Home Fire Safety For First Time Home Buyers Part 10 of 12 Woodstoves, are you thinking about using that woodburning stove or fireplace to offset the high cost of heating your home this season?       Most fire deaths occur between 11:00 P.M. to 5:00 A.M.     Many folks consider alternate heating methods such as woodstoves type appliances, that they may have not even used in years, all because of the high cost of heating their home. Using a woodburning stove has not been properly inspected or cleaned, sure can lead to a real serious fire or even carbon monoxide danger in your home. Home Fire Safety For First Time Home Buyers Part 10 of 12 Woodstoves, any wood burning appliance or device needs to be thoroughly inspected and cleanded at least once a year, by a professional. Even if you have... 11/25/2009

Home Fire Safety For First Time Home Buyers Part 11 of 12 Your Escape Plan, more than eighty percent of the fires here in the Unite States occur in homes. Our familys are very familiar with the fire drills, that occur in Schools and some Offices, but too few families have a fire escape plan for their home. Baker Home Commercial Properties Inspections and Consulting urges you and your family to make a Fire Escape plan, and to practice fire drills in your home.     By working on a Fire Escape Plan together, you and your family will then know the safest way out of your home. A very useful tip; after you and your family have completed your Fire Escape Plan, give a copy of the plan to each member of your family. And also post a copy of it in a common area in your home so everyone can look at... 11/24/2009

Home Fire Safety For First Time Home Buyers Part 12 of 12 A Checklist, if your a First Time Home Buyer or a Move up Home Buyer, fire safety sure should be a major concern to you, and your family.       The U.S. has one of the highest fire death rates in the industrialized world. Home fires sure can endup causen death and injury. Last year in the United States. There were 3,320 folks that lost their lives as a result of fires. There were 16,705 folks injured as the result of a fire. There were 118 firefighters killed while on duty. Fire killed more Americans than all natural disasters combined. Eighty four percent of the deaths occurred in homes. An estimated 1.5 million fires occurred in 2008. Many fires are caused by misuse or poor maintenance of electrical devices, careless use of can... 11/23/2009

If your not a ActiveRain RainMaker You need to Sign Up Today, just why should you, will you have already have taken the first step by joining the ActiveRain Real Estate Network community. So why not take the next step, to put your full commitment to your business, and succeeding in haven folks finding you, and the helpful subject matter blog post content you write. By signing up as a RainMaker member.         Then you sure will be able to enjoy the Google Juist, that will help start capturing new Clients. Seen that there is 165,716 folks blogging on the general topic of Real Estate here at this time, your ActiveRain blog posts receive mighty fine SEO, especially for those Local blog posts you write. So when the publie, with are your potential clients start their online searches, can fin... 11/22/2009

A Friday Night Rant, as folks know I sure don't usually write rant blog posts. But theres a leads service company calling me that just won't take No for an answer. Service Magic has called me many times now, the last call come today, they e-mail me at least 4 times a week.     But todays phone call I just could no belive what their so called salesmen said to me! they usual sart out by asken if you can use more business. This time I said I'm doing fine with the areas that use on the net, with geting business. So then he said so you have a website, told him yes, and that I belong to some blogging communitys. And the main blogging community that I use is for Real Estate Professionals, so he goes off and asks, so you selle Real Estate. So I told him, no I do not. Then he comes back with, ho... 11/20/2009

Bring New Life to the Windows of Your Home, Here a little trick, that professional use. Install a curtain rod above your windows to help make them look taller, or use a extra long curtain rod if you'er wanting a window to look wider. Folks find swag curtains are among the easiest for them to installed. Tie a large knot at the tip of the rod. Use a sheer fabric to filter the light and let the swag hang all the way down to the fioor for an elegant look for the room.       Bring New Life to the Windows of Your Home, A tab top panel over a fancy roll type shade works well together. You can use any kind of curtain rod for tab top curtains. A tailored Roman shade is functional as well as smart styling. As with curtains, to help make a window look larger than it really is, install the Roman sh... 11/20/2009

We all need to Help Protect Santa, soon Santa will be arriving at the local malls and stores in your area. Kids look forward to Christmas all year, so we need to be sure to only bring our kids to see Santa if they are in good health. We all need to help protect Santa from coming down with H1N1 Flu.     Can you just imagine, what it must be like to face hundreds or even thousand of kids with sniffling, and sneezing nose's siting on your lap and having them end up rubing their germy selves on you. The only thing at this time Santa will have for protecting himself, is a bottle of hand sanitizer, and hope that parents that have kids that are really sick, will keep their kids at home. We all need to Help Protect Santa, Santa sure can't deliver toys to all the kids all over the world, if he e... 11/19/2009

