The Savvy Woman's Guide to Owning a Home: How to Care For, Improve and Maintain Your Home, 2nd Edition

by Kitty Werner

The Savvy Woman's Guide to Owning a How to Care For, Improve and Maintain Your Home is becoming the manual for new homeowners, particularly for women. Research into the books currently available shows that there hasn't been a comprehensive book written as a basic homeowner's manual for the non-tool-savvy owner. Using the mantra, "Nothing is obvious to the uninformed," The Savvy Woman's Guide to Owning a Home explains how a house works, what the homeowner needs to do to keep on top of potential problems and how to save money doing so. It also covers moving, insurance, seasonal check-ups, yearly maintenance, saving for big ticket jobs, responsibilities of the homeowner, joining a community, finding schools, finding the right contractor for any job, dealing with pests and importantly, preparing for emergencies, whether weather-related or local. Her It's okay to feel apprehensive about this ownership thing. You can do it. It doesn't take a genius to own and maintain a house. If you (or your partner) aren't handy with a hammer and nail, or comfortable with a power drill, so what! Either learn to do it yourself, befriend someone who is comfortable with wielding the appropriate tool, or learn to find the right professional to do the work for you.

Genres: Nonfiction

240 pages, Paperback

First published April 30, 2001

Reviews

[Bunny · Rating 5 out of 5]

I would like to own a copy of this book.

It really is a clever little thing. It's small enough to fit in a drawer, and has such good information in it. A lot of it I can't use, either because of my location or just because my house is small. I don't have a chimney, certainly. And working for 911, I know most of the "Save yourself" information.

But in terms of repairs, emergency kits, what to look fors, this is pretty damn incredible.

I really enjoyed this. And I want to keep it.