• Sample Page

Hanover Mortgages

The Refined Mortgage Lending Company & Home Loan Lenders

DIY

5 Productive Things To Do Around the House in 5 Minutes or Less

January 27, 2023 by Brett Tams

There are a million excuses for your home becoming disorganized, but there’s only one way to solve it – set up a cleaning plan that works…

The post 5 Productive Things To Do Around the House in 5 Minutes or Less first appeared on Century 21®.

Posted in: Checking Account, DIY, Home, Home Improvement, Real Estate Tagged: 2, All, bathroom, before, Blog, century21, Clean, cleaning, cooking, declutter, DIY, estate, Family, Financial Wize, FinancialWize, home, Home Improvement, house, junk drawer, kitchen, laundry, list, Make, Minimalist, needs, Original, Other, plan, productivity, Real Estate, room, time

Be My Guest: How to Style a Guest Room

January 27, 2023 by Brett Tams

Hosting friends and family members means that you get to spend quality time with people you love. Make your guests feel at home. These tips…

The post Be My Guest: How to Style a Guest Room first appeared on Century 21®.

Posted in: Bank Accounts, DIY Tagged: at home, bathroom, bedding, bedroom, before, Blog, Books, century21, Closet, Clothes, color, Decor, DIY, Essentials, estate, Family, Financial Wize, FinancialWize, flowers, furniture, good, guest, guest room, guests, healthy, home, home décor, Home Decor, Home Improvements, house, How To, Lifestyle, Make, makeup, offer, organize, paint, paint colors, pillows, quality, ready, room, sleep, space, stock, Style, time, tips, title, will

My $3500 Tiny House, Explained

January 27, 2023 by Brett Tams

One of the nicest new trends of recent years is really the revival and rebranding of something very old: the smaller dwelling. Over the last few months, I have built just such a structure, and it has turned out to be a rather cool experience. In fact, I’m typing this article for you from within […]

Posted in: DIY, Money Tips, Real Estate Tagged: 2, acquisition, air, airbnb, All, Amazon, Amenities, app, Backyard, basic, bathroom, beach, beach town, bedroom, before, big, Big Picture, Budget, build, building, Built, business, Buying, car, chance, Cities, Colorado, communal living, construction, cost, couple, craigslist, Credit, credits, custom, decades, desk, DIY, downsizing, driveway, electric, existing, experience, Financial Wize, FinancialWize, fire, fire pit, floor, frugal, fun, funny, furniture, garage, garden, General, goal, good, Google, Grilling, heat, heating, hole, home, home office, home selling, homes, house, house construction, household, Housing, ideas, impact, Income, job, kitchen, LA, Las Vegas, learned, lessons, Life, Lifestyle, lighting, list, Live, living room, Local, low, Main, Make, making, markets, memories, minimalism, mobile, modern, money, More, Mortgage, Move, movie theater, movies, Music, needs, neighbors, new, office, Other, outdoor, pipes, plan, platinum, plumbing, pool, Popular, pressure, productivity, project, protection, quality, ready, Real Estate, renovation, Rent, rental, renting, rewards, rich, right, RV, Sanctuary, save, second, selling, shower, simple, single, small house, space, Spending, stage, story, Style, suburbs, summer, summer heat, swimming, The MMM Blog, time, timing, town, traditional, Travel, trend, trends, under, wall, wealth, weather, WiFi, will, windows, winter, Wisconsin, wood, work, Yard

Small Changes, Big Differences: 5 Low-Cost Ways to Give Your Home a New Look

January 27, 2023 by Brett Tams

There are a lot of advantages to home improvement changes. They can make your space feel more modern, larger, and increase its value. And the…

The post Small Changes, Big Differences: 5 Low-Cost Ways to Give Your Home a New Look first appeared on Century 21®.