When You and Your Family are Going on a Trip, Saftey Tips, with the Holidays apon us, some folks might be planning on visiting relatives and or friends, for a day or two, and in some cases even longer. You sure don't want to come back home, to find it has been broken into. So before you and your family pack up the car or your trusty pack mule. Please be certain that your home is and will be protected. A bit of advanced preparation on your part, sure can help protect your little ole homestead while your gone.       Before leaven your home: If your going to be away, for longer than a day or two: Be sure to stop mail and newspaper deliveries, or ask a neighbor or friend to pick up your mail and newspaper daily.     Be sure not to leave empty garbage cans out in sight.   Ask a neighber to k... 11/19/2009

Okay Whats For Lunch, The next time you go out to have a picnic, you just might want to take along some kind of wild nuts and berries food with you. Beare are very curious, highly intelligent, and at times they can be potentially a dangerous animal.     Undue fear of bears sure can endanfer bears and folks a like. There are alot of bears killed every year, by folks just because they are afraid of bears and no other reason. If folks would just respect bears, and learn proper behavior when visiting the territory of bears, sure will help if they should encounter a bear on an outing, then neither of y'all will end up suffering needlessly from the experience. Most of the time bears will avoid folks. And if folks will give a bear the opportunity to do the right thing, they usual will. Okay Wh... 11/18/2009

First New Hampshire Real Estate Professional to Reach 400,000 on ActiveRain, this is truely the first real milestone that I have made it to, in the ActiveRain Real Estate Network community. Back when I first joined ActiveRain in 2007, I sure did not imagine that I'd be the very first New Hampshire member of the community to reach the 400,000 points milestone.   I actually reached this milestone last Tuesday 10 November 2009, but there were two other posts that I wanted to write and post before this one. Plus I was getting ready to go out opening day of Deer season, which was last Wednesday. First New Hampshire Real Estate Professional to Reach 400,000 on ActiveRain, with this 400,000 milestone post I have wrote 619 blog posts now, have made 11,026 comments that count's that is. Seeing t... 11/16/2009

This Post is Dedicated to a Fine Bellingham Wa Inspector, many of you know Steven L. Smith, the owner of King of the House Home Inspection. Not only has he wrote many fine Home Inspection, Localism blog posts for folks to read and learn about Home Inspections and his local area, Steven also writes a series of blog posts called Twin-Pick Music Trivia Quiz, for folks to have some fun.       This is Steven and his Certifried Assistant Nutsy, for those of you that don't know him.     At one time in Steven's life he was in the radio business, I know he wrote in a blog post what did in that line of work, I'm thinking he was a station manager. If you have not visited Steven's blog, be sure to. He a real good guy!   Ok new to get to just why This Post is Dedicated to a Fine Bellingham Wa Inspec... 11/12/2009

Tomorrow 11 Nov. 2009 Should Not At All Be A Speechless Wednesday, usually here in the ActiveRain community, tomorrow is called Speechless Wednesday for some special blog posts. I would like to ask the members of ActiveRain, instead of writing a Speechless Wednesday blog post. Write a blog post that has to do Veterans Day. We could call our blog posts tomorrow Veterans Wednesday!   There are many subjects we can write about to Honor this day for our Veterans and the Men and Women that are servicing to protect our Freedom, and our Country. Tomorrow 11 Nov. 2009 Should Not At All Be A Speechless Wednesday, why not write and blog post that has to do with a Veteran you know, or a someone you know that is serving now. You could write a post, about why you love America, or why your proud to b... 11/10/2009

Roof Inspection Series for First Time Home Buyers and Home Owners, the roof is arguably the single most important component of a home or commercial property building. The primary function of a roof is to keep the weather out of the inside of a building. Your Inspector should be experienced and knowledgeble about the various types of roofs and the materials that are used in your given area of the Country.       Roof Inspection Series for First Time Home Buyers and Home Owners, roofs are composed of various surfaces materials that are used together in order to keep the weather out, that includes rain, sleet, snow, and wind from entering the building. The roof area is constructed with the structure, covers, flashing, gutters, and downspouts. Various elements of the building may penetrate t... 11/08/2009

