John and Beth are here to share with you their tips and suggestions, as well as interviews with industry experts, with the goal of helping you become a smarter homeowner. Once we buy a home, we now ask ourselves the question... Now what? Today's episode focuses on the value of maintaining your home, including home maintenance and all the different things that we as homeowners need to do to maintain our home. Tune in for advice on everything from preventative maintenance to standard maintenance, what we can save, and how to improve the value of your home!

IN THIS EPISODE:

• [02:00] Standard care of the house.
• [05:00] Health and safety, including smoke detectors and carbon monoxide detectors.
• [10:00] Maintenance and the value of your home.
• [13:00] Increasing your replacement costs if you neglect small 30 minute tasks.
• [17:00] How to be reminded of tasks that need completing.
• [22:00] Should you be doing these tasks yourself or hire a contractor?
• [29:00] Start with the basics to figure out the typical maintenance things you need to do from a preventative standpoint.

KEY TAKEAWAYS:

• Keeping track of home maintenance will add value and save time.
• The difference between doing the tasks yourself or hiring a contractor.
• How to keep track of home tasks that need completing.

BIO:

Elizabeth Dodson is a focused technology entrepreneur with successful skills in business development, sales, marketing and finance with over 20 years of successful management of revenue producing partners. With great organizational skills balancing multiple roles and responsibilities as an entrepreneur and the drive to increase company revenues and user growth for a consumer technology solution with a partner solution to support the homeowner market.

John Bodrozic has start-up entrepreneur experience beginning with bootstrapping, profitable growth, securing venture and corporate venture funding, acquisitions of technology companies, and selling a business to a publicly traded company.