1. Prevent costly repairs.
-Home repairs can be expensive if they're not caught in time. Maintaining your home can help you find and correct potential problems before they take a chunk out of your wallet.
2. Keep your home and its systems humming.
-Staying on top of home maintenance ensures that your homes and its systems work well when you need them.
3. Improve salability of the home.
-Most buyers want a home that's been well taken care of, and will pay closer to list price for it.
Home Maintenance Checklist for the Fall:
- Clear gutters of debris before the weather changes
- Inspect the roof
- Have your chimney cleaned and inspected, if you didn't do it in the spring.
- Check for leaks and drafts, and repair them.
- Get your furnace inspected and repaired.
- Install storm windows.
- Test your smoke and carbon monoxide detectors. Change the batteries in them, if necessary.