Apps for Home Improvements

An App for That!

Now we have all heard that before.   Yet, it is so very often true.  What would we do without our

Smart Phones and Tablets??

If you read this blog regularly, you know that a few days ago, I passed an article regarding a Digital Detox in the New Year.   As I had noted, some readers may seriously need a Digital Detox as he or she never ever puts down his/her phone.  

Been eating watchin a family of four all on their phones all during dinner?   You would think they would at least ask some one in person to pass the ketchup but most likely they send a text!  

That family would need a Digital Detox it seems.

Yet, for "us regular folks", we rely on applications(APPs) to look up our stock portfolios, watch a game, look up a recipe while at the market or post a picture to PinInterest, Facebook or some other site.  

In seeing this article with the 10 best apps for Home Improvement, I know that many people need these applications.   In 2015, real estate will continue to improve.  Thus, sellers will need to take care of deferred maintenance in prepping to sell and home buyers will look to enhance homes puchased.  In addition, with job market improvement and the upswing in the economy, home owners will add the fence around the yard or a pool, replace windows or roof or complete other large ticket improvements.

Thus, these 10 best apps should serve you well in any of these functions that will touch probably a minimum of 20-30% of us.   With a few years of everyone holding off, there should be lots of activity in 2015 -2019.

Here is your link to the article and the apps:

  Top Ten

Tech Control in 2015: Digital Detox

Controlling Tech Abuse

with a 

Digitial Detox

Happy New Year!!!  

Christmas was wonderful as it always is as there is so much to celebrate at Christmas!!

With 2015, some feel the pressure to make resolutions to improve upon features of their lives that just aren't where they would like them to be.  And the great American Marketers are there to help! Just note all of the Weight Watchers new 24 hour support line, weight equipment on sale at every outlet possible and "free" gym memberships on air and in print.  

Yet, this provocative article from Home By Design Magazine suggests that unplugging from all our technology is a "resolution" to make in 2015.  The article doesn't specifically state this but the timing seems obvious.

As you read the article, you will have to decide if you need a "Digital Detox".   Perhaps I am naive.  I believe I have a "healthy relationship" with technology.  How could I be in Real Estate without a smart phone, laptop, and tablet?  Or by not checking in with friends and clients on Facebook or posting homes to YouTube?

Perhaps, fortunately, I have clients to prep for and appointments that keep me "off the grid" for enough each day.   Yet, I am sure most of us have to work or go to school so we possibly are off line for serious chunks of time.

Yet, if you are, as some are reported to be, on your smart phone or computer every minute after school or work or at breaks in your day, you seriously may "need to get a life" and do a DIGITAL DETOX.

Though technology is here to stay and will only be a bigger part of our life in the future, we must experience life to enjoy it.  

Thus, putting down the phone or computer, and engage in talking face to face with some one or get involved in a hobby or sharing your talents with a charitable organization will add to anything you can view on YouTube or Facebook.

So are you a candidate for Digital Detox??? 

A Digital Detox