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The Ultimate Home Seller's Step-By-Step Guide To Preparing For Showings

When you're selling your house, it can be tempting to hope that buyers will see past the surface to the beautiful bone structure of your abode and realize what a lovely life they could make in it. But the truth is that most homes could use a little bit [...]

Practical steps for winterizing an occupied, seasonal or vacant home at Apple Valley Lake, including plumbing, heating, exterior and lakefront considerations.

Seven important considerations when buying an Apple Valley lakefront home, including location, water access, docks, seawalls, rules, fees and long-term ownership.

When summer ends, some people cover their patio furniture and stash their gardening tools away until the first sign of spring in the next year. More and more people, however, are embracing the great outdoors outside their homes with a number of interesting [...]

One of the fun parts of owning a lake house at Apple Valley Lake or any Ohio Lake for that matter is opening it up for the season. Unless you plan ahead, you might forget some tasks. Here are a few tips to get the first weekend at the lake off to a good start. 

Your Checklist

To make sure you don't forget anything, write down a checklist [...]

Spring and Summer make it so easy. There’s so much to do. You don’t even have to try that hard to get locked into something. The real challenge comes when the weather cools down and the lake isn’t conducive for swimming or other outdoor [...]

Have you recently purchased a new home or you/re getting ready to move? If so, have you considered creating a checklist to help you remember items that you might otherwise forget? We have compiled a list that you can use when packing up for [...]

Whether you’re enjoying the city life or living the lake life at Apple Valley Lake, you can decorate your home in such a way that makes you feel like you’re living at the lake regardless of where you’re physically located.

The following items are just SOME ideas that you can use in your home to give it that Lakeside feel.

Most of these items can be done for pennies on the dollar or better yet, [...]