There’s a moment that homeowners going through financial hardship dread more than almost anything else: finding a notice taped to your front door with blue tape, listing an auction date for your home. It’s a stark, public reminder that things have reached a critical point. And for many people, the instinct is to ignore it—to […]

When you’re walking around an older home—especially one built before natural gas became the standard heating fuel—you might notice a small metal cap or pipe sticking out from the foundation. It’s easy to overlook, but that unassuming little fixture can open up a whole conversation about what’s heating the home, where the fuel is stored, […]

When you’re walking around an older home—especially one built before natural gas became the standard heating fuel—you might notice a small metal cap or pipe sticking out from the foundation. It’s easy to overlook, but that unassuming little fixture can open up a whole conversation about what’s heating the home, where the fuel is stored, […]

  When you’re buying or selling a home, some of the biggest question marks revolve around the systems you can’t always see working until they stop working. Your furnace heats your home reliably—until one cold morning it doesn’t. Your water heater provides hot showers day after day—until suddenly it’s giving you an ice-cold wake-up call. […]