Welcome to

The Home Owner
Information Center

The links on this page are meant to provide you with all the information that you could ever possibly need to know about home ownership.

As I discover new sources of information that I feel are of value, I will add them to this page ... so check back from time to time to see what's new.

1. The 2009 Annual Home Sales Summaries
   Complete data about ALL the homes that sold within your community last year. This is important information that every homeowner should know. These popular reports are requested by hundreds of area home owners each year.
2. ALL Homes Currently Available For Sale
   a.k.a. "The Competition"
   This report is a compilation every single home that is currently listed for sale by every single real estate office within a given community.
3. Learn The Sale Price Of Any Home In Any Neighborhood
   This national database contains home sales information for most communities in the U.S.
4. Your House - The Owner's Manual
   An illustrated 122 page manual on how to care for "the single largest investment of your lifetime", ... your home.
   From the Cooperative Extension at the University of Wisconsin.
5. How Long Stuff Lasts
   Nothing lasts forever. All the components, appliances and mechanical systems in your home have a reasonably predictable lifespan. How Long Stuff Lasts is a useful compilation of industry opinions about how long homeowners can expect the various parts of their home to function properly.
6. Simple Home Maintenance Checklist
   "An once of prevention is worth a pound of cure".
   Unfortunately, a "maintenance-free home" does not exist. Your home can't take care of itself so regular home maintenance is essential to protecting the value of your home and preventing small repairs from developing into expensive projects.
7. Easy Home Care Tips - 11 page booklet
   A topic by topic list of preventive home maintenance tips and quick & easy fixes
8. Home Improvement - How NOT To Get Nailed
   It's important to be cautious when hiring someone to work on your most valuable asset
   ... your home.
9. DIVORCE & The Family Residence
   Unfortunately, with the break-up of the marriage comes a break-up of the combined income. The same money that was used to "carry" the family home will now have to be used to support two households and this can mean that some unpleasant compromises may have to be made. The following is a brief overview of what to expect when it comes time to redefine the status of a married couple's "single largest asset", the family home.
10. FREE! Martha Webb's book, Dress Your House For Success
    Martha gives step by step instructions on how to dynamize a home to maximize its value. This 192 page book usually sells for $12.00 in most bookstores but it's available here for FREE.
11. The Empty Nester's Checklist
    A checklist designed to help home owners with "big house blues", make the right decision.
12. The Best Home Marketing Tool Ever Invented
    A universal marketing tool that has stood the test of time.
13. Real Estate Abbreviations ... Demystified
    The definitions for those mind twisting combinations of letters found in classified ads and on MLS data sheets.
14. Realtor Roulette
    Your home is the "single largest investment of your lifetime" ... don't gamble.
15. HOTTEST Homeowner Websites
    For those interested in protecting, maintaining or improving "the single largest investment of their lifetime" ... their home.

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