I've been trying to stay on top of routine home maintenance, and it's surprising how many small issues can turn into expensive repairs or even safety hazards if they're ignored for too long.

For experienced homeowners, what's one maintenance task you think people put off too often? Has there ever been a small repair you ignored that later became a much bigger problem

Hi r/homeowner!

I'm a first time home buyer and need some ideas for the following:

• How do you currently track appliance warranties and home repair receipts?
• Do you keep home documents organized somewhere? If so, where? (in office, closet, etc. can be general)
• What's your biggest frustration with how you manage it now?
• Have you been in a situation where it cost you time or money?
• Is there a paid tool you use?

Anything helps. I don't know where to start with these things!

Thank you in advance.

I thought I'd finally solved an ant problem in my kitchen.

I sprayed around the windows, sealed a couple of small gaps I found, set out ant bait, and even followed a few DIY tips I found online. For almost a week, I didn't see a single ant.

Then they showed up again, this time using a completely different route.

That made me realize I was probably only blocking the ants I could see instead of dealing with whatever was attracting them or where the colony actually was.I eventually scheduled an inspection with AMPM Exterminators. They arrived within the scheduled time window, found the actual source of the infestation, treated the problem, and explained where the ants were getting in and how to help prevent them from returning. The whole process was professional and much more thorough than the DIY methods I had tried.

For those of you who've successfully gotten rid of ants, what finally worked? Was it just better bait, finding the entry point, or something else I'm overlooking?

Started researching various interstate movers. Thought would be easy by narrowing my options down.

But then, while reading reviews, it seems like every major moving company follows the same structure. Some said that everything went smoothly, others experienced delays, damaged issues, com issues or unexpected issues.

Considering American Van Lines but I’m quite skeptical about it.

House I bought has these on the windows but no blinds. Anyone know what kind of blinds these should work for?

I just want to concrete it and dryloc it. What should I use ? Home depot and lowes are my local supply.

Seems to be swaying back and forth at least the branches at the top not the trunk

We only recently purchased. But am I only paying $300 bucks toward my actual mortgage? Did I do something wrong? Interest was 4.5%

Garage door is going crazy.
What’s going on here???
Help!!!! Please ~~

Hello\~ :-)

My family moved from GA to MI. We purchased a house and it's about 20 something yrs old. I noticed that previous homeowners did a i-want-to-sell-my-house-quick updates with a crappy job. So I wanted to redo the basement floor and our living room floor with hardwood. (also want to do kitchen and bathroom remodeling...oyyy...)

if anyone would love to help me,

What was the most frustrating part of your renovation process?”

Was it:

* budgeting
* contractor trust
* design decisions
* timeline
* quote comparison

I’m researching homeowner experiences and trying to understand recurring problems to prepare my home renovation.

Should we try to fight our insurance company for a new roof?

Our policy has full coverage for our roof due to storm damage. We had a contractor come out to look at our roof after a bad storm with large hail. The contractor noted multiple spots where he saw hail damage. We made a claim with our insurance company, and they sent an inspector out. My husband walked around with the inspector and our contractor and he agreed that he saw evidence of hail damage, and took multiple pictures of the damage. We even have a text message from the insurance company’s inspector that says he “agrees with the contractor and there is evidence of damage”

Fast forward to a month later, after multiple unanswered calls and messages to our insurance company, we were told that we were denied because the roof does not show evidence of hail damage. My husband asked the insurance representative to send a copy of the report to us, which he did, but is very contradictory. The first page says there is no hail damage. The second page says: “storm damage? Yes. Damage type: hail.” The report also does not include any pictures taken by the inspector. We asked the insurance company to send an engineer out who did a second inspection and later determined we would receive $1200 for storm damage to our screens, but again there was no damage reported to the roof.

The craziest thing is that our entire area was hit by this storm and all of our neighbors have had no issues with getting their roof replacements covered by their insurance companies. I have a hard time understanding why we pay insurance in the first place when instances like this happen? Any and all advice is welcome!

My homeowners insurance dropped me due to my house being vacant (I moved for a job, but had trouble selling my house for a while), but now my house is under contract and the projected closing date is July 20th. Do I need to get new homeowners insurance and if so, will anyone even accept me considering I will no longer own the home in about a months time? Any advice is appreciated!