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The Ultimate Home Maintenance Checklist for Every Season

Like a regular health check-up, a home maintenance schedule is important for every house’s upkeep. Continuing to check on your exterior, appliances, heating and cooling, plumbing, security, and electrical systems will help prevent breakdowns, save money, and keep your home looking its best.

Use this home maintenance checklist to help schedule seasonal updates, repairs, cleaning, and a handful of monthly tasks. Revisit the list monthly and at the beginning of each season to keep your home in prime working condition. If any recommended home repairs and maintenance go beyond your skill level or lead to more complicated projects, consider hiring

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Paramus NJ home repair program helps seniors, lower-income residents

A longstanding Paramus program that helps lower-income residents repair their homes is getting a renewed push from the borough.

“It’s a good opportunity for us to help,” Mayor Chris DiPiazza said, adding that applicants to the program are typically senior citizens on fixed incomes. “It’s a good program to help people stay in town and give them tools that they need to fix their homes if they are not capable themselves.”

The Community Rehabilitation Program is run by the Paramus Affordable Housing Corp. and is supported by developers’ fees. The fund is expected to increase in the coming years

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Home repair scam artists targeting senior citizens in Queens

Home repair scammers target seniors in Queens

Authorities are issuing a new warning for seniors in several Queens neighborhoods, after several people were targeted by home repair scammers who pose as contractors offering to do repairs, but instead of fixing the homes, make off with thousands of from unsuspecting owners.

NEW YORK – Authorities are issuing a new warning to seniors in several Queens neighborhoods, after people were targeted by home repair scammers who pose as contractors offering to do repairs.

However, instead of fixing the homes, the scammers make off with thousands of dollars from unsuspecting owners. 

Kathryn Saffran,

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Lummis Teams Up With Fetterman To Cut Red Tape For Federal Home Repair Money

There is still a little bipartisanship here and there on Capitol Hill, and U.S. Sen. Cynthia Lummis is part of it as a co-sponsor of legislation with U.S. Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pennsylvania, that would establish a five-year pilot program to make it easier for homeowners to get help with critical home repairs.

The Whole-Home Repairs Act would allow low-and moderate-income homeowners and small landlords to apply for federal grants and loans to make needed repairs to their properties.

As a ranking member of the Subcommittee on Housing, Transportation and Community Development, Lummis frequently deals with issues involving a nationwide housing

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APCHA opens up home repair grant program to Category 4 homeowners

Steven Miller, a homeowner at Burlingame Ranch Phase I with his wife and their two kids, took advantage of the APCHA Essential Repairs Pilot Grant Program to address plumbing issues in one of the bathrooms in their home.
Steven Miller/Courtesy photo

Affordable housing owners in a higher income bracket are eligible for reimbursement funds from APCHA to address unit-specific health and safety concerns.

Homeowners up to APCHA income Category 4 are eligible for reimbursement funds from the housing authority to address unit-specific health and safety concerns. The pilot program launched in October 2023 and expanded to Category 4 earners with

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