Homes With Heart by Heather Coombs-Perez
Homes With Heart – Heather Coombs-Perez
It’s time, once again, for New Year’s resolutions and along with the promises you make to exercise more, eat less, and spend more time with loved ones, it might also be time to take charge of your financial health, starting with a mortgage overhaul. Most homeowners agree that their house payment is not only their best investment, but also their largest monthly expense. With the recent [...]
Homes With Heart – Heather Coombs-Perez
As we celebrate the holidays and 2010 comes to a close, I find myself reflecting on how quickly time seems to pass, while feeling both nostalgic and expectant at the same time. During these moments of reflection, I can’t help but think about how welcoming and warm the holidays always feel when we take some time to sit back and relax, removed for a minute from the hustle and bustle of shopping [...]
Homes With Heart- Heather Coombs-Perez
Welcome to the Holiday Season! Good cheer, empty wallets and time spent with family and friends are the norm. However, decking the halls with boughs of holly could turn your home into a giant bonfire when you mix in candles, dry pine tree needles, and electrical lights that only get used once a year. Culver City Fire Department Fire Prevention Specialist, Broc Harmon, says that the most [...]
Homes with Heart – Heather Coombs-Perez
With the housing market still shaky, and many people underwater in their homes, it’s important to know that there are still options to explore besides foreclosure or a short sale. The Obama Administration’s “Making Home Affordable” program, is a broad strategy for helping keep American’s in their homes by offering multiple ways for homeowners to better their situation. While complex, [...]
Homes With Heart – Heather Coombs-Perez
For the past few weeks there’s been an undeniable chill in the air, and I don’t know about you, but I’ve been using my heater to prevent Jack Frost from nipping at my nose. The bad part about this scenario, is that the resultant increase in my gas and electrical bills will make me act like Scrooge! Which got me thinking…we can send a man to the moon, communicate in a “cloud”, and [...]
Homes With Heart – Heather Coombs-Perez
According to a recent article published by Fidelity National Home Warranty, the day after Thanksgiving causes plumbers to give thanks—or not, depending on how you look at it. With all the preparation cuttings and leftovers that make their way into garbage disposals and down drains, plumbers are kept busy snaking, rooting and replacing outdated, and often-clogged pipes during the [...]
Homes With Heart – Heather Coombs-Perez
“Home is where the heart is” is more than just a sentiment. I truly believe that the energy of a home can be felt by the people living in the house, as well as those visiting. It affects how we interact with others, our comfort level and our emotional state. A warm, inviting home is centered around the memories and experiences that reflect the pivotal role a house plays in our [...]
Homes With Heart – Heather Coombs-Perez
Selling In A Buyer’s Market - If you’ve read the papers or listened to the news over the past year, it will come as no surprise that home prices have fallen and the rate of foreclosure is up. With all the unrest in the market, you might not think it’s a good time to sell—after all, it’s a buyer’s market out there, right? Wrong. However, in a market like we see today, it takes [...]
Homes With Heart – Heather Coombs-Perez
Decrease Your Water Bill and Increase Your Curb Appeal - It’s hot in southern California. And dry. So how do you keep that lush, green lawn looking great throughout the year? You water it, and considering each 500 square feet uses about 3,000 gallons of water to keep it from getting thirsty, you pay out a lot of greenbacks! But there is another way to enhance your curb appeal, and still [...]
New Column ! Homes With Heart By Heather Coombs-Perez
Halloween can be scary, especially when you notice the peeling paint around your windowsills as you’re hanging decorations, or the dust-bunnies in the furnace when you want to take the chill out of the room during those first few cold, fall evenings. But have no fear—a Fall spruce-up can shake the skeletons out of the closet, and brighten up even the dingiest of dark corners. One of the [...]
