Prepping Your House for Market: 5 Areas That Will Make or Break Your Home Inspection

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You have butterflies in your stomach. You can’t decide which perfume to use — flowery and feminine or bold so he knows you mean business. Should you start in the kitchen or go straight upstairs? And should you tell him about that thing in the attic?

You have a date with a house inspector, and you can’t back out now.

Home Inspection

A home inspection is a crucial step in putting your house on the market. Buyers need to collect as much information about the property as possible to be sure they’re investing wisely. And for sellers, a poor prognosis can mean the difference between an easy sale and a long list of costly repairs.

A successful inspection boils down to these five priority areas: … more
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The Space Savers Encyclopedia Infographic

Every now and then we all need help with de-cluttering our homes. When de-cluttering, we often need to identify what to throw out and what to keep? This can be challenging if we love all of our items. But once we decide on what to keep, we need to determine where they go in our homes. There are always great ways to create space savers. Once the decision has been made to remove items, donating or selling the items will help make room for the items being kept.

Storage Tips

Space savers are always important to storing items. How do we work more efficiently in our home with items that have dual solutions or can be stored in unique places? These questions and more are answered in the following infographic from FlexiSpace. The know about storage and work space areas, because it is their core business and what they do best. Take a look at this infographic for some more tips on what to do with the items you have and help define the items that may be sent away.  Read More

Home Maintenance Tip: Inspect Roof

Inspect RoofSummer is the perfect time to inspect your roofs. During the summer, you generally have good weather which makes it safer to climb on ladders and walk the roof. Summer also is the time of year when roofing companies are less busy. So you can get a good rate on using a service company for inspections. Roofs can be damaged by various elements including high winds, heavy snowfalls, tree branches, debris from storms. And if you need to climb on your roof, walking on it could cause damage. Read More

Pool Maintenance Tips to Ensure Safety

HomeZada Open the Pool for the SummerPool season is upon us and there are some facts that need to be understood, as well as, safety tips that anyone either owning or participating in the use of a pool should understand. It is estimated that 300 children younger than five years old drown in swimming pools and spas and more than 3,200 go to the hospital due to pool injuries annually, US Consumer Product Safety Commission.  In pools and spas, hair, jewelry and bathing suits can get caught in drain covers or limbs can get lodged in suction openings.  This causes problems as people and small children get stuck in these situations and some body parts can be held underwater by suction from the filtration systems causing death.

Reviewing your pool’s equipment and surrounding areas can help prevent some of these injuries.  Read More

4 Quick Summer Home Maintenance Tips

HomeZada Inspect the Fence Around the PoolWith plenty of barbecues and pool parties in the near future you know you need to start your summer home maintenance projects. But you just don’t know where to start. HomeZada knows that there are a number of home maintenance tasks to do this summer. All of these tasks will keep your home running efficiently, keep your family safe, plus maintain the value of your home. Here are four simple home maintenance tips for summer. Read More