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Home Design: 5 Ways To Maximize Space And Style
Home Design tips for small homes. Choosing the best furniture and arrangement, with multifunctional options. Futons, hangers, painting walls. If you live in a small space, it can be difficult finding the right balance of style and affordability for your home design. For students and those just entering their careers, it can be especially tough. [...]
Health Insurance After Retirement – Know Your Options
One of the biggest concerns for someone facing retirement is figuring out how one’s healthcare costs will be covered. Especially in the last few years, there have been a multitude of changes in healthcare costs, benefit options, and pension elections. Your health insurance options will also change depending on your age of retirement and the [...]
FHA 203k Loans For Home Renovations
If you're interested in buying or renovating a home, one of the few loan products remaining is the FHA 203(k) home renovation loan. Q: My husband and I would like to purchase a neighbor's home to remodel and live in. It needs extensive work. I estimate we would pay him roughly $250,000 for the home [...]
Winter Home Maintenance and Weatherproofing Tips
The arrival of winter means we’re bundling up in coats, hats, and scarves, but is your house ready for low temperatures? Here are some easy weatherproofing and winterizing strategies. Add these tips to your winter home maintenance checklist to help keep your home toasty warm and to lower your gas bill. Inspect and maintain home [...]
Using Retirement Savings To Pay For Medical Expenses
When you invest your money into retirement savings you should make every effort possible to not touch your funds until retirement age. IRAs and similar accounts typically come with penalty fees if you withdraw funds before age 59½. Of course, life can throw unexpected curve balls your way. If you find yourself with mounting medical [...]
Home Maintenance Checklist for the Fall
Fall means a lot of things, including going back to school, raking leaves, decorating pumpkins and eating turkey, but in my house, it usually also means home maintenance. It seems like every fall there’s something wrong with my house. A few years ago we had to have the fridge and kitchen sink replaced. This year [...]
Winterizing Your Home Checklist
Winterizing your home checklist from the Better Business Bureau. The Better Business Bureau released their checklist for winterizing your home. Save money in the winter with the Better Business Bureau winterizing your home checklist. Combat high heat costs by winterizing your home. The BBB winterizing your home checklist includes changes to your windows, doors and floors like caulking and weather stripping.
How to Plan for Next Year’s Home Improvement Projects
Do you have a wish list of home-improvement projects? Have you thought about what you’ll be able to afford to do this year and how much it will cost? Over at my house, I’ve been making my list of home improvements and checking it twice. As we end the year, I thought I’d share a [...]
Wood Burning Fireplace or Gas Fireplace Safety At Home
wood burning fireplaces or gas fireplace safety at home. Fireplaces are great on a cold winter night, but be sure you understand fireplace safety at home for a wood burning fireplace or a gas fireplace. Fireplace safety at home may differ between a wood burning fireplace and a gas fireplace. Properly maintain a wood burning fireplace or gas fireplace at home with proper fireplace safety.
Road Warrior Tips: How to Handle an Accident When Traveling on Business
This post was written by guest blogger Linda Rey. Crash! What happens if you get into an accident while traveling on business? Who pays if you get into an accident during a business trip? Will your auto insurance policy take the hit or will your company’s insurance policy cover the damage? If your work takes [...]