August 27, 2008
Handyman Requests
We want to let everyone know we have not forgot about new articles and tips for all. We are experiencing large reguests for service and just can’t get the chance to write new articles. We will keep trying to help all.
Please, don’t forget our new TV spot on the “Morning Blend” Local Milwaukee Wisconsin Channel 4 for local, it is on between 9-10:00 AM in between the “Today Show” We offer tips and advice to help people with their homes.
There is also free e-mail advice from the TV show also.
Take care, always remember safety first when working around the house.
Fix-It Brother
Ed
February 17, 2008
Ice Damming II
The Midwest is being hit with a winter rain/ice/snow storm as I write this article. The problem is not just the ice on the roads, but the ice and snow on the roofs. When you take a look around the greater Milwaukee area you still see a number of homes with large amounts of ice damming. This leads to home damage from the exterior to the interior of the houses. The ice forces water into walls and then gets the interior walls wet causing damage to drywall. The drywall can become so damaged that it will need to be removed and new sections put in. The damage drywall that does not get replaced can lead to mold growth in home besides being a hazard by not being a stable interior wall sheathing anymore, the water deteriorates the compound and becomes unstable, ceiling pieces can possibly fall. Watch out for ceilings that have water dripping from it. There could be water build up and this can force the ceiling to fall causing great amounts of damage and possible harm to the occupants of the home.
There is a way that you can help to protect you and your family. When you see a ceiling that appears to have water and is dropping or bulging, you need to relieve the water pressure. The pressure can be lessened by taking a screw driver or pen and making drain holes. We have advised clients that don’t wish to fix there ice damming damage to beware of falling drywall and water build up in their ceilings until they fix their ice damming problems. Many don’t wish to fix the drywall damage as they fear it may just occur again. This makes sense that you don’t want to fix something only to have it damaged again. You must get to the root of the problem. That is what is causing your ice damming problems to begin with.
There are many good tips in the first ice damming article on how to get rid of your ice damming problems. So, please feel free to take a look at that article. There will be some things you can do yourself or maybe you might want to give Badges Properties a call to help you with any home problems you might have. Badges Properties can help you out if you live in or around the greater Milwaukee area, they are also home to Badges Properties “Fix It Brothers”, they are here to help you with your problems, they are not your normal handyman company. They have a blend of education and state certifications to help their customers. They advise people and consult people, they do not sell people on what they don’t need, like many so called handyman/home improvement companies that have a “hammer and a rusted up pickup truck”. The old saying, you get what you pay for, really applies when hiring a handyman/home improvement contractor.
We also offer many consumer protection tips on how to find a good handyman/home improvement contractor in your area. So, feel free to look around and visit some of the articles we have to help you, the best part they are all free.
Remember, Always Safety First.
February 08, 2008
Find A Handyman III
So, you need a handyman? What do you do? Where do you go? If you have seen any of my articles I do try to help the home owner find a handyman in their area, by showing what to look for in a good handyman company. The hardest part is where do you go to look for a handyman? I would have to say local newspapers is one of the largest spots that people go too when looking for a home improvement or handyman service. The handyman and home improvement professional have become the same now days depending on what size company or expertise the company you are dealing with has. There is a company in the greater Milwaukee area in Wisconsin we will use as a example of a very well rounded and highly trained handyman and home improvement company.
Going with the above example Badges Properties can be found in the local newspaper under handyman, you don’t have to look under just home improvements any more to find people for all kinds of work. Just make sure the company you hire is well rounded, if you find a specialty company you will for ever be trying to find someone for each type of work. For example you call a company who does nothing but gutters, because your down spout became detached and needs to be reconnected. They come out and fix the down spout and now you remember you want a leaky pipe in the kitchen fixed also. While you called a specialized gutter company, they are not going to come in a fix your leaky sink pipe, so again you have to find another person to fix that. Now, lets look at a company like Badges Properties, they could reattach the down spout and fix the leaky pipe and your done! This is a really big tip when looking for home repairs, don’t specialize unless you have to. Find a well balanced company that does everything you need them to do. This sounds so simple, but people get caught up in this all the time, spending alot of time and money, when they don’t need to. Just look into the company you want to use.