Posted in: Checking Account, DIY, Home, Home Improvement, Real Estate Tagged: 2, accent, accent walls, big, Blog, brown, Buy, century21, chance, chocolate, color, cost, Decor, design, desk, DIY, estate, Financial Wize, FinancialWize, fireplace, floor, front, front door, good, hardwood, hardwood floors, home, home décor, Home Improvement, house, How To, improvement, install, low, Make, modern, More, new, News, Other, paint, painting, Real Estate, safety, simple, space, steel, Style, value, wall, wallpaper, will, wood

5 Easy DIY Ways to Boost Energy Efficiency

January 27, 2023 by Brett Tams

The telltale orange leaves and nip in the air means it’s that time again: Fall’s cool breezes will soon give […]

The post 5 Easy DIY Ways to Boost Energy Efficiency appeared first on Apartment Living Tips – Apartment Tips from ApartmentGuide.com.

Posted in: DIY, Fix And Flip Tagged: 2, air, apartment, Apartment Living, apartment tips, appliances, before, big, Blog, Buy, Clean, cooking, cost, credits, DIY, DIY Projects, efficient, energy, Fall, Financial Wize, FinancialWize, fun, green, guide, heat, home, Home Improvement, how to live green, improvement, landlord, Live, maintenance, Make, market, money, More, needs, Other, Pet, projects, right, running, save, saving money, Spring, stock, time, tips, wall, wants, weather, will, windows, work

Let’s Clear the Air: DIY All-Natural Air Fresheners

January 26, 2023 by Brett Tams

A good-smelling room has more of an impact than you might think Smell is a catalyst for emotions. According to Rachel Hertz, “The reason why…

The post Let’s Clear the Air: DIY All-Natural Air Fresheners first appeared on Century 21®.

Posted in: Bank Accounts, DIY, Home Tagged: 2, air, air freshensers, All, Blog, Buy, cents, century21, Clean, clear, Decor, DIY, DIY Projects, Emotions, estate, expensive, Financial Wize, FinancialWize, flowers, food, fruit, fun, good, great, healthy, heat, herbs, history, home, homes, impact, Make, making, memories, More, natural, Other, paint, Personal, projects, Recipes, safe, scnets, simple, space, story, unique, will, wood

Should You Learn The DIY Skills Previous Generations Learned?

January 26, 2023 by Brett Tams

In our dual income society, many of the DIY skills older generations learned have disappeared. We’re used to outsourcing everything. But should we?

The post Should You Learn The DIY Skills Previous Generations Learned? appeared first on Bible Money Matters and was written by Melissa. Copyright © Bible Money Matters – please visit biblemoneymatters.com for more great content.

Posted in: DIY, Life Hacks Tagged: 2, All, author, Backyard, Buy, car, Children, Clothes, Clothing, cooking, cost, data, DIY, energy, entry, Extra Income, Family, Financial Wize, FinancialWize, food, Frugality, garden, great, grocery, home, house, How To, Income, kids, Learn, learned, Live, Local, maintenance, Make, Make Money, making, money, Money Matters, More, more money, Other, Outsourcing, property, quality, Raising a Family, routine, sales, save, Save Money, Saving, School, shopping, Side Hustles, society, time, versus, work, working

An introduction to square-foot gardening

January 25, 2023 by Brett Tams

I grew up in the country. My family always had a vegetable garden. For us, gardening meant a large plot, plowed and raked, then planted with long, widely-space rows of vegetables. It also meant weeding and hoeing, weeding and hoeing. Lots and lots of weeding and hoeing.

Gardening was a chore.

When my ex-wife and I bought our first home, we both wanted a vegetable garden, but we didn’t want the drudgery that came with it. Besides, we didn’t have a big space in the country — we had an average city lot. Fortunately, we discovered Mel Bartholomew’s Square-Foot Gardening.

Bartholomew’s method allowed us to enjoy reasonable crop production in a small space. With his technique, almost any homeowner can grow her own food.

How Square-Foot Gardening Works

The square-foot gardening concept is simple: Build a raised bed. Divide the space into sections of one square-foot each. Lastly, plant vegetables (and/or flowers) in just the amount of space they need.

The advantages of this system include reduced workload, less watering, easy weeding (and not much of it), and easy access to your crops. This is a great way to learn to grow some of your own food.

