Bluto Builders, Inc.

1.  Start cheap and work your way up to the more expensive items as your budget allows.

 

2.  Your Home's Exterior - First impressions on the exterior of your home are important and usually more labor intensive than costly.

• repair anything on the exterior of your home that is loose, broken, or rotten
• get your grass (or weeds) green
• neatly manicure your lawn (edge the sidewalk and drive way) and reseed bare spots
• trim the bushes and trees
• put fresh pine needles in the beds and around trees
• have something blooming in the beds
• put fresh paint on front porch rails and door if needed
• replace or polish tarnished coach lights and door hardware
• have shutters cleaned, painted, and/or replaced
• get driveway and sidewalks pressure washed if needed
• have exterior pressure washed and painted if necessary 

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Reports of the death of homeownership are greatly exaggerated. To read the headlines and hear the cable news, you would think that efforts to provide greater opportunities for homeownership were fiendish plots to ruin America. The pendulum of opinion appears to have swung well beyond simple correction for recent excesses.

 

Homeownership has been the housing choice for the majority of U.S. households since WWII. Home prices, sizes, locations, and types have changed but the quest to become a homeowner grew for 65 years. The share of households owning their own homes rose to almost 70 percent by 2004. That rate has fallen backward in the last several years. This article presents four observations countering the drum beat of negativism against homeownership.

Homeownership remains a priority. The recent housing market interruption has had many causes and explanations, and some long-term trends have changed since WWII. But, the demand for…

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