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Backyarding With a Purpose: Know Your Personality Type

Backyarding With a Purpose: Know Your Personality Type

Backyarding – the trend to use the backyard for everything from tele-working and working out to relaxing and recreating – has a different purpose for each of us. Identifying your backyard’s role in your family’s health and happiness is the key to cultivating a...

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How to Create the Perfect Outdoor Living (and Work) Room

How to Create the Perfect Outdoor Living (and Work) Room

It’s time for pandemic-weary homeowners to ready yards and landscapes for backyarding. Yes, backyarding is a word – and one that we all need right now. The pandemic thrust us into a new reality, and the backyard has a starring role. With a year of limitations on where...

New Home? Avoid These Common Mistakes in Your Yard

New Home? Avoid These Common Mistakes in Your Yard

Millions of Americans moved during the pandemic – many to homes with bigger yards for outdoor living. The trend of spending more time in the family yard – a.k.a. “backyarding” – is good for our health and well-being, and it creates a safe place to make memories with...

Backyarding is a Trend and It’s Here to Stay

Backyarding is a Trend and It’s Here to Stay

Backyarding. Yes, it’s a word. The pandemic thrust us into a new reality, and the backyard has a starring role. With limitations on where we can go, how we can gather, and who we can connect with, our yards and other managed landscapes became a safe haven. Backyarding...

How to Help Buyers See a Backyard’s Pet Potential

How to Help Buyers See a Backyard’s Pet Potential

No one knows and appreciates spending time in the family yard (a.k.a. “backyarding”) like the family dog. During the pandemic, pet ownership has increased, and pets have provided companionship, consistency and joy to families over the last year especially. According...

Wise Winter Weather Safety Tips for Pet Lovers

Wise Winter Weather Safety Tips for Pet Lovers

Pets are an important part of the family and a big consideration for many seeking a new home, perhaps now more than ever before since a growing number of families have used their time at home to adopt and foster a family pet. Research shows that during the coronavirus...

7 Reasons Why Getting Outside in Winter is Good for Us

7 Reasons Why Getting Outside in Winter is Good for Us

Winter can be tough on people in the best of times, but it is particularly challenging during a global pandemic. Throughout the spring, summer and fall, the outdoors – including our yards, parks, and sports fields – were critical for buoying our mental well-being,...

Snow & Ice Tips to Protect Yards This Winter

Snow & Ice Tips to Protect Yards This Winter

With the pandemic keeping people sheltering at home, more people are extending their outdoor time in the winter by adding fire pits, outdoor heaters and other features. Even in the wintertime, it’s important to take care of your yard. The Outdoor Power Equipment...

10 Tips for Safe Winter Generator Usage

10 Tips for Safe Winter Generator Usage

If your electricity goes out due to snow and ice this winter, a generator can keep power flowing to your home. The Outdoor Power Equipment Institute (OPEI), an international trade association representing small engine, utility vehicle and outdoor power equipment...

De-stress in Your Own Back Yard

De-stress in Your Own Back Yard

While adults are home teleworking, and kids are at home participating in online educational instruction (we hope), it’s even more important during these challenging times to take a moment to get out into the family yard. The TurfMutt Foundation reminds families that...

Clearing the White Stuff with Safety in Mind: Snow Thrower 101

Clearing the White Stuff with Safety in Mind: Snow Thrower 101

For sellers who are trying to keep their property in “showing shape” over the winter and for new buyers who have just moved into their home, a snow thrower (a.k.a. snow blower) can make quick work of snow removal chores. The Outdoor Power Equipment Institute (OPEI)...

Living Landscape New Year’s Resolutions for Realtors & Sellers

Living Landscape New Year’s Resolutions for Realtors & Sellers

Even though the real estate business traditionally slows down at this time of year, the turn of the New Year is a great time for Realtors to encourage clients to plan yard and garden projects that will have buyers swooning in the spring. The living landscape at a...

Winter Curb Appeal Checklist

Winter Curb Appeal Checklist

Creating curb appeal is important in real estate and can increase value by as much as 17%. But it can be challenging to achieve in the cold weather months. Here is a list of to-dos from the Outdoor Power Equipment Institute (OPEI) that can help sellers create a good...

Use Cold Winter Days to Plan for Spring Landscape Projects

Use Cold Winter Days to Plan for Spring Landscape Projects

When winter hits, especially like the winter so much of the United States in experiencing, it can seem like spring will never come. But, there is no time like the present for homeowners to start planning lawn and landscape projects and the Outdoor Power Equipment...

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