Finance
Reviewing Your Homeowners Insurance Policy
If you have completed one or more significant home improvement projects, chances are that you have increased the replacement cost of your home. The market value of your home may not have appreciated, but certainly the cost of building an exact duplicate of your home has increased. You probably want to [...]
Home Improvement Investments that Make Cents
The Washington Post published an article entitled Projects that Pay that provides recommendations on home improvement projects that give the most bang for your buck at the $1,000, $10,000, and $20,000 thresholds.
$1,000
Painting- On a per Dollar basis, painting is perhaps the most potent small-scale home improvement project. If you do [...]
How to Lower Your Home’s Real Estate Tax Assessment
Have you ever gone into your jurisdiction's real estate assessment database? (If not, Google "[Your City/County] Real Estate Tax Assessment".) When you compare you home to other similar homes in your neighborhood, does your assessment seem a little high? If it doesn't, congratulations. If it does, there may be some things you [...]
8 Ways to Save Money at Home Depot and HomeDepot.com
A do quite a bit of shopping at Home Depot. Over the years, I've learned a few ways to occasionally trim my home improvement material costs. Besides the scrap wood bin (which I check regularly), here are a few ways to save at Home Depot and HomeDepot.com.
1. Register (for free) at homedepotmoving.com (this is [...]
Saving Receipts to Document Increases in Your Home’s Cost Basis
As you work through your home improvement projects, are you saving all of your receipts and invoices? If your not, you should be. Many of the things that you purchase can be added to the cost basis of your home.
What is cost basis and why is it important? The basis of property [...]
