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November is `REALTOR® Designation Awareness Month’

Now more than ever, home buyers and sellers rely on REALTORS® to keep current on issues involving technology, changing legalities, and many other central business components of the real estate industry.

Home for the holidays without the headache

As the holidays approach, many guest bedrooms will find themselves filled with the luggage of in-laws. The extra leaf of the dining room table will be pulled down from the attic, awaiting a packed family feast. As extended families gather to celebrate the holiday season, the capacity of homes across the country is tested. Maybe yours is one. Will your home be ready for the influx of people to come? Read on to find out what you can do to make everyone’s holiday enjoyable around your home.

Upgrading your home can lead to rebates

Homeowners now have even more power to make energy-efficient improvements to their houses and get money back for doing so.

How to plan for your first renting experience

Congratulations! Moving out on one’s own can be one of life’s most exciting adventures. Or it can be one of the first big disasters. Information and planning are the keys to make that move away from our childhood home an event we remember more with fondness than with horror. Landlords and experienced tenants agree on several pieces of information that are important for first-time renters: