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6 Things You Have To Believe In Order To Succeed

Success, in business and in life, is about following a set of beliefs that will guide your journey when nothing else can. “Practice the right beliefs and somehow the world starts to present you with opportunities you’d otherwise never notice, practice the wrong ones and opportunities pass you by like noontime shadows, fleeting and barely noticed.” Beliefs a ... Read More »

21 Ways To Prepare Your Home For Selling

While small upgrades and minor decor replacements may seem like a waste of time when you’re in a hurry to sell your house, one of the biggest mistakes you can make as a seller is listing your home without any advance preparation. Whether you’re listing your condo for sale in Miami, FL, or looking for a buyer for your home for sale in Chicago, IL, the easies ... Read More »

7 Ways to Increase the Comfort of Your Home

Because you spend much of your day in an office or in front of a computer, many of us rely on our homes as a fortress of comfort. For most of us, it is necessary that our homes are encompassed in relaxation in order to keep our sanity. After hours on end spent typing, emailing, and swiveling around in that old desk chair, we often find ourselves counting dow ... Read More »

5 Things You Might Not Know Your Insurance Covers

When you buy auto or home insurance, you have basic protections in mind. For home insurance, you’re likely most worried about fire, wind and burglary. For auto protection, you’re concerned about causing or being a victim of a wreck. Your agent likely outlined some other scenarios where you’d receive help from your policies. For example, standard home insura ... Read More »

Mortgage Approval Easier for All Americans

Denial rates are down, with black borrowers showing the biggest jump in access to conventional mortgages. Easing mortgage restrictions seem to be making it possible for more Americans to become homeowners, according to Zillow’s latest analysis on mortgage access and homeownership by race, but minorities are still having a harder time getting a conventional ... Read More »

7 Habits of Remarkably Successful Leaders

Great leaders are made, not born. Maximize your effectiveness by emulating these habits. Every great business needs effective and successful leaders–men and women who can inspire their employees to reach deep within themselves to get things done. Unfortunately, almost 60% of all businesses have a shortage of leadership talent, and this shortage has a negati ... Read More »

Get Financially Fit to Buy Your First Home

While spring is often the time that most people look for houses with the intent to buy, fall and winter are the best time to plan a purchase and determine if you are financially fit to be a homeowner. With interest rates remaining low, home prices in Canada have been rising consistently since 2009. As a result, buying property is becoming more difficult for ... Read More »

6 Ways to Properly Arrange Furniture and Make Your Room Look More Expensive

Decorating your home can be a daunting task, so you head on over to Pinterest with a cup of tea, and approximately 18 hours later, you are on the 12th cup of coffee, your hair is disheveled, your life is in shambles, your husband has left you, but you have seven new perfectly curated Pinterest boards and still no clue where to begin. Sound familiar? Pintere ... Read More »

HUD is about to ban smoking in housing

The Department of Housing and Urban Development is one step closer to making the nation’s public housing 100% smoke free. Back in October 2014, the national agency announced an action plan to rid its properties of tobacco-based products, citing the dangers of second-hand smoke as one major motivation. This white paper was the result of initiatives that star ... Read More »

Four reasons why 2016 is a good time to buy a home

With 2016 fast approaching, now is the time for renters to get off the sidelines, start organizing their finances and take on the excitement of homeownership. But given the recent history of the housing market and Americans’ increasing need to stay mobile, it is understandable that it can be nerve-wracking to invest your hard-earned money in a home. Howeve ... Read More »