Maintaining and inspecting your home are the best ways to protect one of your most precious investments. Regardless if you can tackle only a few tasks or more at a time, it is important to make it a habit. Create a maintenance routine for your home and discover that the work is easier and not very time-consuming. Creating a regular schedule of yearly or seasonal maintenance could prevent the most common and costly problems before they occur.

1.Check your roof for icicles or damage, which indicates possible ice dams.

2.Check out your basement for leaks and seepage during thaws.

3.Check out ground-fault circuit interrupters, especially after electrical storms.

4.Avoid frozen pipes when leaving the house for an extended time by opening cabinets to allow heat to reach the pipes and refrain from turning the heat off completely.

Posted in: Home Ownership
Tags: maintenance routine, seasonal maintenance, winter maintenance

“If not you, who? If not now, when?” – Hillel

“A share in the sovereignty of the state, which is exercised by the citizens at large, in voting at elections is one of the most important rights of the subject, and in a republic ought to stand foremost in the estimation of the law.” – Alexander Hamilton

“Let each citizen remember at the moment he is offering his vote that he is not making a present or a compliment to please an individual – or at least that he ought not so to do; but that he is executing one of the most solemn trusts in human society for which he is accountable to God and his country.” – Samuel Adams

“Impress upon children the truth that the exercise of the elective franchise is a social duty of as solemn a nature as man can be called to perform; that a man may not innocently trifle with his vote; that every elector is a trustee as well for others as himself and that every measure he supports has an important bearing on the interests of others as well as on his own.” – Daniel Webster

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Posted in: Patriotism
Tags: vote