An Easy & Effective Way To Make Your House Smell Amazing!

Simply place 2 teaspoons of vanilla extract into a coffee mug and place in a 300 degree oven for 1 hour. The resulting fragrance is warm, welcoming, and reminiscent of freshly-baked cookies.

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7 Reasons To Love Living in Las Vegas

Millions of tourists travel to Las Vegas, Nevada every year as visitors, but for some the trip is one way. What makes so many newcomers want to make Las Vegas their home each year? With a city as diverse as Vegas, it’s natural that there are a multitude of answers. Here are 7 reasons to love living in Las Vegas. Jobs In 2008, a year that spelled financial ruin for so many, Las Vegas was named the second best city for jobs in the US by Forbes magazine, with a 5-year annualized job growth rate of 5.1%. Many of those jobs are in the housing market, which stays strong in Vegas as a result of the continuous population growth. The city also makes its living in big money industries: gambling, conventions and tourism. For entrepreneurs in any of those fields, a move is almost guaranteed to bring in more income. The job market is about much more than just tourism, though. The Nevada Department of Employment, Training and Rehabilitation says that other job areas have also ...

You Can Buy And Sell Real Estate During The Holidays

It's common knowledge that most people are advised to get their home on the real estate market in late spring or early summer as that is "real estate season." While the majority of homes do sell in the spring and summer, listing your home or looking for a home during the holidays or in the winter is not as taboo as some would lead you to believe. There are actual benefits to listing or looking for a home during the holidays, and if you've missed out on the real estate scramble of the spring and summer, starting a home search or listing your home now might just be in your best interest. Here are some of the top reasons why you shouldn't avoid listing your home, or looking for a home, during the holidays. Buyers Never Stop Looking Many would lead you to believe that the real estate market comes to a complete stand still during the holidays or in the winter, but that's not the case. Every state's real estate market is thriving year-round, and that eve...

10 Staging Tips To Get Your Home Sold

Ready to sell your house? Staging rooms to show off their true potential is essential when selling your home. Here are a few staging tips to get your home prepared for the market. 1. SAY BYE TO CLUTTER The best thing you can do for your home for sale is to get rid of all of your clutter! Make a rule for your home that for every new piece that comes in, one must go. One of the biggest factors to a cluttered home is too much furniture. Generally, in a professional staging, half the home owner's furniture is removed to make the house look much bigger. Look around your house and see what you can pack away. It'll be worth the investment to get a storage unit for a couple of months to store away a lot of your furnishings and goods. 2. FURNITURE GROUPINGS It's largely misconceived that furniture pushed directly up against walls make a room look bigger, but this is far from true. Instead, you'll want to float your furniture in reach room and away from the walls....

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