Home Improvement
Writing Off Moving Expenses as a Tax Write-Off
Moving in any capacity is often an enormously inconvenient expense. One seemingly-intuitive solution, especially for those moving for professional reasons, is to write off these necessities in your taxes. Simple enough, or so one would think. What moving expenses are tax write-offs? Unfortunately, beginning in 2017, the requirements for what counts as legal tax write-offs
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10 Exciting Detroit Activities
Considering a move to Detroit? Well, you’re in luck. Detroit is not only an affordable place to live, but it’s also full of exciting historical and outdoorsy activities. Detroit is an American midwestern city known for its music, cars, history, and sports. As the largest city in Michigan, Detroit provides a variety of outdoor recreation
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How to Move Appliances Across the Country
Moving across the country is a big undertaking. You not only have to pack and transport all your belongings, but also take an inventory of everything you own, deep clean the house, and coordinate with your moving company. And in the middle of all that, you need to figure out what to do with everything
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How to Safely Move Plants Across Country
If you’re a plant owner and moving to a different state, you might want to take your plants with you. After all, you’ve put a lot of love and care into them. But do you know how to move plants across the country legally and safely? We have some suggestions to help you figure it
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How to Downsize for Retirement
Home downsizing is an increasingly popular trend among retirees. Moving into a smaller home, possibly in an entirely new city or state, offers many financial and lifestyle advantages for those saying goodbye to the working world. Here are the top tips for how to downsize for your retirement home. Develop Clear Goals Downsizing is when
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Garage Sales before a Move
Moving is about new chances and opportunities. Whether you’re moving for a career path, to experience a new city, or because you just got married, the newness and excitement are ever-present. We understand a lot of planning and preparation go into executing a move. Amid all the hustle and bustle, one of the best things
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The Best Home Organization Tips of the Year
It may not be an overstatement to say that decluttering is a new religion these days. However, that’s not to say everyone is ready to be converted. Although testimonies abound in social, and all other forms of, media detailing the life-altering effects of throwing out your old underwear, not all of us have drunk the
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What Maintenance Should I Keep Up With After Moving Into a New Home?
Your house may come with many features. It may come with a remodeled kitchen, a two-car garage, a built-in deck, or even maybe a pool. But if there’s one thing a home will never come with, it’s an instruction manual. No matter how many bells and whistles your house has, it won’t have a handbook
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Easy Tips on Organizing and Moving Your Garden Shed
Garden sheds can effortlessly become disaster zones. Your shed’s disarray may be forcing you to warily climb over rakes, shovels and various other oddly shaped objects to reach a single tool. Gardening is meant to be therapeutic, but if the simple act of getting your trowel makes you want to scream, relaxation likely won’t be
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DIY Carpet/Floor Cleaning Methods to Try Before You Move Out
Your flooring does not hide a multitude of sins. Quite oppositely, it brazenly displays them. The pet stains, the spilled wine, the muddy footprints, they’re all right there in the oddly colored blotches that now contribute to the décor of your house. Although you may have gotten used to them when you’re ready to move
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How to Paint Your Walls Like a Professional
Painting your walls is one of the easiest and least expensive ways to give any drab room a facelift. The best part? We’re giving you the tips and tricks you need to make your DIY paint job look like a seasoned pro did it. What You’ll Need to Paint Your Walls Like a Pro Canvas
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Making Your Home Office Work for You
Whether you’ve just started working from home or you’ve been a remote worker for years, making your home office work for you will increase your productivity. Having a home office that feels like a sanctuary will do more than improve your workflow, it’ll make you happier to be working! Whether you work from your kitchen
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How to Install Security Cameras at Home
Home security camera systems are an excellent and easy-to-install DIY option to ensure that your home and loved ones are protected. Read on to discover the best home security camera options and tips for installing a DIY security camera. Security cameras often work as a deterrent when installed in a visible location, criminals typically don’t
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Increasing Home Value - Why You Should Finish Your Basement
What’s in your basement besides exposed pipes, some old exercise equipment, and the main power source for your house? Potential. Yes, believe it or not behind the musty, dank, and dimly lit exterior lurks loads of potential just waiting for your inspired ideas and artistic vision to unleash it. But, finishing a basement has more
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Choosing Paint Colors Help You Sell Your Home
In 1983, John Cougar Mellencamp released a song called, “Little Pink Houses (For You and Me.” The truth is that although little pink houses maybe ‘for’ Mr. Mellencamp and his significant other, they may not be for everyone. Nor might purple, indigo haze, or seafoam green houses. The bottom line, when you’re selling your house,
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DIY Home Bar Essentials and Tips
Your home is your haven, so why not take it to the next level with a DIY home bar? You might have a something to celebrate like finishing your spring cleaning or relocating to a new city. Perhaps it’s just been a long, stressful day. A DIY home bar is a great way to liven
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Converting your dusty garage into another living space
Is your garage giving new meaning to the phrase “Don’t go there?” Is there so much junk in your garage that even the items that are actually valuable become junk by association? We hear you! But don’t despair, there’s gold in them thar garage walls! And garage conversion can be the key to finding it.
