Posts From Matthew C. Keegan
How to Get Out of Home Refinancing Debt
Your home improvement project was a spectacular success, enabling you to complete your update with time and money to spare. Your modified home is a delight, promising to give you years of satisfaction.
7 Smart Ways to Keep Your House Cool
Invariably, the first heat wave of the season will hit and mostly everyone you know will be taken by surprise. But not you.
Close the Deal: Home Buyer Essentials
Every home owner that has listed his house for sale would like to have a qualified buyer step forward as soon as possible in the listing process. The longer a home stays on the market, the harder it is for it to sell.
Interior Decorator: Hire One or Not?
You are planning a major makeover for the inside of your home, a sizable investment that you hope will yield a more cozier living environment.
Rent-to-Own Sheds: Bargain or Not?
It is a fact: if you need a new shed for your yard, you can either pay cash or you can finance your purchase.
Building Contents Insurance: Make That List
When shopping for homeowners insurance you will insure the value of your home in addition to what is inside. The “inside” represents your building content or the personal items you bought including furniture, computer equipment, clothing, televisions and gadgets.
Home Cleaning Tips For A Quick Work
Who likes to clean house? Not too many of us, but it is a project that needs to get done. Fortunately, if you schedule a thorough cleaning once each season, you can make your regular clean ups a breeze. And any method that gets the job done sooner rather than later should be embraced.
How to Speed Up the Composting Process
Your compost pile is well stocked and is regularly replenished with kitchen scraps, lawn cuttings and ground up leaves. But there is one problem: you don’t have enough composted material ready to supply your extensive garden footprint through the summer.
Growing Tomatoes: Tips and Tricks
Warmer weather means vegetable gardens are taking hold, with peas, radishes, spinach and turnips among the first vegetable to be harvested.
Home Refi With Money Back
If you are considering refinancing your mortgage, you likely have been paying attention to mortgage rates.
Make the Most of Your Garden Shed
You’ve finished your hoeing, digging and raking, and are ready to return your tools to storage.
Urban Gardening and Raised Beds
Its a dilemma that all green-thumbed urban dwellers face: how to make use of limited outdoor space to grow a meaningful garden.
You Can Trim Your Garden With Pine Needles
If you live where pine trees are in abundance, the needles that naturally fall to the ground can be gathered up and repurposed.
Summer Lawn Care Tips and Tricks
As spring gives way to summer, homeowners will need to do what it takes to keep their lawns looking green and clean.
How to Care For a Newly Planted Tree
Planting a new tree in your yard is half the work. The other half is ensuring that it grows and thrives where you planted it.
7 Home Water Conservation Tips
Water shortages have been felt the world over, offering a frightening glimpse locally on what could happen if we do not manage our water distribution network carefully.
5 Lawn Sprinkler System Maintenance Tips
It can cost homeowners thousands of dollars to have a lawn sprinkler system installed, with hundreds more spent on repairs when something goes wrong. That, “something goes wrong” can best be avoided by caring for this system on a regular basis.
Yard Care: Managing Water Usage
Review your water bill in the warmer months and your eyes may bulge out of your sockets. That’s because you’ve been using hundreds of extra gallons per month to maintain the pool, tend to your garden beds and to maintain the lawn.
Home Shopping, Property and Yard Upkeep
Home shoppers place a large importance on the size and look of a home as well as its location. Both attributes are significant, but may overlook something else that can also be of importance: the yard.
Cautions About Taking a Reverse Mortgage
When it comes to reverse mortgages, reading the contract’s fine print is important.
