Making Quick Work of Autumn Leaves

What is your favorite season? In the northeast, the answer to that question is typically “autumn” – probably because shoveling snow is an incredibly arduous task. However, autumn brings with it its’ own arduous task – raking the leaves!...

Leaf-raking Alternatives

This time of year is understandably a lot of people’s favorite. However, it’s also understandably a lot of people’s least favorite. Why? Because for some homeowners, it means hours spent outside with a rake in hand, fighting a seemingly endless...

Pets and Your Home

Pets can bring a lot of joy to your life, but for some, they instead cause a lot of suffering. If you have pet allergies, you know just how terrible it can be to suffer through being in a building where there are pets, but sometimes it can be just as bad to be in a...

Poison Ivy, Oak, and Sumac

If you’ve ever had the extreme displeasure of getting a reaction to poison ivy, oak, or sumac, you know that it is an unforgettable experience. There’s a good reason why the root word for these plants (toxicodendron) essentially means “poison...

Pre-Listing Inspections

Are you preparing to put your home on the market? It can seem like a lot of work, more than likely you are trying to do as much as you can to the home to improve its chances of selling. But what happens if after all that work the home buyer’s inspection finds some...