By Holly Waldenmyer, President, Building Industry Association of Stark & East Central Ohio After a busy holiday season, you may be ready to relax at home during the remaining winter months. If you’ve been thinking about making home updates, you don’t have to wait until the spring. Housing industry professionals […]
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6 Smart Ways to Pay for Home Improvements
6 Smart Ways to Pay for Home Improvements Duration: 00:50 1 hr ago Thanks to the coronavirus pandemic, […]
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Why It Doesn’t Pay to Skip the Permits When Improving Your Home
Home improvement work can be expensive and time consuming, and you may need to finance your upgrades with personal loans or even by getting a second mortgage. When you’re already spending a lot of money to finance home renovations, it can be frustrating to have to pay for permits — […]
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Popular home improvement projects for 2021 – and how to pay for them
Staying at home during the pandemic has changed the way homeowners renovate, but not always in ways you might expect. You could assume, for example, that homeowners are desperate for privacy and therefore adding more walls. But interior designer Max Humphrey says rumors of the open floor plan’s death, which […]
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Wayfair boosts pay to at least $15 an hour
Online furniture retailer Wayfair boosted its minimum wage to $15 per hour, a move that will benefit 40% of its employees. Wayfair shares rose more than 2% Wednesday, adding to their 7% rally so far in 2021. The company’s stock has skyrocketed over the past year, as the pandemic prompted […]
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Home Depot investing $1 billion annually after employee pay increase
Home Deport has seen record sales numbers as the pandemic has kept customers home and led to a surge in home improvement projects. The company is reinvesting some of that money into its core retail employees, to the tune of $1 billion in costs annually going forward. That investment applies […]
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Some homeowners struggled to pay PACE improvement loans. The coronavirus made it harder
It wasn’t until the work was done that Marcelino and Josefina Rodriguez said they learned the truth. They had been signed up for a roughly $45,000 PACE home improvement loan at nearly 10% interest — even though they said a woman working with the contractor told them their new roof […]