Investing In A Smart Home Security System A Must To Defend Against ‘Creatures of Opportunity’ Chances are, in the time you spend reading this story, 9 to 10 American homes will be burglarized. A home heist occurs every 13 seconds in the United States, according to FBI statistics. That equals an average of over a […]
Read Your Policy’s Fine Print on Natural Disasters ACT OF GOD – A manifestation of a violent or destructive natural force, such as a lightning strike or an earthquake, which is beyond human power to cause, prevent or control.” –Webster’s New American Dictionary Not all Acts of God are covered equally. When it comes to […]
Autumn ‘most vital time’ for inspecting your home’s hardest-working element The secrets hard-working roofs keep could fill, well, a roof. Tibetan monks sworn to silence do more talking. Triple deep cover agents have been known to spill the beans more about what’s ailing them than a roof. Roofs plead the fifth more often than a […]
Observation Is Key To Knowing When To Say Goodbye Your 3-year-old daughter starts using the loose hallway floorboards as a teeter-totter. Your beloved poodle Max mysteriously disappears one day while eating his food on the kitchen floor. The dining room floor caves in. Unfortunately, aging floors in need of replacement are rarely this obvious. It’s […]
New State Law Requiring Detectors Designed To Give Homeowners Safe Guard Against Silent Killer No warning. No trace. No odor. No chance. Like a grim reaper in the night, carbon monoxide claims the lives of 430 unsuspecting Americans per year, according to U.S. Centers for Disease Controls statistics. Thankfully, Iowa homeowners will get protection against […]
Know Signs of Walls At Risk of Collapse “Walls protect and walls limit. It is the nature of walls that they should fall.” – English Author Jeanette Winterson No wall stands forever with weak limbs (ever see the Chicago Bears offensive line come the fourth quarter?). Heck, even the legendary, two-millennium-old Great Wall of China […]
Now’s the Time for Iowa Homeowners to Ready Their Flood Defense Plan In one of Mother Nature’s cruelest twists of irony, nearly 10 years to the date of the devastating Iowa floods of 2018, flooded rivers and waters are again threatening numerous towns throughout eastern Iowa. A fury of early June rains have many of […]
As the late, great Don Henley would say, “the heat is on.” Outside, the weather is, in a word, sizzling. It’s so hot the devil has the AC on. A dog is chasing a rabbit and they’re both walking. Even the sidewalk is sweating. “Summer weather has arrived in eastern Iowa,” CBS 2 Cedar Rapids […]
“I grew up in Texas, but that was (long) ago. Last year (2016) in Fort Worth, they had hail the size of softballs. We’re seeing more and more powerful storms, of all types, almost on a biblical level,” Late Actor Bill Paxton (“Twister”) Ice fell from the sky above Vivian, S.D., without warning and mercy on July […]
For millions of American homeowners, this is a beautiful time of year: Tax return season. While it’s only natural to have dreams of new cars, new wardrobes, summer baseball vacations and new grills, one of the smartest moves any homeowner can make with their return is deposit in a home maintenance savings account. But exactly […]
