How To Guides

You’ve scrolled through countless listings, walked through a blur of rentals, and finally found what feels like the one. The pictures? Fantastic. The neighborhood seems just right.

Renting an apartment or house isn’t just about looking through online ads, choosing a few apartments or homes you want to tour, filling out an application, and putting down a deposit. Those things are all necessary and important.

Navigating the world of real estate can reveal an abundance of terminology and phrasing around the topics of renting and buying that for some may seem like a brand-new language.

Getting your apartment ready for the holidays can be exciting but sometimes challenging in a smaller space. Here are some modern tips to keep things festive, safe, and inviting this season.

Maybe you are just now experiencing winter this year or maybe you are in an area that's been hit several times by the freezes, ice overs and wintery mixes.

Let’s be real: bathrooms can quickly turn into a chaotic mess. With all the foot traffic they get, they’re basically a reflection of your cleaning game.

If you are entertaining at your place for Thanksgiving this year, you seriously better get to cracking. Trust me...you don't want to wait until the last minute to get things done because if you do...

You had some posters and frames hung up on the walls with tacks and nails, but now you've decided to redesign your place, take them down, and move a few onto a different wall in your apartment.

The kitchen doesn't need much furniture, but it does require appliances and tools. Some apartment dwellers think all they need is a coffee machine, but that's far from the truth.

So you are almost done decorating your new apartment. You've followed our checklists for the perfect kitchen and living room, but what is next? Well - no living room is complete without a complimentary bedroom to match.

It's time to hook up the bathroom in your apartment. I am not talking about making the plumbing work as hopefully that has already been done.

So you have recently moved into your new apartment and now comes the time to fill it up with all the right pieces. Maybe not. Maybe you have been living there for a long time, but want to make sure you have all the right stuff.

Let's take a journey through what an image of havoc, mayhem, and disarray my closet has looked like recently.

We know the common scenario: The junk is piling up and space is running out.

Because of inflation, keeping your apartment as warm this winter as you did last winter could cost you an estimated 11 % more.

How messy is the shower in your apartment? Do you have haircare product bottles, soap, puffs, shaving cream, razors and who knows what else lining the base of your tub?

We all dread the terrible, headache causing move, don't we?

Happy Hour is over at midnight and your place is the suggested location for your group to continue the evening of fun and to “straighten up” before hitting the road all the way home.

There are literally hundreds upon hundreds of tips out there to help residents live the green life in their apartments.