Tips & Tricks
14 Hacks You Can Do Now to Make House Cleaning Go Faster
Like rubber gloves for pet hair. Works like a magnet. It's the little things that get you every time. And that goes for your home, too. Stained porcelain, carpets, stinky appliances — they all hurt your home's market value in the end. ...
4 Essential Tips for Buying a Home With a VA Loan, Straight From the Pros
VA loans offer some unbeatable advantages for military home buyers, like $0 down payment, no mortgage insurance, and more lenient credit underwriting. They’re certainly a more specialized loan product, but buying a home with this hard-ear...
10 Gorgeous Kitchen Listing Photos With Hidden Problems: Can You Spot Them?
Surfing real estate listing photos has become one of America’s most popular pastimes, and odds are no rooms get more hearts and starry-eyed emojis than clean, bright kitchens. Who hasn’t pored over listing photos of waterfall islands, g...
What Is the Average Price Per Square Foot for a Home—and Why Does It Matter?
If you’re hoping to buy a house, the very first dollar figure you’ll want to know is the home’s price, of course. But a close second is its cost for each square foot—and the average cost for each square foot for a home in that nei...
What to Expect from Virtual House Tours, Staging, and Showings
The COVID pandemic hasn’t stopped people from buying houses. But it has changed how buyers view homes, with technology sometimes replacing the in-person experience. To help keep everyone safer and comply with state and local guidance, ...
How To Protect Your Home During Storm Season: 8 Preparation Tips for Homeowners
Although the Atlantic hurricane season lasts through the end of November, it typically peaks about now, as seen in the havoc wrought by the recent storms Henri and Ida. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration says storm activity...
Kitchen Cabinets Need a New Look? 7 Savvy Design Tips To Improve Your Storage Space
Fresh paint and new hardware are perfectly fine kitchen cabinet upgrades. But when you want to rehab your cook space, there are plenty of design considerations beyond variations on beige paint samples or the shape of drawer pulls. “The...
7 Things All First-Time Homeowners Get Wrong—and How To Avoid Those Big Mistakes
Like most major milestones in life, becoming a first-time homeowner comes with quite a few learning curves. Even after you close on the house and it becomes officially yours, there’s still a lot to learn when it comes to taking care of th...