Your Valuable Home

In our Replay today, Lisa tells the story of her just-completed kitchen. The project

included the relocation of her washing machine to the upstairs master bedroom. This outside-the-box solution facilitated the expansion of the kitchen. Split HVAC systems require a lot of tubing to be inserted into wall cavities.

In our Horror Story today an installer got creative and ran the tubing on the outside of the house, including over the roof. Unbelievable!

In our Feature segment, singer, songwriter, and author Dar Williams joins Gary Toth and Cynthia Nikitin from the Placemakers Guild for Part 2 of a fascinating discussion of why some towns flourish and others flounder. Dar shares some of the wonderful transformations she’s experienced in cities and towns across America. It’s all in her book, What I Found in a Thousand Towns: A Traveling Musicians Guide to Rebuilding America's Communities-One Coffee Shop, Dog Run, and Open-Mike Night at a Time.

Great question. Please join us as Your Valuable Home addresses the question and what it takes to revitalize a town from two different perspectives: The view of the professional planners and pros of related disciplines who make up The Placemakers Guild. Then on 5/13, singer, songwriter, and author, Dar Williams, joins the conversation and shares some of the wonderous transformations she’s experienced in cities and towns across America. It’s all in her book What I Found

in a Thousand Towns: A Traveling Musicians Guide to Rebuilding Americas

Communities-One Coffee Shop, Dog Run, and Open-Mike Night at a Time. Available at Amazon, of course.

In our Replay today, Kevin explains to a homeowner how windows should be replaced to avoid causing damage to the surrounding stucco.

The Horror Story today comes from Ann, a residential landlord, who reports on an alarming development at one of the HOA-run communities where she has a rental property….a $500 annual assessment against investor owners of properties in the community.

In the feature, we welcome back, Scott Abernathy, a valued Your Valuable Home contributor. Scott is president of his own property management company in Murfreesboro Tennessee, PMI Property Management, President of the National Association of Residential Property Managers (NARPM), lecturer, and author of multiple books, including his latest, KINGPIN LANDLORD: Unlocking the Secrets to Real Estate Investing. Scott shares his wisdom on HOA assessments to absentee landlords and other matters of importance to residential real estate investors. Scott believes, as we do, that residential real estate is the way to wealth for the wise. We’ll keep tabs on the HOA assessment issue.

In the Replay today, we discuss what it takes to make for a successful siding and

window installation – and the difference it can make in the appearance of a home.

In the Horror Story, Kevin reports on a basement remodel that included a kitchen and an electrical nightmare lurking behind the walls.

In our Featured interview, we address the surge in multigenerational living brought on by Covid and the need for financial support and/or care for aging family members. Donna Butts, Executive Director of the DC non-profit Generations United, reports on that organization’s recently released survey of multigenerational homes, and our own Kevin Kennedy and his family are applauded for their multigenerational lifestyle.