Back in the 1990s, Kris and I had raised beds similar to these (from Flickr user johnyaya).

raised beds

We built our square-foot garden one Saturday in mid-April. I spent the morning constructing three raised beds out of two-by-sixes. Each bed was twelve feet long, four feet wide, and twelve inches tall. At the time, I most certainly was not a handyman, yet I was able to build these in just a few hours. It was fun.

Digging was less fun.

I spent the afternoon double-digging three patches in our lawn. We maneuvered the frames into place, leveled them, and then filled them with rich soil (purchased from a nearby nursery-supply center). Finally, we created a grid over each bed using tacks and twine. When we were finished, our raised beds looked like orderly grids.

After we built the raised beds and outlined the growing space, we followed the guidelines in Bartholomew’s book.

Posted in: DIY, VA Loans Tagged: apartment, basic, beds, big, bucket, build, city, country, data, deck, DIY, Family, Financial Wize, FinancialWize, first home, flowers, food, frost, Frugality, fun, garden, gardening, good, great, Grow, herbs, hold, hole, home, Home & Garden, Homeowner, journey, layout, Learn, Local, Make, More, new, nursery, Orchard, Other, Planning, plants, productivity, Purchase, ready, Review, rich, sales, single, small space, space, Spring, square-foot gardening, summer, title, walking, weather, winter, Yard

Airstream Dream Team: These Women Travel the Country, Turning Retro RVs into Homes

January 20, 2023 by Brett Tams

Vintage is so very in vogue. These women left their full-time jobs to remodel Airstreams. Their first client project is a 1976 Sovereign.

Posted in: DIY, Student Finances, Unique Homes Tagged: 2, All, art, basic, bills, blue, bonus, business, Buying, coffee, College, commute, construction, cost, couch, country, couple, custom, design, dining, divorce, DIY, dream, Family, Financial Wize, FinancialWize, first home, flooring, front, fun, gap, heat, home, homes, industry, items, jobs, learned, Life, Live, Local, Luxury, Make, making, miles, mobile, modern, More, Move, new, Other, photography, plan, project, puzzle, ready, remodel, remodeling, renovate, renovation, renovations, rental, School, second, Sell, shower, Spending, story, summer, teaching, tiny homes, Travel, Unique Homes, Video, will, woman, women, wood, work, working, young, youtube, Zillow

How I learned to stop worrying and love DIY

January 12, 2023 by Brett Tams

“Oh good,” Kim said when I rolled out of bed yesterday morning. “I’m glad you’re up.” She gets up at 5:30 for work most days, but I tend to sleep in. Especially during allergy season.

“Huh?” I grunted. It was 6:10 and I was very groggy. My evening allergy meds kick my butt. Plus, I hadn’t had my coffee yet.

“Something’s wrong with the bathroom sink,” she said. “Look. It’s leaking. The floor is soaked.” She wasn’t kidding. The bathmat was drenched. When I looked under the vanity, I was greeted by a small lake.

“Ugh,” I grunted. This wasn’t how I wanted to start my day.

Kim kissed me goodbye and hurried off to work. I pulled on a pair of pants, poured some coffee, pulled out the vanity drawers, and got to work.

I was worried that I might have caused the leak when I replaced the sink’s pop-up assembly last month, but no. The problem was obvious: The hot water line to the bidet (which I installed in October) had worked itself loose. (By the way, I love my bidet. Too much information, perhaps, but it’s some of the best sixty bucks I’ve ever spent.)

The water line to the bidet

Fortunately, the fix was simple. I reattached everything, then added a light layer of tape to prevent similar problems in the future.

Note: As a safety measure — to make sure I wasn’t missing anything — I took photos of the issue and made a trip to the hardware store to ask their advice. They told me everything should be fine.

This might seem like a small thing to some folks but it’s a big deal in my world. You see, I’ve never really been a DIY type of guy. I used to get overwhelmed by home improvement. I felt unprepared, incompetent.

More and more, though, I’m learning that I can do it myself. It just takes patience and perseverance. And the more projects I complete, the more confidence I gain.

