HOME MANAGEMENT

Home management is the process of preserving, protecting, improving and maintaining your home. Although most of us think of home management as maintenance, it is really the process of making the most of your home. Managing a home is a skill in itself and if we are not trained for it, it can be very daunting. But we can learn and evolve as we go along. As the kids grow we can get them to help so they learn early and are not as daunted when they grow up.

Preserving Your Home
Preservation means making something last, or keeping it alive. You perform home preservation every time you clean your home. Painting adds beauty to your home, but also and preserves the underlying materials. When you change your air filter, you are preserving the quality of your home environment. These are only a few of the things you do today to preserve your home.
Preservation also takes the form of beautification. Smart homeowners look to preservation as their first line of defense in the protection of their home.

Protecting Your Home
Protection means defending or guarding against attack and shielding from danger. There are a number of dangers your home encounters every day. As a homeowner, you need to understand threats to your home and have the ability to predict what the most common threats are likely to be - and thwart them.
Biological threats like rot and mold are not only expensive to repair, but can be threatening to the health of the occupants. If you look the other way, the costs to eliminate them can quickly amount to more than the value of your home.
Natural threats like termites, insects and water infiltration should be managed. Another group of threats includes the companies (or people) that work on your home causing physical threats to your property. With a challenging economy, theft and larceny are rising to record levels.

Enhancing Your Home
Enhancing means raising something to a higher degree, intensifying and magnifying. By improving and enhancing your home, you do not only increase the livability of your home, but also increase its value over time. A home with a kitchen that is 30 years old is not as appealing or as livable as a 30-year-old home with a new kitchen. Whether your home is new or several hundred years old, keeping it up to date is an essential element of home ownership.

What is The Best Way to Manage Your Home?
Homeowners wanting to manage their homes have two choices: manual or automated. Manual management is the process of going it alone. If you are knowledgeable about your home, its systems and maintenance, this strategy might work for you. If you are like most homeowners, an automated solution is clearly a better choice in terms of costs and capabilities. In fact, an effective home management solution is a homeowner's most valuable asset.