Archive for the 'Real Estate' Category

What Your Home Needs as You Age

As you get older you are probably going to need to add some items to your home. Some of these items will make the home safer for you. Others will make it more comfortable.
Common items that people add to their homes as they get older include:

Stairlifts. It is very common for people with two-story homes [...]

What Couples Fight About When Buying a Home

Buying a home is a difficult endeavor. It requires a lot of decision-making. It can involve a lot of stress. And if you’re trying to do this all with a spouse then it can involve a lot of fighting.
Here’s a look at the most common things that couples fight about when trying to buy a home [...]

My Great Deal

My hot tub is one of pure beauty.  It is a pretty marble design surrounded by redwood.  The redwood is this beautiful rich wood color that has a hint of red to it.  It was not a cheap hot tub in the sense that it was made haphazardly, but it was cheap as in the [...]

House Envy

My husband has what I affectionately call house envy: He’s too quick to compare our house to other people’s… and find it lacking.
For instance, a house around the corner from us sold for a ridiculously good price a year or two after we bought our house.  Part of it was that it was on a busy [...]

Dream versus Reality

My biggest dream is to own horse property.  It’s not the expense of boarding my horse that I protest to — well, not usually — but the fact that I’m not the one providing his care, and that I have to drive 15 minutes each way in order to see him.  Can you imagine if [...]