10 Tips to Ace Your Home Inspection

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Getting the great offer is only the beginning. Holding onto it is another thing entirely. In fact, it’s so difficult that the current failure rate for real estate contracts is nearly 30 percent. Most offers are contingent on a professional home inspection that scrutinizes every system from roof to cellar. The results of inspections can […]

Deja-Vu Decor

Wallpaper - What's New is Old in Home Decor

The line between Hopelessly Outdated and Wonderfully Current is indeed blurring. So you can stop checking your vision.

Top 3 Rules for Adding Value to Your Home

Updated Kitchen

Adding Value to Your Home There are plenty of remodels that can make your house more attractive to future buyers – and appraisers! But not all of them are no-brainers financially. Feel free to discard articles that tell you that a new kitchen will, guaranteed, increase your value – or really any article that tells […]

7 Ways to Afford the Bigger House, Bigger Yard

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If every house on the market appreciates at the same level, how is a person ever to afford the bigger house? Resort to bank robbery? Well, not to put a damper on the traditional bank robbery method, but there are ways to get that second bath, third bedroom, or larger yard that don’t involve a […]