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As temperatures drop, many homeowners are leaning the hard way how to find - and shutoff - their main water line. Something we do for our clients is setup tags that act as reminders where the main water line is and how to shut it off. Regardless of the time of year, knowing where the spicket valve is - and how to use is - is invaluable.

Today we're sharing tips for gutter cleaning, ice damning, and winter property manager tips. Especially in areas like Chicago, protecting your home from mother nature is an incredibly important preventative.

The National Weather Service has issued a Winter Storm Warning, so Mark is sharing some winter home maintenance tips that will reduce the risk of your pipes freezing this winter.

We're back at Running Horse Ranch in Idaho. One of our top priorities when buying an investment property is to secure it from mother nature. Tuned up the cedar roof and resealed the logs. Stay tuned for our interior updates!

If you are wondering if you should buy in today's market, you should ask yourself two questions: - Where are interest rates going - Where are home prices going  Rental prices have been increasing since 1988, and that trend is not changing anytime soon. If you wait to buy, you run the risk of home prices going up.

A lot of people are wondering how a recession will affect housing prices. Some organizations predict slight appreciation, some slight depreciation. However, these are national headlines.

More and more economists think a recession is upon us over the next 12 months. So what does that mean for the housing market? The primary time we experienced a housing crisis was when the recession was triggered by the housing crisis in 2008 due to fraudulent loans.  One thing we can learn from history is a recession often triggers a decline in interest rates.

Do the national real estate headlines have you scared about buying in today's real estate market? Today, we're kicking off a series of videos to address the topics of the rise in mortgage rates, pending recession, layoffs, housing prices, and more.

Our Idaho home search lasted for about 9 months.