Home Upgrades on a Dime

We hope our series on credit was helpful during Open Forum Wednesday, as always do not hesitate to reach out and ask any questions regarding the series and your credit. Now in this article, we will talk about home upgrades.

This week we are focusing on homeowners and providing a few tips for upgrading your home on a budget.  When you have been in your home for some time, and even if you are a new homeowner, there may be some changes you want to make but you feel like you can’t afford it.  For those of us who can’t quite pull off a $50K upgraded kitchen yet, there are other options that are surprisingly cheap and easy to do.  When I first purchased my recent home, I switched out all the hardware on the cabinets and drawers in my kitchen to flow with the new appliances I had installed.  It gave my kitchen a fresher look and cost me less than $100.

If you are good with paint, or have friends who enjoy it, throw a paint party and give a room a face lift, or paint the trims and doors throughout the house.  Window coverings can also be changed on a budget, a curtain rod and some new curtains can liven up any room and can be purchased for a few hundred dollars depending on the number of windows.  The list goes on, but we want to hear from you!  Gives us and the community some ideas for easy/inexpensive home upgrades.Visit our Facebook Page to interact more with us.

Power to the People

 

Power To The People

Knowledge is power as the adage goes.  The more information you have, the higher the likelihood the decisions you make are going to benefit you and those you care for.  Knowledge cannot be taken away, usurped, or destroyed once obtained and building wealth in the community is central to consolidating that power.

Every Wednesday we will provide answers to some of the questions most asked and misinformation most conveyed to me around homebuying.   We will also use this forum to address questions you may have around buying property, whether it be lending, credit, saving, what you need, what you don’t need and sharing insights around the process with the community.  We will start with one of the most common comments I hear:

 I can’t afford to buy a house.

You can’t afford not to.  Rents in the Puget Sound region from Everett to Lakewood are skyrocketing. With renting comes required deposits; first and last months rent to potentially be provided; and application fees to be paid. All to go towards adding equity and security to someone else’s property.  This kind of money could be put towards starting on the path of building your own wealth and security with homeownership.  With down payment assistance and lender specific credits, money is not the biggest barrier to buying, misinformation is.  Contact Bascomb Real Estate Group and let us help you stay informed!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Office of Minority Women and Business Enterprise Certification

 

It’s Official! Bascomb Real Estate Group has been given the distinct honor of being certified as a Minority/Women Business Enterprise by the Washington State Office of Minority Women Business Enterprise (OMWBE).

The OMWBE promotes equity and increased participation in public contract and procurement for small business.  To be certified through the office is a very intense process and to receive this designation as a minority/woman owned small business was a great achievement for us and we wanted to share this designation with our community!

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