If your HVAC system is on the fritz, here are a few things you should check on before you make that dreaded service call.
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Improving Your Home for Resale Value and Personal Enjoyment
How can you improve your home for resale value and personal enjoyment?
We’re joined by an expert today to give you an idea.
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If you’re a homeowner and you’ve found a fixer, what should you improve? Or if you have a house you want to get ready for the market, what should you do? Today we’re joined by Leslie Cascino, founder and principal designer of Bonnie Wu Design, to help answer these questions for you. To give you a guideline, we’ll show you a complete before/after redesign of a sample home she just completed.
Follow along in the video above to see the full tour. For your convenience, we’ve provided timestamps so you can skip ahead to various sections:
1:39 – Swapping the living room and dining room to improve the space for resale value
2:45 – Rebuilding the fireplace for resale value and personal enjoyment
3:37 – Adding square footage to the new living room
4:11 – How the windows at the back of the house extend the living space
4:33 – Opening up the kitchen to the rest of the house and orienting it toward the backyard
5:36 – Dropping the plywood panels and installing overhead lighting
6:17 – Converting the den into a home office and guest bedroom
6:58 – Creating the master suite
7:54 – Wrapping things up
If you have any home design questions for Leslie, go ahead and visit her website here.
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Community Spotlight: Dexter’s Pub
For today’s community spotlight, I’m at Dexter’s Pub to speak with the owner, Peter.
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I know Peter through various business transactions, from me frequenting Dexter’s Pub, and from doing real estate together. We’re good friends, so today I wanted to shine our community spotlight on Peter’s popular and successful business.
According to Peter, who has owned the pub since 1998, the significance of the pub’s name comes from the fact that he feels it belongs to the whole community of Dexter.
There’s a special little story about Dexter’s Pub that not everyone knows about: They have their own resident ghost. Peter says that the ghost occasionally floats through the restaurant and knocks things over, causing general mischief. “You just have to be there to experience it,” he says.
Beyond their supernatural mischief-maker, you also have to be there in order to experience the great American dining, meet the excellent servers, and to enjoy the ambiance.
Dexter’s Pub has a regular menu featuring burgers, fish, pizzas, salad, and pasta. The pub also has daily specials. For example, Monday’s special is all-you-can-eat chicken and cod; Tuesday’s is Italian night; Wednesday’s is a Mexican night; and on Saturdays and Sundays, kids under 12 eat for free.
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Peter appreciates the support that the community of Dexter provides him, so his generosity is a way for him to give back.
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Peter’s family is also a part of the business: His wife operates as his accountant, and the rest of the family comes in on weekends to help out wherever they’re needed.
He also likes to be a contributing member of the community, speaking at events, serving as a sponsor for various drives, as well as donating to certain causes. He appreciates the support that the community of Dexter provides him, so his generosity is a way for him to give back.
I like to host the Toth Team’s client parties at Dexter’s Pub, where they offer catering services and pre-ordering options via phone. It’s truly a wonderful establishment.
To reach Peter at Dexter’s Pub, you can call (734) 426-1234 or visit their Facebook page.
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Today I’m joined once again with Eric Kruger from Koch & White, who is here to discuss what homeowners can do to avoid having to make service calls for the HVAC system in their homes. It stinks to make that service call, only to find out that it was something very simple you could have remedied on your own.
The first thing to do is to check your power supply on your furnace and make sure your breakers are on. For the heating end of the system, obstructed vent piping could also cause a problem if snow or leaves got in there. Those are both easy fixes for which you don’t need to make a service call.
If you’re out in a rural area, an empty propane tank will shut the furnace down. Homeowners with natural gas won’t have that problem, though.
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Make sure to check your air filter every single month.
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Finally, check your air filter every month. A plugged-up air filter is another cause of HVAC issues that can be easily fixed.
If you have any questions for Eric or Koch & White about what’s going on with your furnace or A/C system, give them a call at (734) 663-0202 or visit their website.
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