Landscaping Like You Love the Earth

It is just a little bit ironic that landscaping, the practice of caring for and arranging the earth and growing things in a certain area, can potentially be one of the worst things for adding toxic pollution to the ground. With the abundance of chemical fertilizers, herbicides, pesticides and similar products that are being spread on lawns, parks and gardens around the country, it’s almost enough to have them designated as toxic waste dumping sites. Further, water use in the average city can rise as much as 50 percent when people start watering their lawns and gardens in the summer, making resource use another negative environmental impact of landscaping. Fortunately, this isn’t necessary, and there are a lot of ways to garden and landscape safely, in ways that will promote health instead of increasing the chances of illness.

Landscaping Like You Love the Earth : 2:38 (658 words)

Innovations in Insulation

It’s no secret that energy efficiency is a good idea. It wastes money, electricity and resources to have an energy inefficient home. Therefore, insulating your home is very important to saving money on your heating and cooling bills, and earning you “green points” towards environmental protection.

Innovations in Insulation : 1:59 (495 words)

Mortgages still expensive, despite base rate cuts

The recent Bank of England interest rate cut comes as cold comfort to millions of homeowners who saw their mortgage payments rise in the weeks before the reduction, as UK banks and building societies are struggling in the wake of the global credit crunch.

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The Secret of Success (When Selling Your Home)

Spring is here and all those homes are going to be up for sale on the market whatever the newspapers say about the realty gloom! So how can yours stand out from all the rest? What is the secret of success? Is there a secret of success? Yes there is: the Secret of Success lies in the letter ‘S’ - of course!

The Secret of Success (When Selling Your Home) : 3:26 (860 words)

B & B - How About Running A Bed and Breakfast?

For those home owners already in the bed and breakfast business, this is a busy time of the year. Hanging out the signs again, putting the ‘Vacancy’ sign in the window and generally sprucing up the front of the house.

B & B - How About Running A Bed and Breakfast? : 2:26 (609 words)

Last Chance To Buy The OK Corral?

We have all become a little complacent about the six percent mortgage interest rate; it has been there for quite a while now. No need to jump on it - yet - let’s see what the realty market is doing…….is this your take on it?

Last Chance To Buy The OK Corral? : 2:40 (665 words)

Getting Green With Bamboo

What is all this fuss about being green? If your social conscience is pricking and you want to feel virtuously green, have you thought of utilizing bamboo? You can build a shed with it, eat it, sleep in it, walk on it, wear it, or grow it as a tree or bush to make more oxygen for the planet! Now that is being green!

Getting Green With Bamboo : 2:57 (737 words)

Would you Buy your Home on eBay?

The National Auctioneers Association says real estate auctions are the fastest growing auction type right now with annual sales rising at least $2.2 billion in the past year. That’s a total of $58.5 billion in real estate sales for 2007 alone. Fueled by a rise in foreclosures, it looks like this market is just heating up. Currently the statistics say that people will drive up to 1.3 hours to attend auctions of interest and 75% of them bring the whole family. But what happens when you mash the trend to buy and sell homes at auction with the Internet?

Would you Buy your Home on eBay? : 2:08 (532 words)

Smartening Up An Older Home For Profit

If you have just bought an older home with a view to renovating it and flipping it (a sort of slow flip at the moment!) then you will do your best renovating work if you have some respect for the homes’ original character.

Smartening Up An Older Home For Profit : 2:38 (660 words)

Santa Fe Modern Shaking it up in New Mexico

Santa Fe architecture is a perennial favorite and an old standby. It’s just part of living here. It’s likely, however, that Santa Fe wouldn’t look like Santa Fe if the preservationist “Historic Styles Ordinance” hadn’t been passed in 1957. The ordinance draws a line around the historic downtown area in the city and dictates that all buildings within this 300 acre area adhere to certain design guidelines. If it’s in Santa Fe, it’s gotta look Santa Fe.

Santa Fe Modern Shaking it up in New Mexico : 2:14 (559 words)
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