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What Does Flood Insurance Cover?
Did you know that by the year 2050, the number of properties in the United States at a significant risk of flooding is expected to climb to 16.2 million?
Renovating Your Home? Be Careful About These Things
There is no denying that home renovation can be quite challenging and daunting, especially when it’s your first time.
Standard Homeowners Insurance – How Are You Protected
Most homeowners take out home insurance just as a matter of routine without bothering to really find out and understand the extent of cover. This lack of knowledge inhibits their ability to extract the best from their investment when the occasion does arise.
Home Improvement Fraud: Cautions and Risks
Tweet Typically, scam artists show up in greater numbers following a storm, particularly one that leaves homes and properties damaged. This summer, flooding and wind damage have taken place across
FHA Lending Changes to Affect Consumers
Consumers shopping for a mortgage will soon find that the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) is instituting several changes in a bid to manage and protect its own single-family insurance program.
Flood Damage and Home Repairs
Following a devastating flood, homeowners may wonder if rebuilding is worthwhile especially if they live in a flood zone. Only with FEMA-backed flood insurance can total loss be avoided.
Derecho Recovery and Homeowners Insurance
The word “derecho” may not be part of most people’s vocabulary, but it is a word you heard often over the past week. It is a Spanish word that is pronounced “day-ret-cho” and means right or straight, the type of winds that pummeled states from Ohio to Virginia.
Just Renovated Your Home? You Might Need Better Contents Insurance
So you’ve just renovated your house or flat, made it into a home of which you can be proud and increased its market value. What could possibly go wrong?
Renovating? Make Sure Your Home Insurance has You Covered.
Tweet Castle Cover House Insurance With the UK housing market remaining precarious, many homeowners who are struggling to sell their homes are choosing to stay put and improve their properties
How to Keep Your Renovation Project on Target
Tweet 1. Plan to succeed – No one plans to fail, but you aren’t planning to succeed if your project hasn’t been clearly defined. This means making use of design
Can You Handle Being Your Own General Contractor?
You’re skilled enough to handle many of the tasks needed to get done around your home, but not everything.
Home Renovation Safety
Tweet While DIY home renovations can be a good way to save money in these tough economic times, failing to take proper safety measures or complete the work “to code”
7 Insurance Tips for Homeowners
Tweet If you’re planning a home renovation or have recently completed an update or addition to your home, your homeowners insurance should be reviewed to make sure that it covers
Outbuildings and Your Property
Tweet However, garages are just one of many structures homeowners may have on their property, buildings which can add value to the property and provide a place of respite or
Steps to Consider Before Installing a Swimming Pool
Installing a swimming pool can add value to your home and offer countless hours of entertainment and relief from hot weather. Swimming pools can also prove expensive, requiring extensive changes to your yard before a pool can be installed.
5 Steps to Finding a Home Contractor
As you plan to undertake your home improvement project, one person will have a profound impact on how your job is handled from start to finish. And that person is your general contractor, the man or woman you’ll be hiring to oversee construction, pull together sub-contracators, order materials, pay workers and handle a myriad of other details.