Badge Properties is home to the “Fix It Brothers” they have a shared background in general repair, full home remodeling and finished basements, home inspection, home rehab, engineering, marketing, hydroseeding”high end new lawn installations at seed/straw prices”, in short this company has the credentials and tools to do it all for you. I know this is a unusual situation that one company would be so well educated and suited for practically anything to do with a home. There are companies out there like Badges Properties in your area, you just have to find them. Badges Properties “Fix It Brothers” are the kind of people you want to have around for all of your homes needs. The nice part about the “Fix It Brothers” is they are not trying to sell you anything, they only want to help you fix your homes problems. Anther tip, don’t let a company tell you what you need unless you are asking for their advice.
Another area the “Fix It Brothers” shine in is “Pre-Sale Rehab of houses. The tough home market has made sellers to be ready when their houses hit the market. The buyers want a house in perfect shape, even over a year ago, buyers were walking away from sellers even offering cash to fix what they wanted! The new buyers of today are just moving on to the next house and don’t want to fix up the homes they buy, they just want to move in and thats it. Badges Properties actually started off providing this service and now has expanded into a full service home repair company. Here again is the same tip as above, find a good home repair service company that can full fill all of your homes needs, not just one and so forth.
Well, theres your helpful tips for finding a handyman, this is part of a on going series of articles which can be found at our tip blogs and you will want to visit www.houseitemsshop.biz for all of your homes product needs. Please feel free to search for many more self help article in our archives.
January 31, 2008
The Fed And Foreclosure Market
The foreclosure market on houses is at a all time high. The fed is lowering interest rates in hopes that this will help to get more money back in play. The banks are holding so many properties that they don't know what to do with all of them. The above is some information when used all at once can help people to sell or buy in the right situation. Many people got into loans that they just were never going to be able to handle, hence the highest foreclosures on properties people have seen. The investor could make money when connecting the dots or the right properties and people for your money. There will be the correct time to buy the right property. You can say, well that is very profound, I know. What I am trying to say is the banks are into banking not selling houses or sitting on properties. The banks used the high home sales market to sell their foreclosures on the regular market and still come out smelling like a rose. Those days are gone and now they are begging agents to sell their properties because they have more coming back to them then they can sell. These houses are not usually in the best shape for starters to hit the market. So, theres strike one! The agent is now trying to move a product or house in this case that is like trying to sell a carton of rotten eggs, that right its going to smell. The banks need to start looking at what we will call a total home staging company, like Badge Properties who are a business in the Greater Milwaukee area of Wisconsin, that look at the total house and what needs to be done to sell it. The same goes for any home owner who is serious about preparing their home for sale. There are fewer buyers, strike 2! the houses need to be ready, even when your not talking about foreclosures. Badges properties has different divisions that allow it to take a house from start to finish for their customers. You see the typical house staging companies are designers and agents charging for consulting and then leave the rest up to their customers, the home owners in this case. This still leaves the home owners to find the right people to make all the repairs or updates to make the house ready to hit the market, Strike 3! Badges Properties has developed a full service consult and repair program that looks at the property and takes it from start to finish based on the the customers needs. They don't just do the consult for just under $200 and walk away leaving the customer with only a consult report, they have the staff and crew to take the property to finished product. Many don't have the means or desire to do this, which makes Badges Properties of Wisconsin really stand out among the rest. You see, having a consult and getting a report is really only the beginning to preparing a house for sale. You as the home owner may still want to do some of the work and thats fine, but you need a professional company to organize the rehab and have the professionals on staff to make it happen, they do this as it is their expertise. The home owners are not house rehab professionals or home staging professionals they are home owners with other jobs. You don't go to your auto mechanic and ask them to do your taxes right? Same applies here, you or the home owner is trying to sell the home, you really may not have the knowledge in engineering, repair, fixing and staging a home for sale. There are companies like Badges Properties in the greater Milwaukee who can take a house from consult to sale, it will be very hard to find a company like this one, but they are out there if you look. Badges Properties