8 Best Upgrades to Personalize Your New Home
Before you move into your new house, you may want to make upgrades. These add value to your investment, improve your home’s function and allow you to express your personality. Plus, making upgrades before you move in reduces inconvenience later. Consider the following upgrades to make your new house feel like home. <A HREF=”http://rismedia.com/2017/09/04/best-upgrades-personalize-your-new-home/” […]
7 Essentials Every Millennial Needs in Their First Home
More and more millennials are buying homes, representing around 45 percent of all purchase loans, and most first-time millennial homebuyers are on a limited budget. While you may not be able to find the perfect home that checks every box on your dream home list, you can find a home you can improve on or […]
How to NOT Get Scammed by a Contractor
While the majority of contractors are honest professionals, it is still important for homeowners to be aware of possible scammers, frauds or swindlers when hiring a contractor before undergoing a remodel. Consumers should be wary of contractors who ask for money upfront. Click Here for the rest of the story…
Moving With Kids
The information in this report comes from NAR’s Profile of Home Buyers and Sellers, and is about the characteristics of families with children who are buying or selling a home. Forty-nine percent of buyers that have children consider a neighborhood based on the quality of the school districts and 43 percent choose a neighborhood by […]
Home is where the heart is
People of all generations have differing opinions about what their home says about them as a person. For most Americans, owning a home is a sign of success and accomplishment.
9 Ways to Crank Up Curb Appeal with Nothing but Paint
Swept Off Your Feet. Dressing up a plain doormat with paint is one of the easiest ways to dazzle guests at your doorway. Recreate this daring DIY doormat by applying duct tape in vertical stripes to a fiber doormat, then paint the exposed areas of the mat with a playful punch of color. Let the […]
10 Investments to Boost Your Home’s Value
Whether it’s a nice paver walkway or simply adding some color to your planters, keeping your front yard looking fresh is not only inexpensive, but also adds nice curb appeal. In the case of home improvement, a book is always judged by its cover. 1. It tells your neighbors that you take pride in your […]
6 Reasons You Should Never Buy or Sell a Home Without an Agent
It’s a slow Sunday morning. You’ve just brewed your Nespresso and popped open your laptop to check out the latest home listings before you hit the road for a day of open houses. You’re DIYing this real estate thing, and you think you’re doing pretty well — after all, any info you might need is […]
15 Things to Do in San Francisco on Christmas Day
We know the feeling. Here you are on vacation with your family during a major holiday and there’s nothing open. If you have kids, they are impatient because they’re itching to do something or go somewhere. Well, here’s a list of 15 activities to do whether or not you have kids. That’s the day to […]
Looks Can Be Deceiving — Get Your House Thoroughly Inspected
One of my clients was house hunting in a particular, 100-year-old neighborhood in Oakland, Calif. Very stroll-to-the-local-produce-market-esque. We found this lovely little Spanish-style cottage with all the charming detail of the 1920s when it was built, but simply gleaming as though it was in brand-new condition. We walked inside and saw that the home had […]
Top 5 ways to boost the value of your home
This is a great time to be selling a house—or buying one. With housing prices at recent highs (in some neighborhoods they’re exceeding pre-2008 valuations), it’s no wonder about 5.3 million homes are expected to change hands in 2015, up about 30 percent from the bottom of the crash, according to the National Association of […]
Our Favorite Thanksgiving Recipes
How better to celebrate Thanksgiving than to gather friends and family around a feast? For recipe ideas, we gathered 21 of the most popular Thanksgiving recipes as determined by you, the Epicurious reader. So whether you roast a classic Extra-Moist Turkey with Pan Gravy or a take a modernist approach with a Deconstructed Holiday Turkey, […]