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Spring Cleaning the Garage
Maybe you’ve been putting cleaning your garage off for months, or even years. News Flash: Spring is the best time to tackle this project. A garage is an easy spot to toss things that seem like they have nowhere else to go or things that you’ll definitely “deal with later.” People tend to fling boxes
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Helping Your Child Design Their New Room
A kid’s bedroom is their kingdom. This is the place where a lot of cherished, fond memories are formed. Also, a kid’s personality is molded by what their first, immediate surroundings appear like. This is why it is important to create a kid’s bedroom design that features their favorite toys, colors, artwork, beloved furniture, soft
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How to Design a Peaceful Living Space in Your New Home
These days, we are often overwhelmed by the stress of work and the hectic woes of life. Retiring at a quiet, peaceful, and tranquil atmosphere is exactly what you need. If you are moving into a new home, it is essential that your living room has an appealing and relaxing design. However, the design involves
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Tips for Organizing Your Garage
The garage. By definition, it’s a place for storing motor vehicles. More commonly, it’s a place for storing everything in your house that you’re either not sure what to do with or see no need for in the near future. Theoretically, there’s nothing wrong with that; most garages make excellent places for storing the miscellaneous
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Organize your Move with Color Coding
Remember way back in kindergarten when the teachers taught you how to categorize? They would give you buttons and ask you to sort them according to size, shape, and color. Now that you’re all grown up and moving to a new house, you may start to see those skills paying off. When your organizing for
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How to Maximize the Space in Your New Home
Spacious. It’s a common adjective to advertise real estate. After all, spaciousness is a selling point. Almost everyone on the market for a new home envisions it to be uncluttered, open, simplistic, unfettered by material objects and reminders of the outside world. And of course, when you’re checking out new houses, many of them do
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Staging Your Home to Get it Sold
Home may be where the heart is, but when you’re selling your home, buyers are a lot more interested in the home than the heart. In other words, if your home’s on the market, you want to depersonalize as much as possible. Staging your home could cost you nothing – taking your family’s pictures off
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10 Things New Homeowners Need to Know
When you buy a home, you’re not just making a purchase, you’re taking on a responsibility. New homeowner ranks right up there with new parent when it comes to preparing for the unexpected; there’s a lot more to home owning than just changing light bulbs. While the challenges each new homeowner has to face are
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9 Home Improvements with the Best Resale Value
When last did you upgrade your home? Upgrading your home not only makes the property beautiful and attractive, it also adds to the value. Enhancing the curb appeal of your home helps to increase the amount the home will be sold on the market. The fact that the home looks fascinating will entice potential buyers
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Furnishing Your First Apartment
Finding nice-yet-affordable furniture for your first apartment might seem like a daunting task. And you’re right to see it as a challenge. According to Home Advisor, the average one-bedroom apartment costs $3,670 to furnish—and that’s the low estimate. The high estimate can set you back a whopping $61,610. However, the good news is that if
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Tips for Weatherproofing Your Home During Winter
The rustling leaves and crispness in the fall air are a chilly reminder that winter is just around the corner. Does the daunting task of preparing your home for winter scare you and your bank account? It doesn’t have to be that way. Below are some easy tips that won’t break the bank for winter
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Home Improvement 101: 15 Tools Homeowners Need
Home improvement: it doesn’t have to be a scary concept, as long as you have the right tools. For this reason, it’s a good idea to be properly equipped for the multitude of occasions when these tools are needed. Whether you have plans to do some DIY home upgrades or not, having the right tools
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Little Home Upgrades That Make a Big Difference
Home upgrades can have a dramatic effect on the look and feel of your home, but that doesn’t mean the project has to be a major overhaul. Not only are smaller upgrades more budget friendly, but in addition, most small home upgrades can be done in a weekend. Whether you’re preparing to put your home
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How to (Pumpkin) Spice up Your New Home
In the summer, we spend a lot of time entertaining outside. Porches become living rooms, lounge chairs become recliners, and grills become microwaves. When autumn returns, we too return, to the inside of our house, and realize how much our autumn home décor needs a makeover. With this in mind, you may be searching for
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