Instead of decorating your home for the holidays, why not buy a new one? While winter is part of the off-season in real estate, many buyers find that it's the perfect time of year to buy the home of their dreams. After all, you'll have a lot more fun decorating a new home than your current one. Here are some reasons we at DFW Properties encourage you to consider buying real estate in the...
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Some home upgrades are aesthetic, and some are for function. These ideas, presented by Sulthar Properties, all with better home safety in mind, show that there's no reason you can't have both.If you tend to think of home safety in strictly functional terms, you may be relieved to know you don't have to abandon your designer sensibilities when it comes to improving your home's overall safety. In fact,...
You may work to reduce your personal carbon footprint by driving less and recycling, but do you consider the footprint of your home? To help, we at DFW Properties present these tips by Four Seasons Plumbing: Buy efficient appliances Appliances are getting more efficient every year, and some have better energy and water-use ratings than others. The energy rating of an appliance is easy to find, and...
Location, location, location. Half of buying a home is all about finding where you want to live. You might've found your dream house, but it's not in your dream neighborhood.So, what should you be watching out for? Here are some tips by DFW Properties on how you can find the perfect neighborhood: Check It Out OnlineAh—the internet. It provides an immense amount of information. It's easy and entirely...
With inventory loosening and prices slowing, buyers' chances look promising—but as mortgage rates rise, how great are their odds, really? According to recently released research by Zillow, provided here by DFW Property Management, home-buying power is shrinking. In the average scenario, where a buyer earns the median national pay, a buyer could have bought a $393,700 home in...
How much does it cost each year to maintain your apartment? For apartment owners, that answer contains two elements: what you pay to buy the place and what you pay each month to carry it. These two factors, in theory, exist on a sliding scale to one another relative to other comparable properties. In other words, if your maintenance is higher than that of everyone else who lives in a property the same...
Many Americans work from home part- or full-time, or snag a few hours to tie up loose ends in the evenings or on weekends. If this sounds like you, here are a few hints to help make your home office more inspiring.While the team at architecturelab.net says that it's essential to design your workspace with productivity as a priority, the trick is finding the balance between keeping your...
January's arrival always brings hope eternal in the heart of homeowners who aim to see their home improvement plans - great or small - accomplished in the New Year. For those working on a man or woman cave - i.e., a space of your own - consider the following ways to make it healthier. Back in 2016, Dr. Brian W. Wu (goodmenproject.com) blogged that the so-called man cave provides a place to temporarily...
Are you looking to make your home a happier, healthier, more efficient, environmentally-friendly and/or more comfortable place to live? You may want to look to your yard. We at DFW Property Management would like to present the tips by healthyyards.org - organized by a team of professional gardeners in southeastern New York - which cite numerous ways to boost the health of your yard, for you, and...
As homeowners, it's important to do your part to minimize your footprint, which -- bonus -- can also save you money in the long run. And in addition to turning off lights when you leave the room, focusing on water consumption is a great way to shrink your environmental impact."Whether it's saving money on utility bills, environmental concerns, or wanting to decrease consumption in general, there are...