home ownership

How Much You Should Spend on Home Maintenance

Knowing how much you should spend on home maintenance each year is hard to figure out and may be preventing you from buying your first home. The types of costs you’ll incur depend on the house you buy and its location. The one certainty is that you should start saving now. Read on to figure

Center Stage: Tips for Staging Your Home on a Budget

Between buying a new home and transporting yourself and your belongings to it, moving can be an expensive process. One often underrecognized cost of moving occurs before one’s original house has even been sold, and that’s staging the house. Homeowners often spend hundreds of dollars making a home appealing to potential buyers. To ease the