Home Improvement Posts

30Jan
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New Job

Guest post written by my buddy Bernardo Graham

I just got a new job and moved to Arizona. I am really excited about living here. I think it is going to be an adventure. I do not know anything about this state and I do not have any family or friend nearby. I am going to have to do a lot of exploring as I start my new life here. I was able to go ahead a buy a house that is very convenient to my work and all of the big restaurants and stores. Since I do not know anyone around and I am not familiar with the area, I think I am going to have a security system installed. I would just feel safer with a security system and I know that my family would feel better about me living by myself in another state if I had a security system in my house. I googled “glendale home security” and found a company that was affordable and they said they could install the system within a few days. Now that I have that taken care of, I can move on to more important things, such as finding the best restaurants in town and the nearest mall.

Posted by Monica in Around the House, Business, Computers and/or Internet, Family, Home Improvement, Life, Shopping and tagged with , , , ,
24Jan
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Apartment Mailbox Issues

We have some low income apartment buildings located just a few blocks down the road from our place. It is such a run down, horrible looking place, owned by one of the well known slum lords in the city. The majority of the tenants are Latinos, who are just trying to make a living and take care of their families, just like most of us are doing and I have no problem with that. It’s a darn shame that these apartments were kept up better, and I know that I’m not the only one that feels that way.

When we walk or drive by you can see how bad it is. The broken bottles, trash and other various litter issues are a huge issue, inside and out. Right inside the doorway you can see that they need a better type of apartment mailboxes. The current ones are all busted, doors missing or hanging off which leaves their mail totally unsecured and strewn all about the door yard and hallway. I know that a better set of  cbu mailboxes set out front of the buildings would be in order here and I’ve called and left numerous messages with the business office asking them to look into the purchasing of and installing some good quality  cluster mailboxes for their tenants. They deserve to have their US mail safe and secure just like anyone else does. Slumlords are the worse, I wish there was something else that I could do for these people.

Posted by Monica in Finances, Home Improvement, Local and tagged with , , ,
23Jan
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Companian Arbor With Bridgehampton Swing

Getting my hands dirty has always been good therapy for me. I can’t wait for Spring to finally arrive so that I can get busy with all of the things that need to get done outside, and there are a lot of things that need tending to that will certainly get my hands dirty. I have always wanted a nice arbor in the yard so I have been looking around at some nice wooden arbors that are available online. Was I surprised at how many arbors there are out there these days and all of the different materials that are being used for today’s garden arbors.

What I wouldn’t give to be able to order one of these wonderful Companian Arbors with a Bridgehampton Swing. You would never see me inside the house at all if we had one of these babies out back. My grandparents had a swing simular to this that all of the grandchildren adored playing on every chance that they could when we went over for our visits with them. I wonder what happened to that wonderful swing.

Posted by Monica in Around the House, Family, Garden, Home Improvement, Memories, Shopping, Technology and tagged with , , , ,
14Jan
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Future Steel Buildings

When my husband and I first moved into this house, one of the things my hubby said he wanted to do as soon as possible is to construct a big storage shed/garage/work shop in the back yard. Something along the line of the type of building that Future Steel Buildings sells would do the trick nicely.

We have discussed this desire several times since then, and we have finally agreed that since we took in a few more people to live with us, we could use the extra storage space that a Future steel buildings garage would provide. I have applied for a home equity line of credit with our local bank and my husband has started to look around for the kit that we can afford that will meet our needs. He wants to have enough room in there for three vehicles and a commercial lift so when he works on his cars he doesn’t have to crawl underneath it. I hope my hubby realizes that our budget will only go so far!

Posted by Monica in Around the House, Automotive, Family, Home Improvement, Life, Shopping, Technology
08Jan
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The Importance of Mailboxes

Commercial Mailboxes, Residential Mailboxes and Apartment Mailboxes have come a long way in the past few decades. It has come to the attention to the masses that having your mailbox display your last name and the street numbers on your mailbox and in plain sight for the emergency personnel to utilize is in your best interest.

There has been so many stories in the news about people seeking assistance from our police or fire departments that have not gotten the help that they needed because these emergency personnel can’t find their location due to the lack of necessary information available to them on our mailboxes.

If we rely on this people to come to our aid, it seems the least we could do is make it easier for them to find them and have our Mailboxes have the right information displayed for them to find us in our time of need. They have a good selection of mailboxes for us to choose from these days. Justcommercialmailboxes.com has a good amount of products to check out they even have Cluster Mailboxes there, if you have the need.

Posted by Monica in Around the House, Business, Health, Home Improvement, Opinion, Shopping, Tips & Words of Wisdom
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