Posted in: DIY, Personal Finance Tagged: action, advice, All, Amazon, ask, bathroom, beds, before, big, Borrow, build, building, Buy, Buying, car, Christmas, coffee, condo, contractors, country, couple, deck, discover, divorce, DIY, DIY Projects, electric, experience, experts, Family, farmhouse, Financial Wize, FinancialWize, fire, fire pit, floor, front, Frugality, fun, gardening, good, great, home, Home & Garden, Home Improvement, home repairs, homeownership, house, How To, improvement, job, jobs, kitchen, kitchen cabinets, lake, Laundry Room, Learn, learned, library, Life, lighting, list, Live, Make, mindset, money, More, needs, neighbors, new, Orchard, organization, Other, paint, photos, porch, present, project, projects, Psychology, Purchase, questions, remodeling, Rent, risk, safety, sleep, space, stage, summer, Super Bowl, tools, under, wall, work, working, Yard, youtube
1 2 … 7 Next »

Archives

  • January 2023
  • July 2022
  • June 2022
  • May 2022
  • April 2022
  • March 2022
  • February 2022
  • January 2022
  • December 2021
  • November 2021
  • October 2021
  • September 2021
  • August 2021
  • May 2021
  • April 2021
  • March 2021
  • February 2021
  • January 2021
  • October 2020

Categories

  • Account Management
  • Apartment Communities
  • Apartment Decorating
  • Apartment Hunting
  • Apartment Life
  • Apartment Safety
  • Auto
  • Auto Insurance
  • Auto Loans
  • Bank Accounts
  • Banking
  • Borrowing Money
  • Breaking News
  • Budgeting
  • Building Credit
  • Building Wealth
  • Business
  • Car Insurance
  • Car Loans
  • Careers
  • Cash Back
  • Celebrity Homes
  • Checking Account
  • Cleaning And Maintenance
  • College
  • Commercial Real Estate
  • Credit 101
  • Credit Card Guide
  • Credit Card News
  • Credit Cards
  • Credit Repair
  • Debt
  • DIY
  • Early Career
  • Education
  • Estate Planning
  • Extra Income
  • Family Finance
  • FHA Loans
  • Financial Advisor
  • Financial Clarity
  • Financial Freedom
  • Financial Planning
  • Financing A Home
  • Find An Apartment
  • Finishing Your Degree
  • First Time Home Buyers
  • Fix And Flip
  • Flood Insurance
  • Food Budgets
  • Frugal Living
  • Growing Wealth
  • Health Insurance
  • Home
  • Home Buying
  • Home Buying Tips
  • Home Decor
  • Home Design
  • Home Improvement
  • Home Loans
  • Home Loans Guide
  • Home Ownership
  • Home Repair
  • House Architecture
  • Identity Theft
  • Insurance
  • Investing
  • Investment Properties
  • Liefstyle
  • Life Hacks
  • Life Insurance
  • Loans
  • Luxury Homes
  • Making Money
  • Managing Debts
  • Market News
  • Minimalist LIfestyle
  • Money
  • Money Basics
  • Money Etiquette
  • Money Management
  • Money Tips
  • Mortgage
  • Mortgage News
  • Mortgage Rates
  • Mortgage Refinance
  • Mortgage Tips
  • Moving Guide
  • Paying Off Debts
  • Personal Finance
  • Personal Loans
  • Pets
  • Podcasts
  • Quick Cash
  • Real Estate
  • Real Estate News
  • Refinance
  • Renting
  • Retirement
  • Roommate Tips
  • Saving And Spending
  • Saving Energy
  • Savings Account
  • Side Gigs
  • Small Business
  • Spending Money Wisely
  • Starting A Business
  • Starting A Family
  • Student Finances
  • Student Loans
  • Taxes
  • Travel
  • Uncategorized
  • Unemployment
  • Unique Homes
  • VA Loans
  • Work From Home
hanovermortgages.com
Home | Contact | Site Map

Copyright © 2023 Hanover Mortgages.

Omega WordPress Theme by ThemeHall