How to Prepare Financially for the Purchase of your First Home

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How to Prepare Financially for the Purchase of your First Home

Purchasing a home is one of the biggest purchases you’ll make, so you want to make sure you are prepared. Often times people are ready for the purchase price and down payment of a home but forget about the closing costs. The closing costs can be wrapped up into the mortgage or you can pay out of pocket for them. If you plan to pay out of pocket, that will lead to a slightly lower monthly mortgage. By paying your closing costs up front you won’t be paying interest on them for the life of the loan. So how do you prepare yourself financially for the purchase of your home?

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Hydroponic Herb Jar

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Hydroponic Herb Jar

I never thought I would be writing about plants. I’ve never been good at gardening until recently. It took me a long time to start following the directions such as sun plants like the sun and shade plants like the shade. I always kind of thought all plants liked the sun. So once this clicked, I have found that I really enjoy it. It’s fun to grow something from a seed and see it develop.

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15 Ideas to Increase Curb Appeal Over a Weekend

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15 Ideas to Increase Curb Appeal Over a Weekend

With nicer weather on its way, and more people home due to the quarantine- now is the perfect time to increase your home’s curb appeal. There are lots of things that you can do over a weekend to give your home some extra pizzaz.

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How to Remove Stain from Marble

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How to Remove Stain from Marble

I’ve always heard its not possible to remove stains from marble, so we’ve always kind of steered away from having marble. Until recently. We received a beautiful antique marble table from a friend that needed some work. A couple legs were broken, and the marble was stained. We thought, hey if we can get this piece fixed up it will be gorgeous. So, Vince took on fixing the legs and I tried my luck at lifting the stains out of the marble. I read a couple different methods and tried several recommendations, so I’ll provide my feedback on each.

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How to Get Your Outdoor Space Ready for Summer Entertaining

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How to Get Your Outdoor Space Ready for Summer Entertaining

If you enjoy entertaining outside in the summer, its time to start getting ready now. Prepping the garden, walks, and patio is typically an ongoing project. If you plan out a couple weekends in the spring to tackle the upkeep, you’ll have that backyard oasis by summer.

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Five Tips to Get the Most for Your Home

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Five Tips to Get the Most for Your Home

Selling your home can be tough. Opening your doors to buyers can be overwhelming to say the least. Your home is more than just four walls to be critiqued and picked a part. It can be difficult to hear about what people like and don’t like or what they would change and so forth. So how do you know what buyers want? You don’t, each buyer is going to be different, but there are steps you can take to put your best foot forward. I have created a simple five step checklist to help get your home sold quickly and for top dollar.

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Is Now a Good Time to Buy a Home?

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Is Now a Good Time to Buy a Home?

The impact of the coronavirus has affected everything from stocks, entire industries and small businesses all over the globe. So, what about real estate? If you were planning to buy a home this spring should you postpone that?

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5 Steps to Give Old Furniture New Life

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5 Steps to Give Old Furniture New Life

Furniture is EXPENSIVE, there’s no question about it. So if you like a piece but don’t like the color or fabric, there are definitely ways around it. ⁣What better way to get a custom piece of furniture than to do it yourself? ⁣

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Shopping for the Shop

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Shopping for the Shop

When it comes to finding cool items, we find them everywhere. We find neat pieces at properties, auctions, Craigslist or sometimes people give us things they no longer have a use for. If a piece has history or character I feel like you can always make it work. There is just something about restoring an item that makes it special.

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iBlinds Review

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iBlinds Review

We are super excited to be partnering with iBlinds to try their automated blind! We received the box this week and had the opportunity to get it all set up and tested. We’ve never had automated blinds before, so this was our first go at it.

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