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5 Secrets Your Contractor Doesn’t Want You to Know
How to protect your bottom line. You’ve asked friends to recommend great contractors, picked your favorite, checked references — and maybe even conducted an online background check on their business. So you know you’ve found a top-notch pro for your … Continue reading
10 Best Ways To Protect Your Home
Sometimes the best ways to protect your home are the easiest. Learn how without investing a lot of time or money. IAMZHEM/GETTY IMAGES Never Open Your Door to Strangers When someone comes to your door, do you promptly open it, … Continue reading
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10 Best Ways To Protect Your Home
Sometimes the best ways to protect your home are the easiest. Learn how without investing a lot of time or money. IAMZHEM/GETTY IMAGES Never Open Your Door to Strangers When someone comes to your door, do you promptly open it, … Continue reading
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Tagged protect your home, safe, security
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Extend your Outdoor Living Season
Make an outdoor living area comfy long after the sun sets or the leaves turn with outdoor lighting, a patio heater, and a glowing firepit or portable fireplace. Light the Deck or PatioThe sun sets sooner on your outdoor living … Continue reading
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Tagged community, cozy, deck, electrical, electricity, energy, exterior, Fall, fireplace, fireplaces, fixtures, gas, grill, heat, improve, lawn, light fixtures, lighting, lights, living space, outdoor, outdoor lighting, outside, park, patio, prices, safe, solar, spa, space, stove, style, swimming pool, tree, walkways, water, winter, wiring, wood
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Protect your Home from Wildfires
How do most homes ignite during a wildfire? A floating ember or piece of burning wood touches down on a roof, gutter, in a vent, under a deck, or on a porch and ignites leaves and debris, says the National … Continue reading
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Tagged branches, chemical, chimney, chimneys, deck, fire prevention, gutter, home, homes, house, improvement, invest, lawn, outside, plants, plywood, properties, protect your home, repair, replace, roof, safe, shrubs, siding, trees, vents, water, wildfires, yard
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8 Trick-or-Treat Safety Tips that Every Homeowner Should Know
Some Halloween tricks can really cost you. Plenty of people love a good Halloween scare — as long no one gets hurt. And that includes your house. Hot lights and kids on foot present some real risks to homeowners. Follow these eight tips … Continue reading
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Tagged adult, adults, bright, children, color, creative, custom, decorations, decorative, door, Fall, Halloween, home, house, houselogic, Ice, kids, light, lighting, lights, neighborhood, open, outdoor, paper, plants, pumpkins, safe, Safety tips, scary, security, time, times, weather
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Housing Market Is Feeling Effects of Coronavirus Outbreak
February 6, 2020 The U.S. housing market is feeling the impact of the new coronavirus outbreak from China. Mortgage interest rates have dropped because of it, and the luxury sector has seen Chinese buyers, who had been propelling that market, … Continue reading
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Tagged 30-year, buyers, demand, existing, Fall, housing, housing market, Interest Rate, interest rates, invest, luxury, money, Mortgage, mortgage interest rates, mortgage rates, mortgage rates fall, NAR, national association of realtors, property, real estate, real estate market, report, safe, Sale, Sales, United States, virus, World Health Organization
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Millennials Are Undeterred by Fixer Uppers
Young adult home buyers aren’t afraid to buy a home in need of some major TLC. Sixty-seven percent of millennial home shoppers who participated in a recent Clever Real Estate survey of 1,000 U.S. residents in the market for a … Continue reading
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Tagged adult, affordable, buyers, children, credit, down payment, fixer uppers, home, homeownership, investment, major, married, millennials, Mortgage, neighborhood, owning, prices, renting, repairs, safe, shoppers, space, young
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