Posts in category 'Homeownership'
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Is Your Home Ready for Trick-or-Treaters?
Providing candy for trick-or-treaters is a fun way to feel a part of your neighborhood and provide local kids with a fun experience. Keep the kids safe and happy by ensuring your home is ready for them with these tips from our real estate agents.
- Light up the exterior of your home.
Aside from preventing break-ins and vandalism, ensuring that your home is well-lit on the outside will help keep kids safe. Check all your exterior lights and consider replacing them with higher-watt bulbs for the holiday. If you have path lights, be sure to turn them on. If you won't be home or aren't offering...
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Home Maintenance Tasks by Summer's End
In our region, it's imperative that those end-of-summer maintenance tasks get done before the chill winds blow. Indoors and outdoors, we can easily find tasks that need doing so we can put our property properly "to rest" for the fall and winter. Naturally, that doesn't mean activity ceases within the home you bought from among Franconia homes for sale, but rather that you're shifting with the seasons, battening down the hatches, so to speak, and ensuring all is ready for colder temperatures.
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New Homeowner? 10 Things for Your To-Do List
Summer is here, and it's a great time to get your new house in order. After visiting the Plymouth homes for sale that caught your eye and settling on the one that stole your heart, it's time to roll up your sleeves and get to work. Even if it may not seem like it at first, there are plenty of chores you need to stay on top of as a new homeowner, and the following are 10 tasks you won't want to skip.
- Change. The. Locks.
Our real estate agents cannot emphasize this enough. You have no way of knowing who the previous owner gave keys to over the years. Quite frankly, you don't want to wake up in the middle of the night to find friends of the former owner dropping in for a visit. Always change the locks, reset key codes, and ensure that motion sensors, latches, and other security features are solid and reliable.
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New Homeowners: Find the Perfect Housewarming Gift
Do you know someone who has recently moved into a new home? You may have thought about bringing them a housewarming gift to help them settle in. Our real estate agents love this tradition and think it's a great way to usher people into a bright future in their new space.
Our list of ideas for housewarming gifts in 2022 will help you find the perfect gift for every new homeowner this year.
- Houseplants
Houseplants are classic housewarming gifts: they're inexpensive, long-lasting, and add a cheerful personal touch to any home. Unless you know for certain that the family has no you...