While many things have been cancelled because of the COVID-19 crisis, it turns out that the real estate market for buying and selling a home has not. We reached out to one of our favorite agents – Allison Blank of COMPASS – for tips on how to buy or sell a home during the pandemic.
Tag: home management
Restoring Antique (Or Not) Furniture
We all have well loved furniture. Some of it may be antique. Others maybe not. Instead of tossing, why not restore it so it can be used for many years, and possibly generations to come?
Here are our tips on restoring furniture:
Summer Staples: CSAs
We love CSAs. Investing in Community Supported Agriculture is not only a great way to support our local food systems, but is another way of how we can easily access fresh food without having to make a trip into the supermarket.
Here are some of our favorites:
How To Take Care of Outdoor Furniture
Spring is the season where patio furniture makes it’s re-entry into our lives and we couldn’t be happier for it. Meals al fresco. Cocktails during sunset. Reading a new book with and feeling the summer breeze.
We love spending as much time outdoors as possible and know that keeping our patio furniture in tip-top shape is just one way of doing that. Here are our tips to extending the life of your patio furniture so you can enjoy more time outside.
Fini’s Guide to Home Pest Control
Ants. Mice. Bats. What do all three of these have in common? They are all pests that infiltrate our homes. While it’s impossible to completely eliminate pests from our homes, there are things we can do to minimize them.
Virtual Home Organizing
Commonly Overlooked Household Maintenance
Virtual Support Spotlight: Home Organizing
You should always love your home. That is more true now than ever with all of us spending more time at home due to the COVID-19 crisis. We want to help you make your home a place you want to be.
One way to accomplish this is through home organizing. Take some time each day to tackle the clutter and get your kids to help, too!
We will send you organizing tips, conduct virtual organizing sessions together, and provide encouragement to re-organize your home. When the donations pile up or you have a full bag of clothes that you’d like to consign, leave them on your front porch or in your garage, and we’ll swing by and pick them up for you. You’ll feel lighter without ever needing to leave the house.
Ask how we can help with your home organizing projects through our Virtual Support Services.
The Value Of Time: How Much Is Your Time Worth?
Time is the one thing we always want and need more of. Just about anyone you talk to will agree that they would like more time. More time to get work or school projects finished. More time to spend with friends and family. More time to travel. More time to just relax. More time is something we all desire. So, how exactly do we go about getting it?
Home Care & Property Management on Cape Cod
It’s time consuming enough to manage the property you live in, let alone preparing your second home or rental-income property on Cape Cod. We understand wanting to have peace of mind, knowing that your Cape house is properly taken care of and looked after while you are elsewhere. Whether it’s a vacation home or a rental-income property, getting someone else to assist with the tasks of managing those can be key to giving you more time to focus on the things you keep pushing to the back-burner and help you to rest easy with peace of mind.
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