is a expanding company which is branching out via the Internet to help others with their home projects and sales. This year is going to be a big year for housing and foreclosure market, people are going to need help with their properties. Badges Properties for example has divisions which handles and have credentials in engineering, marketing, repairing and rehab of properties. They round this out with a hydroseeding division which installs new lawns and erosion barriers for home owners and home builders. The then complete the circle on the home division with a certification in home inspection to give more peace of mind to their customers. So, you can see now, why there are not many companies that compare to the services of Badge Properties. They even have a full time handyman division, so again they have the whole home covered from the roof to the basement, not forgetting the yard either. The houses once they are ready to hit the market will out shine the many others that are out there. The investor that is ready to find great deals on foreclosures and dropping costs on homes will be able to buy these extreme deals and make a considerable amount on these properties. The houses out there will need a little help and then they will be ready. Many houses will out sell the others as long as they are prepared to hit the market, the home owners can spend smaller amounts to save or gain much more. The interest rates going lower will spur new interest again in homes which will have new lower prices on them. The well qualified buyers will be positioned to buy these houses. There may not be the large amounts of buyers out there like years back, but they will be there and looking for the perfectly prepared house. The 08 market will present a whole new year for the home owner who is prepared to sell. Badges Properties is already gearing up for the spring market. Need help with your home give Badges Properties a call 414-469-7102. They are helping people each and everyday. >
January 29, 2008
How To Find A Handyman II
The question of, how do I find a handyman? is crossing more and more peoples minds now days. There are less and less handyman out there. I should say less and less trustworthy and good handyman companies out there. People say it is just plain hard to find one. You can try one of those advertised screening places, but you still don’t know what you are going to have on your door step. Those ads, we find you 4 quality contractors all free to you, types is what I am talking about here.
Those places make their money off the contractors paying for the screening service to list them and use them to give them leads. They just group all the contractors in one spot, so as long as the contractor pays for his or her leads the screening company keeps them on their list of qualified contractors. These places came about as it became harder to find someone to do your home repairs for you.
There is a great company called Badges Properties in the greater Milwaukee area in Wisconsin, which is a company that helps people with all of their homes needs. When it comes to fixing, remodeling, repairing or updating, Badges Properties has you covered. They have other divisions of the company that provide new lawn installation or erosion barriers via a newer high tech system of hydroseeding, gives a sod like lawn in 4 weeks from seed. They also offer services on consulting to the finished product for staging your house for sale. They don’t just provide you with a consult report and refer you to others to do the work, they handle it all. There are not to many companies out there like Badges Properties who handle all your projects from the roof to the basement. They were even wrote about in the local Milwaukee newspaper for handling all sized projects for people. They have been helping people for awhile now with all their homes needs.
There are many articles out there on finding the right handyman, you just need to stick to the basics. Find people that have been in your area for awhile. Not just years in the handyman improvement business, just been in your area. Someone that is born and raised in your area is proud to be there and is part of your community. You don’t always find this when your dealing with large national franchised chains, yes they are also trying to franchise handyman services now. Solid work and ethics makes for a good handyman company, not a national chain with lots of advertising. The next part is looking into a handyman company that you want to use. Ask for other people that they have worked for, more than one. See what organizations they are affiliated with. Make sure they are insured or ask if they hold any certifications or license. What is there back ground?
These are just a few suggestions to help you find a good handyman company in your area, again if your lucky enough to live in or around the greater Milwaukee area, try using Badges Properties for your homes needs. Maybe you just have a question on a home related matter, give them a call 414-469-7102, they are very friendly and really want to help people.
Handyman Requests
Ice Damming II
Find A Handyman III
The Fed And Foreclosure Market
How To Find A Handyman II
House Items Shop II
What Does Hydroseeding A Lawn Cost?
How To Find A Handyman
How Much To Hydroseed A Lawn
House Items Shop
Hydroseeding Machines / Erosion Barriers And New Lawns
Roof Ice Damming
Christmas Handyman Help
SEO Hype And You
Fix Your House
Hydroseeding cost For Your Lawn
Don't Get Scammed
Cost Of A New Seeded Lawn
New Lawn Game
Tub Inserts