Do you own a vacation home? Are you thinking about buying one of these in the near future? If so, you know just how important it is to treat this property just the same as your primary home. Since you don’t live in the home year round and you may rent it out to others, […]

Last week, we shared a blog post entitled “5 Things you Should Buy at an Estate Sale.” While you have the right to buy whatever you want at an estate sale, some items receive more attention than others. Number one on that list was “furniture.” Not only is older furniture often times better, thanks to […]

Sixty-seven percent of American homeowners are planning a home renovation project in the second half of 2014, a May Realtor.com survey found. Twenty-two percent of these cited preparing their home for sale as their reason for renovation, and 20 percent of all respondents planned to list their homes for sale before the end of the […]

Like most, you probably have an idea of what an estate sale has to offer. Think about it as a garage sale on steroids. What you may not know is that some items are worth buying at an estate sale, while others are best overlooked for one reason or another. In this article, we are […]

By Daniel Sanders Every estate sale you attend, regardless of the size or the items available, is sure to be exciting on some level. Even if you don’t make a purchase, simply attending an estate sale is enough to put a smile on your face. With that being said, there is nothing more enjoyable than […]

You’ve thought it over for months and you just made your final decision: it’s time to downsize. If you are moving into a smaller home, chance are good that with downsizing will come lots of sorting, donating and tossing of at least some of your things. The following tips can help to make the entire […]