Hepler Homes Blog
Get Your Home Ready, Spring is Coming
Once that warmer weather hits and spring has sprung, it will be time to take care of some seasonal home maintenance. Winter storms and extreme temperatures can wreak havoc on your outdoor structures and stress the functionality of your systems, so it’s important to get outside and take a look around.
Winchester Breweries and Wineries
Winchester holds 250 years’ worth of history, including George Washington’s first public office, Stonewall Jackson’s headquarters and civil war battlefields, offering visitors a wide variety of things to see and do here. Not a history buff? The quaint old town of Winchester offers something for everyone.
Tips for Babyproofing your New Home
You are moving into your new home and you have a little one, here are some tips and things to take into consideration to babyproof as you move in. Childproofing your home is essential to keeping your baby safe. Be prepared to childproof the nursery, bathroom, kitchen, fireplace, any area of your house that poses a threat to your baby.
Top Ways To Settle Into Your New Home
You bought your new home, now you are starting to feel a little overwhelmed with moving boxes and bubble wrap to focus on anything other than getting your stuff from point A to point B. Besides ensuring a smooth moving process, there are other important things you need to take care of as you’re getting settled into your new home.
Reasons for Downsizing your Home
Downsizing can often be viewed as a rite of passage into retirement. So, when people choose to go smaller earlier in life, it can seem like a step backward. But downsizing isn’t a step back and isn’t only for retirees and empty nesters, it makes sense for a variety of people.
What is the best advice you can give to someone building a home?
We recently polled homeowners and asked them one simple question – If you could give 1 piece of advice to someone building a new house what would it be? We received a lot of great feedback and thought it would be a good list of things to keep in mind for people who are building a new house.
What is the Life Span of a House?
Is this something you have ever thought about? “Does my house have a life span?” It does, however there are many factors to take into consideration here, there is no simple answer. Life expectancies are averages, this means some may last longer and some shorter.
How the Real Estate Market Has Changed
With buyer traffic increasing for the most part, pretty steadily since 2009, you are facing some serious competition and low supply if you are in the market for a new house.
Can a Negative Review Hurt a Builder?
Customer reviews are a very important tool in researching a company. With the internet being so accessible reviews are a large influencer with consumers when deciding on making a purchase.
Do you need Pest Control Services with New Construction?
In a report by the National Pest Management Association, property damages nationwide estimate to be $5 billion due to termites. The U.S. Forestry has developed a Termite Infestation Probability Map, Virginia falls into the moderate to heavy zone for the possibility of termites. This means that as new homes are built, builders need to start the precautions there.
Home Warranties
Building a new custom home is exciting, the last thing you want to think about is that something is going to break or go wrong once you have moved in. Everything is brand new, right? How could something possibly go wrong?
2017 Home Building Trends
In looking at what buyers want here are a couple of trends we are seeing that people are wanting when building a new home in 2017.