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    Get A Carpet Cleaning By Doing Less

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    Carpet cleaning is easier than you think. All it takes is the right vacuum, cleaning products, and a little know-how. Still, it’s unavoidable; your carpet is going to become dirty, no matter how hard you try to keep it clean. Your kids and pets, along with those who forget to take off their shoes, track dirt into your home.

    While this may initially be overlooked, when enough grime gets into your carpet it can become hard to hide. Properly cleaned and maintained carpet will last twice as long. Learn the effective tips care cleaning tips for keeping your carpet looking new and fresh for years. Here are some easiest carpet cleaning tips to be rid of those common household stains, fast:

    General, Light Carpet Stains – Mix half a cup of white vinegar with 2 tablespoons of salt. Rub some of the solutions onto the stain with a clean, white cloth and let it dry. Afterward, vacuum the remaining salt particles. For larger, darker carpet stains, add in 2 tablespoons of borax to the above mixture.

    Ground-in Dirt and Tough Stains – Mix a tablespoon of vinegar with 1 tablespoon of cornstarch. Apply it to the dirt/stain with a dry, clean white cloth. Let the solution sit on the stain for roughly 48 hours, then vacuum. Club soda also works too!

    Paint – Make sure you remove as much paint as you can with a sponge as soon as you notice the spill. Then, mix 1 ½ teaspoon of vinegar with 1 ½ teaspoon of laundry detergent and 2 cups of water and apply the solution to the remaining stain. Rinse with cold water.

    Fruit and fruit juice stains – Create a solution with 1 tablespoon of laundry detergent with 1 ½ tablespoon white vinegar and 2 cups of water. Apply the solution to the stain and blot with a clean, white cloth. You can also use shaving cream to remove juice stains!

    Coffee and tea stains – Mix equal parts water and white vinegar and blot the stain with a clean white cloth. Club soda on these stains works just as easily, too.

    Grease/oil stains – Apply the shaving cream directly to the stain, let it dry, and then remove the shaving cream by rubbing with a damp soft cloth. You can also use cornstarch alone as a way to soak up fresh grease stains.

    Ink stains – Mix a small amount of milk with cornstarch to make a paste. Apply the mixture to the ink stain. Let it dry over the stain for a few hours, then brush off the residue and vacuum.

    Pet stains – Wipe up what you’re able to, then pour baking soda over the stain. Pat the area with a paper towel. Let the baking soda dry over the stain and then vacuum.

    By following the above tips, you can help reduce the severity of a stain, or even completely eliminate it! Even though many carpet cleaning tips can come in handy for your average stains, some messes cannot be cleaned on your own, in addition to these tips, be sure to call the carpet cleaning Rochester NY experts to perform a routine professional carpet cleaning to help reduce and eliminate carpet stains, both new and old

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    Solid Advice For Making Smart Real Estate Purchases International

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    There are so many challenging aspects about buying a home: searching, financing, and buying a home, and more! It can really drive you crazy! Knowing all of these aspects is critical.
    Real estate agents would do well to reach out to former clients during the holiday season or sell a purchase date. Hearing your voice again from you will trigger positive memories of the real estate transaction that occurred. At the end of your message, remind them that you work on a referral basis and would consider it a compliment if they would recommend you to their friends.
    If you have or plan to have a big family, you should look at homes that will have enough room for your family. You will be sure that your house is safe if the previous tenants had children.
    If you are planning to move to another area, do some research on the internet about different communities and neighborhoods. You can discover a good deal of information about even the smallest town. Consider the population, population and unemployment rate of your desired location before purchasing a house there so you ensure that you will love where you live.
    Homes that need multiple improvements or updates are often sold for cheaper than other homes. This can be a money-saver in purchasing the home, and use it to improve the house in your own time. A little fix up work can transform that diamond in the rough into the house of your dreams.
    If you submit an offer for the home you love and the seller does not accept it, do not completely give up on the fact that they won’t find a method of making the purchase price affordable for you. They might offer to cover closing costs or make some repairs prior to you moving in.
    Even if you currently do not have children, if you are planning on living in the home for an extended period of time and the possibility of starting a family during those years cannot be ruled out, it is a good idea to find out if the area schools are of high quality.
    A lot of Realtors have ready made checklists of purchasing a home. The checklist can help you organize everything is taken care of when it needs to be.
    Buyers will often calculate the final closing costs by combining the amount for the down payment, any points that they pay to the lender, and obviously the down payment. In many cases, closing costs have extra items like improvement bonds, school taxes, and anything else that is specific to that area.
    It really is a good time to get invested in real estate.Property values at this time are low due to a recent fall in the housing market. The housing market will rebound, and your investment will be very profitable.
    Consider these tips a starting point for you to understand how to buy a new home. Be sure to apply these insights to your home hunt so that you can navigate your trail without falling into the pits that a lot of other new home owners do.

