Owning your own home can seem like a huge, important milestone for any woman, but your journey won’t be complete until you turn that house into a home. Making a home is a lifelong journey that involves careful decorating and filling it with memories. Your home needs to be a safe, comfortable place for you to relax in after a hard day’s work, and where you can grow and thrive. To start this journey, follow these tips to making your first house into your home: Before Your Move In There are … [Read more...]
How to choose the best place to live
At certain points in your life, you find that you are a free agent and that the world is your oyster. With the freedom to choose where you want to live and where you want to work, it's difficult to know what factors to bear in mind before you make a decision that could have implications for the rest of your life. While it's easy to let inertia simply push you towards a big-name city, the place where you studied at college or the town where you grew up and still have most of your friends, … [Read more...]
15 Top Tips to Winter-Proof Your Home
Winter will be here before you know it. You must therefore take the steps to prepare your home for the colder months. To help you do so, we have accumulated some top tips to help you enter a warm and inviting home each day. Find out how to winter-proof your home. Maintain Your Roof It only takes one missing or cracked tile to allow rain to enter your home, which can cause damp or rot. It is therefore important to maintain and repair your roof to protect your property. However, don’t climb … [Read more...]
House Flipping in 2017: Is it Still a Good Business Idea?
House flipping has long been a favorite method of starting out for those looking to build a property portfolio and make reasonably quick profits, sometimes on relatively modest investments. As the housing market crash of 2008 moves further away in the rear-view mirror many budding investors are asking themselves whether house flipping still makes good business sense. In the immediate aftermath of the crisis, cheap property was easy to find. Almost 10 years on, however, and it now requires a … [Read more...]