Carnival of Home Improvement #3

–By Sagar Satapathy

Welcome to the third edition of the Carnival of Home Improvement. Here are the posts that have been featured this week. We don’t have any particular piece that we can term the best among all. All the posts have been given equal importance. Without further ado, here are the posts in the order they were received.

Joshua Dorkin presents Establishing a Partnership for a Real Estate Deal posted at Real Estate Investing For Real. If you don’t take the time to work up a formalized agreement and purchase a property with partners, you can get yourself into some real trouble.

Tracy Coenen presents Have you been taken by mortgage fraud? posted at FRAUDfiles. Read about a mortgage fraud.

Praveen presents 4 Red Flags For Home Repair Fraud posted at My Simple Trading System. The Illinois attorney general’s Consumer Protection Division listed construction and home repair improvement fraud as the third most common consumer complaint, after identity theft and credit-related issues.

Matthew Paulson presents How to Reduce Your Home Electrical Usage posted at Getting Green. A lot of people rarely ever think about all of the energy that they are using in their home, and as a result they pay a much higher energy bill than they need to. By taking a few simple steps, you can easily reduce your electric bill by anywhere from twenty to forty percent. Consider these ways to cut your home electrical usage.

Madeleine Begun Kane presents Dog Days Of Roofing posted at Mad Kane’s Humor Blog. "Our roofers must enter your yard, But their access is blocked by your guard".

Steve Faber presents Housing Values Throughout the Country - What $300,000 Will Get You posted at Debt Free. Obviously, the affordability of a home in your area has a huge impact on your standard of living. It varies widely throughout different areas of the united states.

Sara Goldstein presents Home and lifestyle advice: the best of The Bargain Queen. » The Bargain Queen blog posted at The Bargain Queen blog. In a year of writing about home improvement on a budget (among other things), these are the absolute best posts I’ve come up with. Enjoy!

Clint presents 5 Home Improvement Projects That Will Raise Your Home’s Value posted at DIY Disaster Avoidance. In talking about recouping home improvement costs there is one room that should be held above all others: Kitchen. The kitchen is the single best place to remodel in order to raise the value of your home.

That concludes the third edition of the Carnival of Home Improvement. Keep submitting your posts to the future editions of this carnival. Thank you for your support and contribution.


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