Nothing brings warmth and personality to a home like living plants, flowers, and herbs.  And for businesses wishing to attract new customers via a professional, personable image, the proper selection of plants, flowers, and shrubs are perfect.  But it’s not the just the fauna; it’s the way it is presented.   Home improvement stores and garden [...]

No less than five times during the past thirteen months, I have had packages left at my door that were actually addressed to my neighbors.  Large and extremely heavy, with the address labels on the undersides, I dragged three of these into our foyer, assuming that we had ordered them.  The same well-known, nationwide carrier [...]

The outer appearance or curb appeal of your home speaks volumes about you, its owner or resident.  It conveys a sense of your relative success, affluence, tidiness, dependability, affability, emotional well-being, and much, much more.  It either invites those visiting or repels them.  And, if you are attempting to sell your home, it dictates who [...]

As a young child who daily anticipated watching The Mickey Mouse Club on our family’s black and white television console in the late 50’s, I could never have imagined that one day I would be paying more than $100 monthly for the privilege of viewing television programming.  No one could.  In those days, the airwaves [...]

Have you ever heard the expression, “Let cool heads prevail?”  Well, yours can be the cool — and safe — head in an emergency, if you plan for that unforeseen situation.  Here’s how to do that:

For power outages, such as those caused by thunderstorms and snowstorms:

1.       Maintain a supply of fresh batteries as well as [...]

In creating a fortress of one’s home, one can take the obvious route of installing a state-of-the-art electronic security system.  Such a system includes devices that detect forced intrusions and simultaneously alerts the local police force of the break-in.  They usually include active, continuous monitoring by professionals.  With a system of this nature, one creates [...]

Most people pursue some type of normal, enjoyable hobby, such as collecting coins, stamps, knick-knacks, stuffed animals, books, or music.  Others take hobbies to a new level, literally.  We are all acquainted with someone into whose home angels fear to tread.  In these domiciles, one cannot see the carpet or the coffee table for the piles of [...]

Purchasing a home in these economic times may seem a fool’s errand. In reality, a sound, long-term investment in real estate is anything but.
 
If you rent an apartment, consider that the roof over your head is never fully secure, as the owner of the property retains the right to request that you to vacate the [...]

The chorus of Arlo Guthrie’s most widely recognized hit states, “You can get anything you want at Alice’s Restaurant.”  Had Arlo waited a few decades to pen that tune, he may have altered it to, “You can get anything you want on the Internet…including real estate!”   Not so long ago, a realtor’s best tool for [...]

Like the Native Americans encountered by America’s pioneer settlers, we are finally learning to take only what we need, and no more, from the land and other vital resources.  In addition to conserving these resources, the process of “going green” delivers cost savings: something that nearly everyone in this crunched economy can appreciate.  For those [...]