Posts Tagged“residential”

Top 10 tips for using self storage

So, you have finally decided to go on an extended holiday after dreaming about it for years. In order to fund this trip of a lifetime, you have decided to rent out your house while you are gone. While you have left most of your furniture in place, you have plenty of other belongings that you don’t want your tenants to touch or potentially steal. After a brief search, you found some self storage Perth solutions that charge a satisfactory price and offered the amenities that you were looking for. While you have committed to a locker, you are still…

Using your First Home Owners Grant Wisely

The Australian government has seen the need for some assistance for first time property buyers, and has recently increased the First Home Owner Grant (FHOG) to $10,000. This is a considerable amount of money, especially at a time when the outlay is so high, and it comes as a welcome relief to many young couples. The list of things to buy seems endless, so here are some ideas on how best to utilise the grant money. Furnishing the home An important thing to consider as one must have certain essentials, such as bedding, tables and chairs, and carpets, and although…

Expert Repairs Keep Your Appliances Happy And Healthy

There’s only so much preventative maintenance can do for your appliances. Sometimes, what you really needed all along was a visit from one of Toronto’s expert repair technicians. When a professionally trained and insured specialist arrives at your door, backed by experience and high quality equipment, you don’t have to worry about Band-Aid fixes. These technicians will find the root cause of your faulty machine and make the appropriate repairs quickly, efficiently, and — most importantly — affordably. Before you call the first repair service you find, it’s important you do your homework. Not everyone with a decaled truck and…

Quality Scaffolding means quality safety principles

If you require scaffolding for anything, you have to treat safety as being almost the main priority. Of course, you’re going to want to make sure you’re not paying too much for your scaffolding, and you’re going to want to make sure that your scaffold providers can deliver on time with courtesy, but ultimately, when you have scaffolding on a building you own or operate, you have a responsibility to your customers, your clients, and the general public for as long as that scaffolding is attached to your property. Of course, whether you’re enlisting the help of a scaffolding company…

Finding Storage Containers for Rent Online

If you’re about to move house into a furnished property while you search out your dream home, then chances are that you are going to need to find a storage solution for the majority of worldly possessions. This is becoming a more and more common way of moving house, and helps you to be able to take your time in finding the right home for you, but it does present some challenges along the way, with storage chief amongst them. Thankfully, if you are looking for storage containers for rent, you should find a whole host of options available to…

Designing a Granny Flat

If you’re planning to convert rooms so that an elderly relative can live in an adjoining, self-contained flat, you need to ensure it will be ‘user-friendly’ and fit-for-purpose. Here are some areas for consideration. Access While the person in question may be spritely for their age when they move in, this won’t always be the case, so if the flat is accessed by many stairs, this may cause difficulties in the future. If the staircase is wide enough and your budget allows, a stair lift could be installed. At some point the occupant may need to use a walking aide…

Entertain Guests with your Kitchen

When it’s time to renovate the kitchen, the design and layout will depend on how this area will be used. Those who seriously love hosting dinner parties and entertaining at home should design a different kitchen to those who see it purely for the family. Here are some ideas if you long to entertain guests with your kitchen. Interaction If the cooking is to be part of the show, then a central island with a hob and wet bar is ideal. Choose a glass extractor hood, so the view isn’t restricted. It’s pleasant for guests to be able to interact…

How to save thousands of dollars when staging a condo!

We’ve got a great tip for you today! Staging a home can be a very costly endeavor, but there are ways to save big on the costs. You can even make money from doing it! 1. Sell your condo furnished People think that they can imagine a space, but in reality, most can’t, and you’ll fetch a much higher price for your condo if you stage it if it’s empty. The best part is that you don’t need to just rent the furniture and have a big expense with no return on it. You can buy furnishings for reasonable prices and mark it…

The best cities in the USA to invest in real estate

Over the past half decade or so, America has gone through a traumatic time with respect to home prices. Plunging as much as 50% in some markets, it was a trying time for everyone involved in the industry … but time heals all wounds, and right now in 2015, many markets are finally on the upswing again. What are the best cities in the USA to invest in real estate? Below, we profile three cities that we believe represent solid buys as you begin to redeploy your capital into the property market again for the first time in many years……