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Mold in Your Home? Here are Some Tips – San Mateo CA

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With the excitement of Spring and warmer weather finally here, it’s time for you take a closer look at the condition of your San Mateo home.  After deeper inspection, you may find areas that need an extra bit of care.  If you happen to notice mold in your home, do not panic. It’s very common…Read More »

Saving Money in Your New Home – Burlingame CA

Everyone likes to save money.  Everyone, even billionaires do.  Part of owning a home, whether it’s a house, townhouse or condo, is home maintenance and if you’re disciplined about doing it, you can not only save money on your home, but help the environment with these tips.  Energy use is a huge portion of our…Read More »

Home For Sale? Time to Spring Clean – Foster City CA

Spring has sprung, making it a great time to focus on sprucing up your home.  Whether you have just purchased a home or are planning to sell, a little bit of effort spent and a few quick cleaning tips will help your home to sparkle!  Along with the need for general de-cluttering and cleaning, the…Read More »

Buying & Selling a “Green” Home – Foster City CA

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What does it mean to build “green”?  This term is being used more and more today and its meaning is really rather confusing to most of us.  Is it building with special materials by reusing recycled material such has lumber?  Not using certain kinds of glues in building or manufacturing?  What about inside the house…Read More »

5 Tips for Fall Home Maintenance: Burlingame CA

When Halloween comes it’s time to check your home for maintenance ’cause winter’s on its way . Taking the time to fix things when they’re small issues saves big bucks later on. Here of 5 of the easiest things to do:

Tips For New Home Owners – Organization

The move is over.  The boxes have been broken down and are stacked in the garage.  And the mess is loosely organized meaning the stuff is in the right room but not really put away.  There really are ways to make this easier than you think!  It’s called organization.  So take a deep breath, let…Read More »

Paper Paper Everywhere. Help I’m Drowning in Paper!

If you’re like me, you are drowning in paper both at home and in your office space.  Paper, paper everywhere.  At home we have stacks and stacks of paper in the kitchen, family room and our office.  What is it all and why do we need it?  Truthfully, we really don’t need most of it…Read More »

Less Is More When You’re Space Challenged

San Mateo County homes generally lack a great deal of square footage so space is always an issue.  Yesterday I wrote the first five hints to help you in your clutter removal tasks.  I have five more hits to help you in your quest to pair down your junk into use able items of value…Read More »

Space Issues? Less Is More.

Last week I talked about space and whether we really need huge houses.  It’s not that big an issue here in our area where most homes built before the 1990′s were modest in size comparing to other parts of the county.  So most of us have Space Issues.  Did you know that in the 1950′s…Read More »

Space. How Much is Too Much or Too Little?

I’ve been thinking about Space lately.  You know the amount of Space you live in, not what’s up there somewhere in the sky.  How much is too much?  How much is too little. Do we really need more space?  Do you, do I, does anyone need a mega mansion? When I was growing up the…Read More »



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