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      With so much time spent in the home today, designing for family living is more important than ever. Gone are the days of creating rooms that are off limits to everyone but "company," with fabrics that aren't allowed to crease and breakables everywhere you look. Instead, homeowners today are...
02/01/2015
    For many first-time buyers, buying a home can be a scary experience. They know they'll be maintaining or improving a home with little to no maintenance experience, so the solution is to buy a home in perfect condition. So they hire a home inspector to point out all the flaws. The problem is ...
02/01/2015
    Power outages can happen at any time. Aside from the discomfort of living without electricity, refrigerated or frozen food items may spoil if power is out for a number of days. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recommends taking the following precautions when an outage occurs. Use a...
01/31/2015
      Are you listing your home this year? Better call a stager, says the National Association of REALTORS®. According to NAR’s 2015 Profile of Home Staging, REALTORS® believe that buyers offer between 1 and 5 percent more for a home that’s staged. That percentage, some Realtors® believe, can be ...
01/31/2015


Toward the end of last year's tax filing deadline, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced that more than $760 million in unclaimed refunds would disappear after April 15 – so many dollar bills that, if stacked, they would reach higher than 187 Empire State Buildings! A larger portion of t...
01/31/2015
01/27/2015
    A while back, the legal department of the California Association of Realtors®(CAR) released a memorandum dealing with the portion of landlord-tenant law that relates to the subject of pets and animals. It provides useful information for both landlords and tenants, as well as for real estate a...
01/27/2015
    Most conversations about storage, and about moving up, for that matter, make us think about George Carlin. If you haven't seen his "stuff" rant, you should definitely check it out (there may be a bad word or two). He has a point, and yet…we still need more room to put our stuff. And since we ...
01/27/2015
      Almost 5 million refrigerators shipped in the early half of 2014, reports Statista, and with the advances in kitchen technology, sales of smart refrigerators are expected to reach almost $3 billion globally in 2015. This means, if you are looking for a refrigerator this year, you aren't the...
01/27/2015
  Life events can have a profound effect on insurance needs. The Insurance Information Institute (I.I.I.) advises policy holders to conduct an annual review of their coverage to assess any changes that could affect their financial footing. Talk to your insurance provider about any or all of the f...
01/27/2015
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