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Housing used to be a fairly safe investment — you put your money in and, in a few years when it was time to sell, your house would be worth more than you paid for it. Unfortunately, many ...
Only a few years ago, environmentally sensitive home products were hard to find and even harder to afford. But as energy prices have risen and the green movement has become more mainstrea...
A walk down any big-box store’s cleaning products aisle will tell the story: It’s evident by the noticeable increase in “green” cleaning products available that people are becoming more c...
Searching for a cleaning product nowadays can be a complicated matter. All sorts of different specialized cleaners line the shelves, each promising a unique cleansing benefit for your hom...
As real estate markets across the country deal with sluggish sales and plunging prices, many people who, just a couple of years ago, might have decided to sell a smaller home to move to a...
When Dr. Randy Pausch gave his famous “last lecture” in September of 2007 at Carnegie Mellon University, he talked about the creative space his parents gave him when he was a teen, lettin...
Postwar bungalows and midcentury ranches fill much of the prime downtown residential areas in Huntsville, AL, a thriving city of 350,000 people. The housing market hasn’t taken the hit th...
Safety is an important consideration in any home renovation, but when children live in a home under reconstruction, keeping them out of harm's way isn't as simple as it may seem. Kids are...
If you’re looking for extra space to expand your home and haven’t considered the basement, you’re missing out on the possibilities of this perennially underrated room. Long relegated to u...
It was an unsuccessful attempt to downsize for a smaller house payment that led Joseph Cortez, a realtor in Corpus Christi, TX, to become a landlord. “My wife and I started building a hou...
