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From the candy to the costumes, Halloween is a fun-filled time for kids and parents. To help make it a trick-free treat, follow these simple safety tips. Staying Safe Kids should stay outdoors when trick-or-treating or attending a Halloween gathering. Kids should keep in small groups while walking and when treats are given out. Suggest […]

Although it doesn’t quite feel like it yet, Fall is just around the corner. What better time to start prepping your home for the weather to come? We’ve gathered the most important Fall home maintenance tasks to get you and your home ready for this next season. 1. Purchase a Programmable Thermostat Having a programmable

If you’re looking for a room pick me up, there are two things to consider: – what is your decorating style and – what is your color palette?? Your color palette isn’t necessarily the colors you are currently using in the room you want to give an uplift to. If you’re not sure what your

If this is your year to do some updates or tackle a remodel, you may be wondering what project will add the most value in the long run.   Paint is the most inexpensive and easiest tool in your tool belt for transforming a room, your interior or your exterior. Changing your cabinet hardware in the

We all have our own vision of how we’ll one day retire, from whiling away our days with our grandkids to hitting the pickleball courts every morning, to joining the Rolling Stones on tour (because they will never, ever go away). One dream, however, is common to three quarters of older adults: They want to stay in their current home. For

If you’re looking to buy a home, you may be wondering how your student loan debt could impact those plans. Do you have to wait until you’ve paid off your student loans before you can buy your first home? Or could you qualify for a home loan with that debt? To give you the answers

As we move into 2022, those of you selling as well as those of you buying are wondering, what’s next? Will there be more homes available to buy? Will prices keep climbing? How high will mortgage rates go? For the answer to those questions and more, we turn to the experts. Here’s a look at what they

With forbearance plans coming to an end, many of you that I’ve talked with are concerned the housing market will experience a wave of foreclosures similar to what happened after the housing bubble 15 years ago. Here are a few reasons why that won’t happen. There are fewer homeowners in trouble this time After the

Even though experts agree there’s no chance of a large-scale foreclosure crisis, there are a number of homeowners who may be coming face-to-face with foreclosure as a possibility. And while the overall percentage of homeowners at risk is decreasing with time (see graph below), that’s little comfort to those individuals who are facing challenges today.If you