Home Improvement/household resources, gardening

Home Improvement

Remodeling? Relocating? Buying a House? Renting? Fixing a leaky faucet, fantasizing about your dream home or just looking for some ideas? Like to garden? We've got the links to get you started.

Housing & Home Maintenance - This is the Consumer Information Centers page on selling and financing your house and home maintenance. Here you will find helpful information on selling your home, buying a home, mortgages, refinancing, a home buyer's vocabulary, how to buy a home with a low down payment, selecting a new water heater, how to repair your flooded home, fixing up your home and many others. Quite a useful site.

PC Maintenance - What's this got to do with home improvement you say? Well, every home has one and if we don't learn how to take care of our PC it is just a matter of time before we regret it. On this very useful page from Microsoft you will learn how to create your own Windows 98 startup disk. You can use your startup disk to start your computer from the floppy drive if it will not start from the hard drive. Trust me, this happens, I've had to do it myself. The article also helps you figure out how to do regular computer maintenance tasks such as: disk fragmentation, disk cleanup, scan disk etc. They have great instructions for you to follow. It is worth your time to read through the article and get your computer "tuned-up". The article will even show you how to set these maintenance tasks up so that they will run themselves in the future.

Buildscape - An extensive home improvement site with product reviews, design ideas, tips, shopping, a houseplan section with planning tips and house plans, message boards where you can get help from others.

Relocation/moving resources - Find resources for relocating, selling or buying a house, renting. Find moving resources, self service moving (they give you the truck, they drive, you load and unload), how-to tips, for sale by owner sites, community information, real estate agents, houses on the market and anything else you might possibly need when moving.

Remodeling - On this page you can find home remodeling resource sites that offer do-it-yourself tips, sample contracts for contractors, tips on what to keep in mind when hiring contractors, design ideas, basic information you need before starting your remodeling projects and much more. This should get you started on the right track...

HomeFair - This is a great resource for anyone looking for a home (be it to buy or rent a house or apartment), selling a home or relocating. At HomeFair you can find city reports that give you side-by-side comparisons of two cities' cost of living, climate, demographcis and other information. School reports that give you student/teacher ratios, average class sized etc. for the area you are thinking about moving to. You can get crime rate comparisons, salary and moving calculators, find mortgage deals and get offers from merchants like Home Depot.

HouseNet - Here you can find handy ideas on home repairs and remodeling projects, a lawn and garden section, home decorating section, sewing and crafting ideas and even a real estate section that offers you some help when it comes to buying, selling or refinancing your home.

Rebecca's Garden - Those of you who already garden have probably heard about "Rebecca's Garden" the TV-show. Well this site has all that the show does. Find garden tips, articles, how to's, recipes and lots more.

GardenGuides - Anything you could possibly want to know about gardening: tips and techniques, all about annuals, beneficial insects, cutting flowers, starting seeds, storing vegetables, freezing vegetables and more.

Real Estate Web Sites - We've compiled a list of 10 Real Estate sites that will give you home listings, rentals worldwide, mortgage calculators, moving tips, salary&relocation calculators, school information, weather information, crime rates, articles on pretty much anything related to Real Estate and lending, links and much more. If you are thinking about buying a home, renting, selling you can't afford to miss our Real Estate page.

HomeToys - This is a website which will provide you with the help you need to make informed decisions about your automation projects. Includes resources such as products and services, software, books and videos, tips and tricks archives etc.

MarthaStewart.com - Now what would home improvement be like without Martha to show us the way? Yes, she has taken the leap into cyberspace.

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