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Tips for homeowners, property managers, and real estate investors. Plus local insights into the greater Birmingham area by Continental Realty.
We manage over 600 properties for our owners/investors in and around Birmingham. As you can imagine, we’ve seen it all! From plumbing leaks to major storm damage, we’ve been there to help local property owners all over Jefferson and Shelby counties. We’re bringing you some of that expert know-how with our blog articles on home maintenance and improvement below. You’ll also find local insights into upcoming events and attractions all over the Magic City.
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Simple Upgrades That Add Value To Your Home
Success in the home selling or the home rental process often hinges on numerous different factors. Sometimes, completing a handful of internal and external upgrades could make all the difference when it's time to attract a potential buyer or tenant. Continental Realty...
Top Reasons why your Alabama Rental Property is Still Vacant (and what to do about it)
You might be here because you've been marketing your rental property for weeks already and have not gotten any real interest. You believe you've done everything you could to make your property enticing, so what might be the problem? Well, you've come to the right...
7 Simple Ideas To Spruce Up Your Home During Lockdown
During this period that we are all advised to stay at home, we now have more time on our hands to see the entirety of our house, inspect every nook and cranny, and most importantly, we have a couple of weeks for some simple repairs and little side projects to do...
Check out home and garden ideas at the Birmingham Home Show next February
There’s a whole lot you can do with your home, ranging from improvement, décor, cooking and other ideas. In fact, you could look at your own home as a sort of canvas where you can shape your space as you see fit. But what if you need some more ideas? There’s an almost...
Watch dogs do ballet in “The Mutt-Cracker” on November 29
Have you ever wanted to see a dog do a ballet in a tutu? Well, maybe they don’t do ballet the way that a human would but they can certainly do the dog version of it, so if that has your attention then Birmingham Ballet’s “The Mutt-Cracker” may be of interest as it’s...
Top 3 Mold Mistakes – Indoor Air Quality and Your Home
Did you know? One square inch can contain more than 65 million mold spores. Mold develops where there is excess water and moisture like humidity. Unfortunately, people often make the problem worse because they don’t know what to do next. Mistake #1 Using a fan...
5 Ways Technology is Helping Property Management
There is no doubt that business in the 21st century is driven and supported by technology. After all, the tools we have at our disposal now – think smartphones, tablets and powerful computer systems – were not available just 20 years ago. When it comes to the world of...
A Weekend Guide to Birmingham, Alabama
Once an industrial powerhouse at the center of the iron industry in the USA, Birmingham, Alabama, is now a thriving and charming city. There is plenty to see and do in what is truly a fascinating place. Perhaps not the first city you would think about for a weekend...
Why is the Rating of an AC Unit Specified in Tons?
If you have at least a bit of an idea on how AC ratings work, you might already know that a 4-ton capacity air conditioner doesn't actually weigh 4 tons, or even 8,000 pounds because an AC’s number of tons doesn’t refer to its weight at all. This number, in actuality,...
The 7 Deadly Sins of Rental Property Management
Handling a rental property requires a serious commitment, so you need to be very careful with your decisions and overall management. To help you be on the right track, we’re giving you the top 7 deadly sins rental property owners should avoid. These should help you...