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Caring for your home is a massive undertaking. Just about when you’ve repaired the washing machine, the garage lift breaks or you notice a plumbing leak. Your gutters, which you cleared out in the spring, fill up again after fall leaf drop. Your fickle lawn seems to require more attention than a newborn baby. Welcome to homeownership! To compound the fun, every time you neglect or postpone handling issues with your property that crop up, you lose money. It’s estimated that every dollar of deferred maintenance results in $4 in future repairs. Bottom line? General home repair and maintenance is...

If you’re wondering where to store everything in your home, trust us: buyers are thinking the same thing. Americans are known to spend $1.2 trillion each year on items we don’t need, while the average home size is 4.2% smaller in 2018 than it was in 2015. Understandably, 85% of buyers list garage storage space as a must have on the NAHB’s latest report of what buyers want, especially because a garage is more accessible than a backyard shed or even an attic. We’ve combed through various storage ideas and DIY garage updates from other handy homeowners, so you can...