     

     

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    A Modest Proposal for Curing the Housing Crisis

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    With the number and size of government bailouts increasing and with no end in sight, one has to wonder how will it end? Will the government ever get a handle on the deepening financial crisis?
    While our political leaders seem to be running around plugging the leaking financial dike one hole at a time, many of us in real estate have been wondering why they don’t simply attack the problem at the source? After all, it’s pretty clear that the current financial difficulty is occurring as a direct result of the collapse of the housing market. Stabilize housing and the financial markets backing it should quickly come around.
    Consider, rampant foreclosures are forcing prices ever lower in market after market across the country. This in turn causes financial institutions (both in the secondary market such as Fannie and Freddie and the derivative market such as AIG) who ultimately hold the mortgage paper on most of those foreclosed houses to see their asset’s lose value – hence, the drawdown of their capital and, ultimately, their failure and the government bailouts.
    However, while spending billions to bail out financial institutions who hold watered down mortgage paper may temporarily shore up financial markets, it does nothing to cure the problem, which is falling housing prices caused by ever increasing foreclosures. It’s a bandaid, not a cure.
    The right answer is to stop the foreclosures. If the foreclosures stop coming, then the housing market will have a chance to stabilize. Prices will level off. Home buyers confidence will return. And given the enormous hidden demand for housing, prices should even begin rising.
    That will have the beneficial effect of making all the mortgage paper that financial institutions hold more valuable and will start turning the tide on the financial crisis.
    So, how do we stop the foreclosures? That’s the point of this modest proposal:
    Instead of spending hundreds of billions of dollars to shore up failing financial institutions, why not spend tens of billions of dollars to salvage failing borrowers?
    The cause of the problem is mainly that ARMs (adjustable rate mortgages) are resetting to higher interest rates and higher monthly payments that borrowers (who were ill-advised to borrow the money in the first place) cannot afford. That results in the cascade of foreclosures that’s sinking our financial system.
    So instead of resetting the ARMs at higher rates and monthly payments, why not simply and arbitrarily rewrite all of those loans to keep those low teaser rates in place for an additional 5 years? For example, a borrower’s mortgage is resetting from 3.5 percent to 6.5 percent? He can’t make the payments.After 3 months of defaulted payments, let the government pay the difference for the lender to step in and automatically (without further threat of foreclosure or without concern if the borrower is an occupant or an investor) freeze the initial low rate (and the correspondingly low payment) at 3.5 percent for 5 years.
    It’s not as outrageous as it sounds. Yes, it would cost the government billions to do this. But not as many billions as the government is already spending to bail out the tail-end of the system – financial institutions who hold the mortgage paper on foreclosed properties.
    And it would have the enormous benefit of keeping people in their homes, stopping foreclosures, and stabilizing the market. But, many will certainly complain, it’s not fair! What about those millions of people who didn’t get in over their heads and take out risky loans? Their tax dollars would be going to save the financial necks of those borrowers who don’t deserve it. True, it isn’t fair. But, when the ship is going down do you stand around arguing about whose fault it is? Or do you start bailing water? We need a turn around. And soon.
    This modest proposal would serve the same purpose as the CCC and WPA served during the Great Depression. It would restore confidence and stop the bleeding. And it could actually save the government money. Who knows it might actually save the government!

     

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    Why Hepwrights?

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    At Hepwrights you will find wonderful hand picked vintage clothes, accessories, homewares, textiles and collectibles. Our city centre boutique in Southampton is colourful, airy and inviting and we are surrounded by delightful cafes and restaurants so you can make your shopping trip into a relaxing treat.

     

    New stock hits the floor every day so make sure you pop back in often to make sure you catch those one off vintage treasures before someone else snaps them up.

     

    If you have a particular item in your sights, make sure you register with Hepwrights. We can keep details of your requirements on file and go vintage hunting on your behalf.

    HEP for:

    Audrey HEP-burn
    Katherine HEP-burn
    and all the HEP-cats

    HEPcat (plural hepcats)

    1. (informal, music) A jazz performer, especially one from the 1940s and 1950s.
    2. (informal) A person associated with the jazz subculture of the 1940s and 1950s; a hipster.

    [edit] See also

    • beatnik
    • bebopper
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    Queens of Vintage is Back

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    This great website went on hiatus for a while not sure why but I am pleased to see it back. I think there is space for a Big Beast alongside the plethora of blogs that make the vintage/fashion sector so vibrant.

    This is a piece they wrote about Hep when we were still Spybaby back in the day! Maybe its time they updated it?

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