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Living in a ground-floor apartment or condo presents advantages and challenges. Here’s what to consider when you’re choosing whether to go up or down.

Is a Ground-Floor Apartment or Condo Right For You? Is a ground-floor apartment right for you, or would you be happier higher up? Here’s what to consider in making your decision.

Built-in firepits can be a great spot for entertaining. Do you find this outdoor space inviting or too cold?

Mantels are a terrific place to give your home personality and style. Check out this guide to decorating a mantel.

How to Decorate a Marvelous Mantel You may already decorate the mantel for the holidays, but your mantel is a perfect place to exercise your creativity year round.

Are you bewildered by your local home improvement store's array of white paints? Here’s a guide to choosing the "right white" for your home.

How to Choose the Right White Paint White paint might seem the simplest choice for painting your home’s walls, but it’s anything but. Here are some tips.

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Buying a rental property with existing tenants subjects you to legal and financial obligations. Read up before you buy.

Buying Rental Property With Existing Tenants If you’re buying rental property with existing tenants, you’re also taking on important legal obligations. Here’s what you need to know before you buy.

Be sure to include the family in your curb appeal projects when prepping your home for sale. It will give everyone a vested interest and make things easier.

Selling your home sometimes necessitates selling furniture and accessories for proper staging. Doing this with consignment stores can bring fast cash and the thrill of the sale. Here’s how it all works.

Selling Furniture and Accessories On Consignment Whether you are downsizing or just want new furniture, selling existing furniture and accessories on consignment can make some money while decluttering.

Make sure to forward all your mail through the Postal Service in a timely fashion. This will avoid costly late fees from outstanding bills. Here are some more important things to remember when moving.

Things to Remember During a Move Selling a home and moving is expensive. No need to further add to your expenses by making costly mistakes. Here’s a handy checklist to keep you from incurring extra costs. Talk to your bank. Let a representative know you’re moving and make sure you’ve canceled any automatic payments on your ol...

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Found your dream home? Great! Uh-oh...it's in a flood zone? Be sure to figure in the cost of additional flood insurance in your monthly payments. Here are some more things to consider before taking the plunge.

Dream Home Flood Zone You’ve been shopping for a home and believe you’ve found it, the home of your dreams. It’s the perfect size, the style of architecture you love and a place to raise your family. Then you find out it’s in a flood zone. What does that mean in terms of risk, insurance and resale? Should you [.....

Brightly colored flowers against the backdrop of fresh mulch can do wonders for your yard's curb appeal when selling.

Your knees went weak when you opened this year’s tax appraisal notice on your home. What will it mean for your taxes, and what can you do about it?

What To Do When Your Property Tax Appraisal Jumps What will these higher appraisals mean for property taxes in the future? What can you do if you think your appraisal is too high?

Heavy frames and mirrors require special fasteners and techniques to hang safely. Learn all the essentials in this handy tutorial.

Helpful Tips for Hanging Heavy Artwork Hanging small pictures doesn’t require a lot of skill or heavy duty hangers. But anything weighing in at more than 10 pounds, and especially more than 25 pounds, requires hefty fasteners and much more caution. When hanging something heavy, it’s always preferable to locate a wall stud behind the ...

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One of the biggest delights about living in the country is the incredible number of stars you can see when you no longer must contend with city light pollution. Here is a handy guide to some celestial delights that will send you over the moon.

Country Life Brings Star-Filled Skies One of the many delights of country living is the number of stars you can see at night away from city light pollution.

Even if you don’t have a big front porch you can still make your entryway impressive with planters full of seasonal color.

Today’s kitchens often feature open shelving instead of upper cabinets. The possibilities for these shelves are endless, but that may be the problem. How do you create an Instagram-worthy design on open shelving? Here’s a how-to guide.

Styling Kitchen Open Shelves Open shelving presents opportunities both to store and to display. Here’s what you need to know about styling kitchen open shelves.

Even pet-loving buyers may be turned off by lingering pet odors and damage. Check out this guide to prepare your pet and your house for showings.

Pet Friendly Tips for Your Home Sale When pet owners put their homes up for sale, it’s best to make those beloved animals disappear without a trace. The dog beds, the cat crates, the hair, the chew marks and the smell all need to be removed before the first showing. Here’s a step-by-step guide on selling your home with pets.

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Renting your first apartment, or in between homes and it's been a while? Before signing the lease, read all the fine print to keep landlord-tenant relations smooth.

Six Things Every First-Time Renter Should Know Don’t forget to read the fine print on your lease. That’s where you’ll find the details of your responsibilities as a first-time renter.

When moving into your new home, before you unpack your first box, make your bed. You will glad you did after a long day of unpacking.

Building a fence is one of the most gratifying (and tiring!) DIY projects. Most homeowners can do it. Here’s how.

You Can Build Your Own Fence With the right materials, a little geometry and plenty of gritty work, you can build your own fence. Let’s get building.

Listing your home in the summer has it's challenges. Be sure to keep that lawn green with proper fertilizing and water!

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An open house tour is a great way to get the feel of a home, but don't forget to also check for hidden problems - like water damage. Here's a good list of additional things to consider.

Open House Checklist Open houses are a great opportunity to check out a home and ask a lot of questions. Make the most of your touring by paying attention to these important factors. The neighborhood. Take a lap or two through the neighborhood and even the wider community surrounding it before you even set foot in the h...

For the look of a new kitchen without a full renovation, consider updating your cabinets with new paint and hardware.

You may have popcorn ceilings in that fixer-upper you bought. Here’s how to smooth out that dated look once and for all.

How to Remove a Popcorn Ceiling You can probably get rid of a textured ceiling if you’re willing to put in the time and elbow grease. Here’s how to remove a popcorn ceiling.

Azaleas make a great pop of color for summer curb appeal. Have you included them in your landscape?