Posts with tag 'for owners'
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Homeowners: How Safe is Your Wood Deck?
When looking at Plymouth homes for sale, one thing you'd love to have is a deck in the backyard. You can spend summers relaxing, barbecuing, and even hosting parties. Before you do that, though, it's important to ensure it's safe. Especially if your deck is older, it may have damage that would make it unsafe.
Fortunately, May is Deck Safety Month, the perfect time to inspect your deck and make sure it's safe and make any necessary repairs. Here's what you should look for.
- Rotting
Especially if your deck isn't properly seal...
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How to Prep for a Vegetable Garden
Whether you're newly moved into the house you acquired from among Berlin homes for sale or Jackson homes for sale, or you've been there a while, and it's the first chance you've had to start a vegetable garden—this is the time to get going. No matter what the weather this spring, there are things you can do to prepare for planting.
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5 Tips for a Lasting Christmas Tree
If you celebrate Christmas, you know there's nothing like putting up a live Christmas tree for the holidays. Your home is filled with wonderful, fresh scents, and your family can't wait to decorate the tree. Our real estate agents know that a live Christmas tree adds beauty to any home, so we have five tips to keep your tree looking fresh throughout the holidays.
- Purchase Your Tree from a Local Farm
During the holi...
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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.