News – Page 154

Spring Ahead on Sunday March 8th

Daylight saving time (DST) or summer time is the practice of advancing clocks during summer months by one hour so that light extends into the evening hours—sacrificing normal sunrise times. Typically, users of DST adjust clocks forward one hour near the start of spring and adjust them backward in the autumn to “normal” or regular time.

Learn More about Daylight Savings Time

Communication in your Association

Communication is essential for the harmony of your homeowner association. Do you have a regular newsletter that is informative and timely? Is it worth reading? More often then not, most newsletters are “throwaways”. It doesn’t need to be that way. With a bit of imagination, they could be both informative and fun to read.

How’s Your Association?

Are the Suburbs going out of style?

Are you out of style? If you live in the suburbs, you just may be.

At least that’s what a new report from Portland, Oregon-based think tank City Observatory said.

People have typically moved out to the suburbs for a few key reasons: more house for the money; the possibility of better public schools; a more family-focused environment; a yard for the dog. The tradeoff is more time spent commuting, less time at home. For many, it’s worth it. But that might be changing.

“Downtown is coming back. Just look at Charlotte, Oklahoma City and Milwaukee—classic examples of U.S. cities where the well-to-do chose to live in the suburbs,” said Bloomberg in a story on City Observatory’s report. “Now they are among the most vibrant U.S. city centers.”

Click Here to Learn More

6 Home Selling Tips for Winter

It’s true that many home shoppers stop looking during the winter, and there are several reasons why. Some don’t want to go on home tours when the roads are slick, others want to wait until more homes come on the market in spring, and many don’t want to change their children’s school mid-year. However, those who do need a home during the winter season are the most serious, often looking to move because they need to, not because they want to. This can put the seller in an advantageous position if they are flexible with the timing.

See 6 Home Selling tips for the Winter

How to Install Laminate Floor

Laminate flooring has the same great look as wood flooring and installation is easy with an array of styles and colors. For this project you will need laminate flooring, a jigsaw, a circular saw, miter saw, spacers, weights, a tapping block, dead blow hammer, pull bar, a tape measure, a pencil, a utility knife, a level, wood glue, silicone sealant and transitions/moldings.

Click Here to see How it’s Done

Go Where Starbucks Goes

Deciding where to buy a home can be one of the most difficult decisions to make. If you have a built-in reason to choose one area over another (it’s close to work; it’s where you grew up and you’re emotionally tied to it; there’s a rumor about a professional football team coming soon), it can be easier. But for the rest of us, a multitude of factors can make the choice challenging.

So how do you know where to buy if you’ve got value in mind? Here are a couple schools of thought.

Click Here for 2 more ways to choose…

Breakfast Nooks

A breakfast nook is one of the most desirable features for today’s families, serving as the ideal spot for casual meals, homework, art projects, meal planning, and catching up at the end of the day.

“Whether you’re drinking your orange juice and reading on a bleary-eyed weekday or gathering with the whole family for pancakes on Saturday, a breakfast nook is an ideal place to start your day,” said Houzz.

“A mix of built-in booths, banquettes, chairs, tables curved or rectilinear, dimmable light and throw pillows makes for cozy spots where you can get a jump on things. Breakfast nooks also work hard the rest of the day as homework stations and intimate spots for candlelit dinners.”

Learn More about changing your kitchen

Bistro Breakfast Burger

Use a gentle hand when forming the patty; you want it to be tender and juicy, not dense. After stacking the burger patty on the bun with the cheese, return to the oven for 1 to 2 minutes to get a gooey melt, and then resume building your burger.

Click Here to get the Recipe

Is Zillow’s Zestimate Accurate?

A couple of weeks ago real estate columnist Kenneth Harney reignited a heated real estate conversation about the use and value of “Zestimates” — the automated property value estimates that appear alongside otherwise objective property information provided by Zillow, the dominant real estate information site on the Web.

Throughout the real estate community agents complain about these Zestimates, which — despite Zillow’s disclaimers — are often taken as gospel by both buyers and sellers. (Typically, of course, the Zestimate is accorded such status when it happens to support the position of the concerned principal. Buyers quote Zillow when the Zestimate is low, Sellers when it is high.)

Agents around the country have weighed in on comment posts and the blogosphere. Some say Zestimates are consistently too high, some say too low, and some say they are just too often erroneous — giving both low and high valuations.

Spring Ahead on Sunday March 8th

Learn More about Daylight Savings Time

Communication in your Association

How’s Your Association?

Are the Suburbs going out of style?

Click Here to Learn More

6 Home Selling Tips for Winter

See 6 Home Selling tips for the Winter

How to Install Laminate Floor

Click Here to see How it’s Done

Go Where Starbucks Goes

Click Here for 2 more ways to choose…

Breakfast Nooks

Learn More about changing your kitchen

Bistro Breakfast Burger

Click Here to get the Recipe

Is Zillow’s Zestimate Accurate?

Click Here to Learn More

Happy President’s Day

Learn the History of Presidents Day

Recent Posts

STAY IN TOUCH