Upkeep on your home

The importance of up keeping your home over the years is very important this is a big piece of your overall investment portfolio so you want to maintain it and protect your investment. As with any home they have wear and tear from inhabitants as years go by takes a toll on your home. 

You should always budget for yearly maintenance on your house. Along with a budget for maintenance you should also have a plan for cleaning as well as inspecting your house. Think of your house apart of your business it has to be maintained and updated in order to keep its value if sold or passed on to the next generation.

Keeping up with a home whether its new or old can save you a lot of unnecessary and unexpected costs in the long run. Keeping up with home maintenance is not a hard thing to do.

I’ll share with you a few things that I do for my house throughout the year for maintenance. In the Spring I usually check all cracks and crevices around the house. I look for things like cracks that could possibly be getting bigger that could lead to foundation problems and so forth. I usually run over the small cracks with caulking. I’m checking the paint on the house and inside the house. I check my filters for the AC unit as well as all air filters throughout the house. I usually check all my fire extinguishers installed throughout the house to see if they are good. There are a number of other things that may need checking but I hope you just get the idea and awareness that you need to check period.

Always be observant of what is going on with everything working and a part of your house. When finding things that need to be repaired you can always DIY or hire a professional if it is something that requires a professional. You have to be able to manage whether or not you will need a professional or if you can do it yourself. It’s best to always try and research whatever problem you have before calling in a professional this can also save you tons of money. With Google and YouTube the sky is the limit on how much work on your home you can do yourself, not to mention Home depot, and Lowe’s are always there for you to converse with the associates and get info on how to get things done.