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Posted on 09/02/2020

Three Essential Design Tips for New Homeowners

Photo by Khiem Tran via Pixabay Designing a home can be intimidating, especially if it's your first time. Maybe you were a design aficionado with the perfect dorm room, but designing a whole house seems intimidating. Maybe you're worried you have no feel for design at all and will leave your room an empty canvas with one, central...

Design Tips

Design

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Posted on 08/26/2020

Common Plumbing Problems

Image by Rudy and Peter Skitterians from Pixabay There are many responsibilities that come with homeownership. One important aspect to monitor and maintain is your plumbing system. With any system that is used daily, problems will arise from time to time. The earlier issues are identified, the quicker and simpler they can be to resolve. Here are a...

Plumbing

Plumbing Tips

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Posted on 08/19/2020

Maryland Disclosure Laws and Latent Defects in As-Is Purchase

Image by succo from Pixabay As with every state, Maryland has disclosure laws that you must abide by when you sell your home. When you are ready to list your home, you naturally make it look as good as possible. You might even do some upgrades or some extra landscaping. However, if you don’t repair certain defects, you...

Home Seller

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Posted on 08/12/2020

4 Common Home Seller Mistakes

Photo by Mohamed Hassan via Pixabay If you're like many Americans, your home is your biggest asset. And if you're thinking of selling your home to use the profits for a new home, sending the kids off to college or simply adding it to a retirement fund, there are a few things you may want to avoid to...

Home Seller

Selling

Posted on 08/05/2020

Stay Aggressive During the Home Selling Journey

The real estate market offers no guarantees for house sellers. Thus, even if your home boasts lots of great features and is available at an appealing price, there is no guarantee that your residence will sell quickly. Ultimately, a home seller must act aggressively to promote his or her residence to the right groups of buyers. With an aggressive...

Tips On Selling

Selling Your Home

Posted on 07/29/2020

Refresh Your Patio Furniture with Paint

Image by MikesPhotos from Pixabay The bistro table and chairs or patio set that welcomed your guests to gather outdoors and gave your porch a pop of color is now less than beautiful with its peeling paint and orange-brown crust. Your outdoor space deserves a freshening up and the best way to go about it for both your...

Paint

Painting Tips

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Posted on 07/22/2020

DIY: Air Conditioning Unit Cover

Image by Deedster from Pixabay Lattice on a fence around your garden or as paneling alongside your porch or carport lends an ambiance that utilitarian wood structures can’t quite render: a romantic, charming frame to showcase outdoor features. Consider using your spare pieces of lattice to hide a large, whirring metal air conditioning unit. Get creative with shapes...

HVAC

Exterior

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Posted on 06/10/2020

Make your Property Attractive to Multiple Generations

Photo by Luis Quintero from Pexels While the millennial generation (people born between 1980 and 1989) accounts for the majority of homebuyers today, the other generations--both older and younger--cannot be discounted. Aging Baby Boomers (those born between 1946 and 1964) and up-and-coming Gen Yers (those born between 1990 and 1998) are still forces to be considered when marketing...

Seller Tips

Home Sellers

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Posted on 05/26/2020

Pre-Qualification and Pre-Approval: Two Different Steps

Photo by Tayeb Mezahdia via Pixabay When you start looking for your dream home, you need to know how much mortgage you will qualify for. Your real estate agent might ask you to get a pre-qualification letter. However, just because you are pre-qualified doesn’t mean that you will get the loan. You need a pre-approval for that, and...

Buying A Home

Preapproved

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Posted on 05/19/2020

Home Equity Explained

Buying your first home is a big decision; one that involves a lengthy process of saving money, building credit, and planning the next phase of your life. However, owning a home comes with one major payoff: home equity. Simply put, home equity is the amount of your home that you’ve paid off. However, it does get more complicated when...

Home Equity

Buying A Home

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Posted on 05/13/2020

Common-Interest Housing

Image by Free-Photos from Pixabay Common-interest housing includes individually owned spaces and common areas shared by all owners. The common areas can include clubhouses, landscaping, parking lots or pools. Multistory buildings share lobbies, stairwells, and elevators. Any community that shares property including single-family free-standing homes in developments, falls into the common-interest category. The two most familiar types of...

Condo

Buying A Home

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Posted on 05/10/2020

The Benefits of Gardening Indoors

Image by vistawei from Pixabay Did you know people are generally happier when they have something to nurture and tend to in life? That’s right. Taking care of plants can make you a happier person and improves your sense of well-being, which in and of itself might be motivation enough to start an indoor garden. If you need...

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