Essential Projects to Complete Before Selling Your Home
When selling your home, you no doubt want to ensure that you get the best price possible. It’s important to know what to do in advance to boost your home’s selling price and help your home to sell quickly and above asking price. Which projects should you tackle prior...
How to Succeed When Buying a Home Solo
Buying your first Alaskan home is one of the biggest financial decisions that you can make! Traditionally people think of buying a home as a newly married couple sharing the financial and emotion burden of their new forever home. These days financial independence or...
Small Changes That Can Make Your Home Look Bigger
Even if our homes are small, we can make them feel bigger with a few small changes or smart renovations. We don’t need to reinvent the wheel because the many people that have come before us have helped us to find creative ways to make our homes feel more spacious....
Backyard Upgrades to Enhance Your Space
Our outdoor spaces, especially in Alaska during the summer, are the places where we want to spend most of our free time. Our backyard spaces are worth the time and investment since they are our secret oasis in a busy world. As a sanctuary, our backyards deserve to be...
The 411 on Creating a Budget for a New Home
Are you finally ready for the next step? Buying your first home is one of the biggest purchases we make in our life. We spend our life dreaming of our future home and then one day we can finally make it a reality. Before you jump into this huge financial decision,...
How to Prepare Your Guests for Their Alaskan Experience
Living in Alaska, we might take for granted that our out of state visitors will know how to experience Alaska safely. During the summer months we may have guests come stay with us from the lower 48. Our guests might need to have a slight heads up about how to stay...
5 Tips for First-Time Alaskan Home Buyers
Are you ready to buy your first Alaskan home? There are many pivotal points in life that we consider part of ‘adulting’ and one of the main big purchases in our lives is our first home. There’s a lot that we aren’t taught growing up about buying our first home. This...
How to Boat Safely in the Alaskan Summer
Summer is officially here, at least that’s what the calendar says. It’s now peak boating season here in Alaska. Recreational boating is a fun way to explore our Alaskan waterways and chill together as a family. Yes, these adventures are full of fun and leisure, but...
What to Expect When Moving to Alaska
There is nothing quite like living in Alaska. If you’ve decided to make Alaska your home, or you’re considering a move you’re in for a treat. Everyone’s experience is different, but you won’t really know until you go. There are many things people have already heard...
Simple Upgrades to Make a Rental Feel Like Home
Living in a rental has its ups and downs. We all want to make our house feel like a home and personalize it to our tastes and needs. The only problem with renting, is that you must consider your security deposit and keep the home in the condition in which you received...
Increase Your Alaskan Home Value While Respecting the Earth
Earth day is on everyone’s mind this month. We are always looking for ways to protect the environment and improve the earth for our children and future generations. On Earth Day we all take a moment and reflect on the changes that we can make personally. Costs of...
Mistakes to Avoid When Changing up Your Alaskan Home Design – Part 2
In our last article we started sharing some tips about mistakes to avoid when changing up your Alaskan home design. If you end up having to sell your home making the wrong choices when it comes to renovations could affect potential buyer offers. Removing a bathtub,...