Extension Publications relating to home ownership

Home Works: an educational newsletter series for new homeowners

• Fall : Understanding property tax bills,cleaning gutters, heating system maintenance, and indoor air quality when the house is closed up.
• Winter: Reading an escrow statement, income taxes and homeowners, ice dams, frozen pipes, carbon monoxide concerns, and what if you can't pay your bills?
• Spring: Hiring a contractor, avoiding home repair fraud, home equity loans and predatory lenders, exterior maintenance, and should you do a repair yourself?
• Summer: Homeowner emergency fund, warm weather humidity problems, damp basements, staying cool and affording it, caring for your lawn and new landscape plants.