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Stay at the Beach Rentals Receives 2013 Best of Panama City Award

Tuesday, January 14th, 2014

Panama City Beach, FL (PRWEB) January 02, 2014

Stay at the Beach Rentals has been selected for the 2013 Best of Panama City Award in the Vacation Rentals category by the Panama City Award Program.

Each year, the Panama City Award Program identifies companies it believes have achieved exceptional marketing success in their local community and business category. These are local companies that enhance the positive image of small business through service to their customers and the community. These exceptional companies help make the Panama City area a great place to live, work and play.

Various sources of information were gathered and analyzed to choose the winners in each category. The 2013 Panama City Award Program focuses on quality, not quantity. Winners are determined based on the information gathered both internally by the Panama City Award Program and data provided by third parties.

The Panama City Award Program is an annual awards program honoring the achievements and accomplishments of local businesses throughout the Panama City area. Recognition is given to those companies that have shown the ability to use their best practices and implemented programs to generate competitive advantages and long-term value. The Panama City Award Program was established to recognize the best of local businesses in the community. The organization works exclusively with local business owners, trade groups, professional associations and other business advertising and marketing groups. Its mission is to recognize the small business community’s contributions to the U.S. economy.

For more information about Stay at the Beach Rentals, please visit their website at http://www.stayatthebeachrentals.com/, or call 888-588-8257.

About the Company:

With over 27 miles of sugar-white sand beaches and unlimited opportunities for outdoor recreation and water sports, a Panama City Beach vacation will not be forgotten. After working in real estate for many years, owner Erica Heller has begun her own business venture with Stay at the Beach Rentals. Heller is extremely excited about this opportunity, working diligently to please both the renters and the owners with their condo rental experience along with a full-time staff to assist. Stay at the Beach Rentals offers waterfront condos and beachfront rooms. To check out their listings, please visit their website.







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Sell or Stay Put? Tips on Improving a Home’s Efficiency from the Experts at Preen.com

Tuesday, May 7th, 2013


Lebaon, PA (PRWEB) May 02, 2013

With the real estate market rebounding in much of the country, many homeowners are considering whether to sell or stay put in their homes. Either way, it’s smart to start by improving a home’s efficiency.

The features that make a home fun and easy to live in are, in fact, the same qualities that can make a house attractive to prospective buyers. Following are smart, cost-effective ways to improve the efficiency of daily life from the experts at preen.com.


Sufficient, Efficient Storage – Clutter complicates life and makes a home look and feel cramped. To ease clutter, make a place for everything. Line basement or garage walls with shelves to make maximum use of storage spaces. They neednt be expensive, and can be bought, built DIY, from scratch or a kit, or customized by a local handyman. Space shelves to accommodate different sized storage containers to make it easy to group belongings by use or season.

Tip: Build a Cedar Closet. Convert an existing closet and line it with cedar panels. Switching out seasonal clothes is now a breeze and damage from insects and mice is no more.

Give Pets a Place of Their Own – Pets are so important to many households but, too often, their gear gets in the way. Give pets practical places of their own. Position feeding zones where pet water and food bowls are convenient but not in the middle of family traffic patterns. Add an interior cat door to provide access to the basement or utility room, so cat boxes are accessible but out of the way. Designate a basket for pup and kitty toys and use it.

Low Maintenance Landscapes – In the yard, simplicity equals lower maintenance. Choose pleasing plantings that are easier to care for. Instead of annuals which must be replaced each season, focus on long-term perennial beds and blooming shrubs. Put edging around planting beds to keep grass away.

Tip: Prevent, Dont Pull Weeds: Dont waste time pulling weeds all summer, stop them before they grow. Cover bare garden and landscape beds with mulch to ward off weeds, retain soil moisture and add a tidy look. For double-duty weed protection try Preen Mulch Plus, a natural, shredded-wood mulch with added pre-emergent weed preventers already mixed in to stop weeds for up to six months.

Focus on Ease-of-Living – Evaluate how well the house is set up for daily living. Where do people enter? Where do they hang out? Which closets are used for what? In streamlining functionality, consider organizing toiletries by type or person; do a sweep of the house to eliminate or give away no longer used household goods such as retired bedding, cooking pieces, sports gear, totes or luggage, and so on. Avoid brick-a-brac. Too much stuff detracts from favorite pieces and makes cleaning everything more difficult.

