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How To: Sell a Home with Children

Everyone faces challenges when they sell their home. Some homes need major structural repairs, some need landscaping upgrades while the lucky ones may need some touch-up paint and organization. Another hurdle to overcome is attempting to sell and buy a …
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Home Renovations: Where to Put the Kitchen Sink?

Home renovations can be a stressful time for homeowners; questions arise about the layout, functionality and entertaining quality of the space and what is the best fit. When looking to re-do your kitchen counter top, many families proceed to put …
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Property Management Tips from My Dwelling: Spring Cleaning and Maintenance

Now is the time for property management inside and out! Let’s start with spring-cleaning. A yearly tradition for most Americans that involves, ‘un’-hibernating, breaking up with the television, and swinging from our chandeliers with a toothbrush in one hand and …
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Get your Pre-Approval Now!

Lenders are packaging pre-approvals in many different ways today. Some are using rockets, colored buttons, fancy names and clever animation. I believe consumers are better off armed with more facts and less flash…after all, the real issue is, can you get …
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Shorewest, REALTORS® Cedarburg/Grafton, Janesville/Rock County and Menomonee Falls Offices Broke Sales Records In March

The Wisconsin real estate market is on track to have its best year since 2006. Home sales continue to experience substantial growth as more and more families are looking to buy and sell their homes. We are excited to celebrate …
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8 Laundry Room Inspirations!

Let’s face it; the laundry room is a place where we want to spend the least time possible. Wash, fold and repeat. Laundry can be boring unless we enjoy being in the laundry room! Here are some laundry room renovation …
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Resource Video: Homeowners Edition

What is Eminent Domain? Today’s video centers on eminent domain or the legal process that gives federal, state or local government the power to take private property for public use. This is very important to learn about as it can …
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Weekend Project: Preparing Your Home For Winter

As much as we don’t want to mention it, winter is around the corner. If you remember, last winter brought extra low temperatures and increased heating bills. It is never good when you receive an unexpected $600 heating bill in …
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How To Close Your Pool For The Season

Fall has officially begun and  it’s time to close down your pool for the season. It’s important to properly close your pool to protect it from damage in the winter and result in lower maintenance when warm weather returns. Here are …
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Millennials, Did You Know This About Down Payments?

Housing experts have done much research into why we don’t have more first-time home buyers entering the market. In looking at this issue, recent surveys of Millennials (the largest first-time home buyer pool in history) uncovered that 60% of these buyers believe …
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