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July 26, 2012

REAL ESTATE GUIDE

Upper Arlington

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featured home utstanding and beautifully remodeled sprawling ranch in one of the most desirable neighborhoods near OSU and Riverside Hospital. Absolute perfection, most everything has been redone with great care in this 3 bedroom and 3 bath home on 1.4 acres.

Gorgeous kitchen with Cherry hardwoods, baths with heated marble floors, two tankless water heaters, Whirlpool spa, newer windows all with Plantation shutters, 4-car garage, additional outbuilding. Country Estate in the City.

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about the agent inda Moulakis of Coldwell Banker King Thompson Realtors embraced a hands-on experience with Buyers and Sellers for over years. She feels her success has come from her attention to detail and thorough understanding of statistics of real estate trends. Her knowledge of the real estate market and her attention to detail have given her the ability to educate her clients so that every buyer and seller feels confident that they have gotten the best value in their real estat transaction.

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Maximize home renovations to get most for your money R

OI is rapidly becoming an important acronym in home renovations, with sellers realizing the benefits that return on investment can have to the value of their home.

Investing wisely in your home is crucial if you want to be relevant as a seller in today's real estate market.

There are savvy ways to renovate that can exponentially increase the appeal of your home to poten-

tial buyers.

Here are a few first steps to take in planning for smart renovations: ■ Talk to your real estate agent: Your first step includes scheduling a sit-down with your agent to discuss all of the potential renovations you are considering.

Your Realtor is trained and possesses the experience to educate you on your options and advise you on which upgrades would be most benefi-

Jerry White Real Estate Matters cial to your particular home.

■ Accessorize wisely: Some of the smaller, yet more visible details – such as fixtures, fittings, new vanities and tiled floors – can often pro-

vide you with significant cost savings if you do some advance research.

Fortunately, there are a large variety of price points available from designer pieces to accessories that are

less costly, but just as stylish.

■ Plan in advance – Half-finished renovations? Not attractive: It’s easy to get swept away by the renovation process and exceed your budget, which can bring the process to a screeching halt.

To avoid this trap, map out every detail of your plan and budget in advance.

■ Give ’em what they want: Kitchens and bathrooms are typically the most

costly rooms to renovate.

However, they are also the rooms that tend to rank high on the most "lived-in" parts of the house scale, so an updated kitchen or bathroom is particularly attractive and a "must have" for many potential buyers.

Jerry White is executive vice president of operations for Coldwell Banker King Thompson and past REALTOR of the Year for the Columbus Board of Realtors.

First rule of using pressure washer: Respect its power Q

uestion: I want to rent a pressure washer to clean any number of things around my home. I intend to clean my composite deck, my patio and my driveway, and to wash down my house, which has a combination of wood and vinyl siding. I’ve never used one before.

Are they hard to use?

Can you share some tips so I don’t hurt myself, my husband, my pets and my house?

–Peggy M., San

Jose, Calif. nswer: I’ve used pressure washers for years, and they are magnificent tools.

When used to clean things that can withstand the pressure and power from the tip of the wand, they’re enormous time savers.

What you need to know about them may be summed up in the famous line from the movie Spider-Man: “With great power comes great responsibility.”

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Ask the Builder Tim Carter I actually don’t think many people realize the enormous force that’s generated at the tip of the wand where the water spray exits.

Depending on the power of the machine you rent and the tip

you use, the water stream can etch and erode concrete. That should help you understand what it can do to human or animal tissue, composite decking, wood, vinyl or any other material that’s

softer than concrete.

In other words, you must respect the machine and what it is capable of doing to you, your pets or your possessions. I would spend the first 15 minutes testing out what the machine does on things you’re going to throw away.

It’s vital that you keep pets indoors so they don’t think the spray wand is a play toy. My dog loves to play in water and thinks that the pres-

sure washer is a great thing to be around. Not only is the sound from the gas engine hard on her hearing; the spray from the want could blind her or cut into her skin in less than a second. The same holds true for you and your husband. Never point the wand at an animal, human or plant.

You need to wear safety glasses or even goggles for full eye protection. The blast of Please see RULE, pg. 3

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Beautifully and updated home on a spectacular lot. Dreamy w/deck, waterfall feature, sunroom, arbor, wisteria trees.

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This is a 10! Top quality renovation including kitchen, baths, lower level, moldings and windows.

Gorgeous inside and out! Beautiful yard with pretty plantings, patio and garden shed. 2 car attached garage.

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Gorgeous, updated home on .652 of an acre. Beautiful hardwood Floors, 4 Bedrooms, 2 Full baths, lush landscaping, combination Mud/ Laundry Room. Living Dining and Family Room. Updated windows and so much natural light.

Fantastic Willow Brook Condo convenient to OSU, Riverside, Downtown, beautiful condition. 1st Floor Master, laundry, 2½ baths, walk-in closets, 2 car attached garage. $160,500

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water aimed at a driveway or patio edge can shoot up sand, rocks or dirt directly into your face. Paint chips from siding can fly into your face. This happens without warning. If you rent a gas-powered machine, wear earmuffs or great earplugs.

Be sure you understand how the machine works. Many pressure washers depend on the incoming water from the garden hose to cool the pump that creates all the pressure. If you

have the pressure washer on, but no water is flowing through the wand, you can damage the pump.

Read the owners manual or any quick-start guide the tool rental business provides.

New pressure washers typically come with an assortment of tips for the wand. These can range from 0 degrees up to 40 degrees.

The lower the number, the more concentrated and dangerous is the spray of water. I would start cleaning the house siding with a 40-

degree tip to see if it achieves what you want. You’ll probably have to use a 25-degree tip to get good results.

Never aim the spray wand up as you clean siding or aim it at cracks where siding butts up against windows, doors or any trim boards. You can drive water deep into these cracks and cause leaks or damage to your home. Never aim it at vinyl siding overlap seams such that the water stream gets behind the siding.

Remember, siding is installed based on the fact that Mother Nature’s rain aims down, not up. In rare instances, rain may be horizontal, but almost never does rain blow hard in an upward fashion. It can happen because of the shape of roofs and dormers during violent windstorms or hurricanes, but it’s not normal.

The last time I cleaned my own composite deck with a pressure washer, I damaged it. I was also in a rush. For about

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one second I got the tip too close and it sliced into the deck board. It’s impossible to repair that damage. It’s a good thing it’s in an out-ofthe-way place that I can hide with a few potted plants.

More warnings

Realize that pressure washers can readily peel paint from just about any exterior surface. If you want to use it for this purpose, hold the spray wand so the stream of water attacks the paint at a very low angle. The

spray wand would be nearly parallel with the painted surface.

Never allow children to play with a pressure washer. These machines should be in the same category as handguns or rifles.

They are that dangerous when it comes to children.

To watch a video showing you the components of a pressure washer and how to use it, type “pressure washer video” into the search engine at AsktheBuilder.com.

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This is the original model condo end unit with the best location in the complex.

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