Five Home Fixes Cheaper than $500

Maybe you have $500 in your home maintenance budget for the rest of the year. Maybe you have a home maintenance project you've been trying to take care of for months and need to plan a budget around the upcoming cost. Here are five common home fixes that cost, on average, $500 or less. How do we know what these projects cost? From homeowners across the country, who just like you, have completed these home fixes with one of our trusted home improvement contractors.

1. Install a Central Humidifier-($494)

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10 tips to follow when selling your home

By Jessica Heffner

Getting your home ready for this year’s spring market will be like beating Tiger Woods in the Masters — it’s not going to be easy.

With foreclosures still flooding the local real estate market — making up as much as 39 percent of all home sales in the Greater Cincinnati area, according to Zillow.com — there’s one easy way homeowners can set themselves apart from their cheaper counterparts.

Cleanliness.

“The easiest thing to overlook if you can’t make improvements is cleanliness. Everything has to be clean. That is not an expensive way to set yourself apart,” said John Prazynsk.

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