What Home Renovations Increase the Most Value When Selling???
Often, I am brought in to work with a Client who is thinking about putting their home on the market in perhaps the not-too-distant future. The Client typically is aiming at picking my brain in terms of what they can do to maximize the value of their home as cost-efficiently as possible in […]
Why Winter is the Best Time to Sell Your Home…????
Obviously, I am FAR from a Realtor. Because of the way my business operates though, a strong pulse on the Real Estate market is a by-product of which provides me tremendous insight as to how the Real Estate market (at least in Rhode Island…) tends to flow. One of the people whose words I gravitate toward […]
A Simple, Sure to be Often Overlooked, Home Maintenance Initiative…
This is NOT a lie!!… I sat down earlier today to work at my desk and my desk chair, literally, fell apart underneath me :-/ It certainly could have been because I ate one too many tasty treats during the Holiday season. It could have also have been because the craftsman (me!) who originally assembled it, […]
Addiction During the Holidays…
As we are in the midst of the Holiday season, it is a time of year when not everyone is feeling the happiest. It is a time of year when many of us know people that may not be in the best spots emotionally that they have ever been in during the course of their […]
A Top 10 of Reasons Why Smoke Detectors Commonly Go Off…..
There is no secret of the importance of having smoke detectors throughout your home or business. Whether battery operated units or units that are hard-wired to the local fire department should they be set off, their purpose is the same: To alert us as quickly as possible if there is a potential fire […]
How Cold is TOO Cold to Paint Outside???
One of the questions that I can bank on getting overwhelmed with like clockwork at certain periods of the year is, “How cold is TOO cold to paint outside?” If you were to ask this question of almost any painter, contractor, paint supplier and the like, you would most likely get very […]
Rust…..
Perhaps one of the more unsightly things that one might see, rust can really take away from the cosmetic appearance of any given finish but it can also, if left untreated, cause extraordinarily expensive repairs. Rust forms when an iron or an alloy that contains iron (such as steel) is exposed to both oxygen […]
Sprucing Things Up for the Holidays!!
With Thanksgiving just passing, we are now fast tracking to the end of the year and all the Holidays that go along with the next several weeks. As many of us have family coming over in different capacities, there seems to often be a certain type of pressure of making our homes look as […]
What on EARTH is going on with this Weather???
No, it is not your imagination. I know, I was thinking the same thing… A good friend of mine, Harry Adler, has been an owner of Adler’s Hardware in Providence for quite some time. His family has owned the business since 1919 and suffice it to say, they have experienced quite a bit […]
Oil vs. Latex……
Perhaps the longest running technical debate that I have come across in my almost 25 years in business is the discussion of which is “better” oil or latex when it comes to exterior & interior home paint and stain products. This is probably a subject that I could literally write a book on as […]