New Hampshire Deer Hunting Series Part One of Two, deer are New Hampshire's most popular game animal, Firearm's season starts this coming Wednesday 11 November 2009, with a total of around 80,000 deer in all areas of the State of New Hampshire. You can archery hunting started September 15, Muzzleloader season is going on now, and ends on Tuesday the 10th of November 2009.   On opening day of firearm's season, you can take either a buck or a doe. Opening day is the only day you can take a doe.     2009 New Hampshire Deer Season Dates Wildlife Management Units Method/Sex Inclusive Dates Archery Archery   WMU A -- NOTE: In WMU A, archery deer season ends one week early and an antler- point restriction is in place -- bucks must have at least 2 legal points (1 inch or longer) on one side. An... 11/08/2009

New Hampshire Deer Hunting Series Part Two of Two, Firearm Deer Season opens this coming Wednesday 11 November 2009, and goes through to the 6th of December 2009 . Seeing that we have many homes for sale near and even in the woods, and seeing lots of folks enjoy going out in to the woods near their homes. And seeing that New Hampshire hunters are able to hunt in just about any woods in the State. I'd like ask that Home Buyers, Real Estate Agents, and all those that enjoy going out into the woods of New Hampshire, please use Caution at this time of year. You just may want to think about wearing some kind of Hunter Orange clothing when your going to near the woods.   Being a hunter myself, it sure makes me sad to have to say this. But the truth of it is, there are some hunters, that just ... 11/07/2009

Baker's Blogging Homestead is written To Enhance Customer Relationships, Mr. ActiveRain Bob Stewart, layed down another fine Challenge to all the members of the ActiveRain Real Estate Networking community. To write a blog post on just how we Enhance our Relationships with our Existing and New Clients with our blog writing in the ActiveRain community.   Back when I first joined the community, I had not ever read a blog. Now not only do I read and learn from visiting other members blog posts, I've  also had alot of fun writing over 600 blog posts to help others to learn, whether the folks are Real Estate Professionals or the many folks from all over the World, that stop by to visit, along with my Client's, and the folks that will become clients.  Baker's Blogging Homestead is written To E... 11/05/2009

Baker Home Commercial Properties Inspections Blog can help You, Thank You for visiting, and its a pleasure to have you stop by, my little ole Blogging Homestead. I've done my best to keep my blog posts simple and straightforward. I've coverd everything from basic home safety, regular home maintenance, Home and Commercial Properties Inspections. You'll be able to find out about basic household emergencies, plumbing, electrical, and all other things you and your family should be will aware of within your home. Please keep in mind that the blog posts are not a repair manual. And if your home should have a problem come up, then you really should contact the right professional, for that component.       Baker Home Commercial Properties Inspections Blog can help You, What my blog posts are re... 11/05/2009

Home Owners Do you Prevent Fats and Greases from Damaging your Septic, Fats, Oils, and Greases are not just bad for your arteries and waistline, these things are also very bad for your private Septic System  or public Sewer System. A Septic or Sewer System  a overflow or backup can cause health hazards, damage home interiors, and can very will threaten the environment. An increasingly common cause of overflows is sewer pipes being blocked by grease. Grease gets into the sewer from household drains as will as from poorly maintained grease traps in restaurants and other businesses.   Just where dose grease come from? Most of us know grease as the byproduct of cooking. But grease is also found in such things as: Meat fats, lard, cooking oil, shortening, butter and margarine, food scraps, b... 11/03/2009

Real Estate Agents Do You Recommend To Your Clients? I sure hope you do! To have a Mold Inspection and test? What I'm about to to talk with y'all about, could very will be a Halloween nightmare story for a movie.   This here story took place in a home in Greenville, North Carolina. The home had a bookcase with a hidden room behind it, the room had a dark and terrifen secret, along with a note. Seen that one of your buyer clients, may just pick one of Fannie Mae's foreclosed on home. You'll sure want to know about this. Real Estate Agents Do You Recommend To Your Clients? I sure hope you do! as a Real Estate Agent, you just may want to recommend to your buyer clients, to have a Mold Inspection and have the home tested. Even if the home is listed as is. And you just may want to have a tal... 10/23/2009

The First Little Pig had a a Straw Home, that there first little pig, should have had a Home Inspection. Then the big bad wofe would not been able to blow his home down. Folks in Aermica, first started build-en homes with Straw Bales, back in the 1800's. There are folks now a days, that are using the technique to build their home. Did you know theres enough Straw growen in Aermica, to build a half million homes every year. And you very will could save 75 % on heating your home of Steaw Bales.   Straw Bales walls also have an excellent load bearing capacity. Some folks have even duilt them selves a two storey home using Straw Bales. There is one little ole problem for folks that come along, and want to buy a Straw Bale home. Will you see there just not very many Home Inspectors, that kno... 10/18/2009