Tip: Choose Thoughtful Over Trendy. Entertainment rooms, outdoor kitchens and such are nice, but these are not the kinds of things that make a house feel homey. The most livable homes gain character through efficiency. Its easy to love a house where ease-of-living is well thought out.







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A Homes Location Sways Homeowner Choices To Stay And Renovate Or Move

Monday, March 11th, 2013


Minneapolis, Minnesota (PRWEB) March 06, 2013

An annual survey conducted by the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) helped researchers determine just how and why homeowner’s chose where they live. Results highlight that a home is more than its architectural components; a home’s neighborhood and surroundings help determine what quality of life style its occupants may enjoy.

Destiny Home’s owner Butch Sprenger says, “Whether seeking to make a purchase as a home remodel / investment project, a lifestyle upgrade or both, one of the first decisions home buyers must make is where to live. A home’s location will impact the future value of the home investment and much about its occupants everyday life. One of the first things you should ask yourself is if you really like the location of your current home. If you love where you live, then it may make good sense to renovate your home and skip on a move”.

It has long been said that location is the lead factor in a home’s price point and anticipated value increase. The survey shows what people consider to be a high value location when deciding where to live:


Just 8 percent of those surveyed want to live in a city center

23 percent of the survey respondents indicated they are not drawn to the idea of living in a city center.

36% would opt to live in the outer suburbs

30% would like to buy a home in the close-in suburbs

27% still want rural American homes in the countryside

The study was conducted by NAHBs Economics and Housing Policy Group in 2012, based on a survey of home buyers nationwide. Destiny Homes offers the following comments to help home buyers make well-thought out decisions as to their home’s location:

1) Home’s Proximity to Work – More than ever, home buyers are giving heed to what absorbs time and funds. Many are determining that hours that add up in commutes to work, activities, medical appointments, school, and the ability to spend quality time with family and friends is eating too big of a chuck. The time homeowners spend on a daily commute can have a significant impact on disposable income needed for routine home improvement projects.

2) Home’s Proximity to Friends and Family – The perfect home design may not feel very ideal if that means a lonely life, living too great a distance from friends and family to see them often enough. Staying close to key relationships may well mean more than having a beautiful home. On the other hand, friends and family might end up moving at some point; so it is good to arrive at balanced reasons for choosing a home’s location.

3) Home’s Proximity to Schools And Educational Development – For home buyers who are thinking of raising children, the school district is an important consideration. Living in a good public school district may save tens of thousands of dollars that might otherwise need to be spent on private schooling. Many homeowners consider it worth paying a premium to live in a neighborhood with top notch schools.

4) A Neighborhood’s Personality Matters – Survey findings show that 28 percent cited the looks and design of the community as the reason for choosing a specific neighborhood location. However, what a neighborhood looks like on paper or on-line and what living in it is like are two different things. For example, a neighborhood might feel comfortable during the day, but may seem disconcerting or unsafe at night.

5) Home’s Proximity to Leisure And Recreational Activities – A neighborhood offering ready access to walking and jogging trails, nearby parks, access to a beach or an outdoor swimming pool; can all be influencing reasons to select a particular home’s location. More people are engaged in recreation, leisure and sports than ever before as awareness of the healthful benefits of recreational choices become more widely accepted and documented. Living in a location where pursuits of resident’s recreational preferences are at hand, makes it easier to enjoy the life activities they want.

“It’s important to visit the location of a prospective home purchase several different days, at different times and talk to different residents to gain a full picture of the neighborhood’s character and the personalities of the people you will live next to. It can be hard to judge a neighborhood’s personality in the dead of winter or on a rainy day when everyone packs up and goes indoors, advises Sprenger.

Contact Destiny Homes for advice when choosing where to live in Minneapolis, Wayzata, Medina, Minnetonka, Eden Prairie, Edina or surrounding real estate communities. Once the choice of where to live is made, whether it means a move or not, home remodeling plans can begin. Call 952-923-5706.







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