Tina's Homeowner Library

I'm one of the guilty people who is constantly on the go, trying to do it all ... and I love it. I will admit though, that sometimes I'm too busy to notice some of the more important things in life. I generally hate the silly trivia emails that people send but my husband sent one and he knows how...

One of the things I love best about Active Rain is introducing other people to this great community. Often I suggest people should join the group as to me, AR is the BEST place to learn how to blog. I'm not a realtor, but rather I own My Handyman of Southern NH and many in my personal network are...

While not an expert on generators, I recognize how critical they are for home owners during power outages. We've had several outages in New England these last 2 months, so I've been wanting to do further research and share my findings ... as #1, you MUST insure proper ventilation so the fumes fro...

I am aware that 1,000s of people have (some still) been through hardships due to the recent ice storms and we’re certainly trying to help out in any way we can. At the same time, when we can … we should take time to enjoy the beauty that our state offers, and the icy landscape out in the woods wa...

Hopefully everyone who lost power, or worse is still without power, found a warm place to stay last night. We’re also fortunate that temperatures are rising and most areas of Massachusetts and Southern NH did not go below freezing last night. Unfortunately more than 800,000 customers were still w...

One of the great ways to get ideas for decorating your home is visiting other homes in your area. Several years ago my wonderful Victorian home in Portsmouth, NH was part of the Holiday Home Tour. Jennifer Myers, my decorator/staging friend and I had a wonderful time decorating the house … and th...

I've been using Constant Contact for 1.5 years, with 40 to 50 newsletters published for 2 different companies. I keep running into limitations that make me think it's time to find a new product to create & deliver the newsletters. Here are my requirements ... and if someone can point me to a bett...

I just scheduled a newsletter updating the 4 Walls 1 Roof members and prospects on our upcoming meetings. Then I jumped back to my Active Rain blog ... and had to pause.The chasm between the old world of networking meetings and this wonderful online community is enormous. Even more amazing is the...

In 2005, My Handyman did work for over 1,400 customers, a very different business model than realtors, builders, etc. Our jobs range from 1 hr to several days spread across multiple technicians so our value ad is scheduling, making sure everyone arrives on time and work completed with quality. Th...

I tried submitting 1 post to Localism and categorized it as "general information." I've never been able to find the post on localism. I decided it was time to start reading more Localism posts ... and now I see that we can't bookmark them the same way we do with AR posts?