Posts From Matthew C. Keegan
Documents to Gather For Refinancing Your Home
It is time to refinance your home, what will allow you to lock in a lower rate or opt for a variable interest rate loan that could save you money. Or, you may be looking at the equity in your home and have decided to tap it to make repairs, finish a room, or pay down your debt.
Home Improvement Fraud: What is It?
Just as there are millions of homeowners satisfied with their home improvement projects, there are also thousands of consumers who are unhappy with their own.
Winter Composting: Yes, That’s Right
One of the last things you may be thinking of right now is your compost pile.
6 Ways to Prepare Your Home to Sell This Spring
Spring is still weeks away, what will usher in the prime selling season for homeowners. If you plan to sell your home this spring, there are some steps you can take now to prepare your home for a successful sale later.
8 Smart and Easy Home Cleaning Tips
Keeping your home clean can seem like a challenge. Even more challenging is finding the time to get the work done.
What You Did Not Know About Home Contractors
Tweet That goes the same for the contractor you haven’t hired yet, but think might work out based on some assumptions you have made. General contracting is not rocket science,
5 Tips for Buying a Foreclosure
Tweet Yet, there are hundreds of thousands of homes that are currently in foreclosure with many more expected this year. And if you’re in Florida, Maryland, Illinois, Nevada or Utah,
Aging in Place or Senior Housing: Considerations
Your home is your castle, but as you age it may seem more like a prison than a place to reside. For millions of Americans, the transition from their home to senior housing seems inevitable.
5 Signs of Termites and How to Eradicate Them
Tweet And that would be termite infestation, the top threat to wood-based structures, exceeding the annual damage from fire, floods and wind damage. Fortunately, with regular attention on your part,
Fire Safety Tools & How to Care for Them
Tweet For homes with multiple floors, detectors should be located on each level. A fire extinguisher can be useful too and kept in the kitchen to handle grease fires. You
First Home Considerations and Tips
Tweet While there is room for economic improvement nearly everywhere, first-time home shoppers may find the market approachable with good values and low mortgage rates to be had. The following
How to Survive a Home Renovation Project
Tweet In reality, home renovation projects require much patience and not a little resolve on the part of homeowners. Managing your expectations is essential too as well as showing much
Mother-Daughter Home Considerations
Tweet That other person may be your mother, another relative, a friend, or even a stranger. In these cases you’re considering making your home livable for one more individual, a
Winter Clean Up: Snow, Ice and Yard Care
Tweet It is a pretty scene popularized by Currier and Ives Christmas cards in the 1800s. It is also a scene that may present a big problem for the homeowner
6 Home Preparation Tips for Winter Vacation
Tweet Leaving your home during winter vacation has its own preparation requirements, what you must follow to ensure that your return does not come with one or more surprises. 1.
How to Win a Home Makeover Contest
Tweet Certainly, not everyone that enters these contests will win, but with some pluck on your part and a bit of luck, your pending home renovation project could gain national
How to Save Money on a Home Security System
Tweet And that safety feature is a home security system, what can protect your home from break ins and alert you to a fire or other problem. Home security systems
Prepay Your Mortgage and Own Your Home Sooner
Tweet A mortgage means that someone else has a stake in your home with you holding the remaining stake. You’re only a partial homeowner until that mortgage is paid off,
What You Need to Know About Zero Down Payment Loans
Tweet Prior to the Great Recession zero down payment home loans or mortgages were available, what helped many consumers attain homeownership, people who would might otherwise have been shut out
Get a Handle on Your Home Heating Costs
Tweet Fortunately, there are steps you can take to reduce your heating costs immediately. There are also various low- and high-cost solutions, what you may want to explore as your
