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May 16, 2024
As the chill of winter approaches, it’s essential to prepare your home to ensure comfort, safety, and efficiency during the colder months. Here are some essential tips to help you get your property winter-ready: Chimney and Wood Heater Maintenance: For landlords and homeowners with wood heaters or fireplaces, it's crucial to have the chimney inspected and cleaned regularly. A buildup can increase the risk of chimney fires. Tenants should notify their landlords if they notice any issues with the chimney or wood heater, such as poor ventilation or unusual odors, to ensure prompt maintenance. Servicing Heat Pumps: Heat pumps are essential for keeping your home warm and cosy during winter. Schedule a professional service to ensure your heat pump is working efficiently. Landlords should arrange for heat pump servicing before the onset of winter to prevent breakdowns and ensure tenant comfort. Cleaning Gutters: Clogged gutters can lead to water damage particularly during winter. Clear leaves, debris, and any blockages from gutters and downspouts to allow proper drainage. Homeowners and landlords should inspect gutters periodically and clean them as needed, especially after heavy rainfall or when leaves start to fall. Addressing Slippery Surfaces: Winter brings slippery conditions, making it essential to address any potential hazards around your property. Landlords and homeowners should ensure that footpaths, driveways, and entryways are clear of debris and treated to prevent slips and falls. Tenants should promptly report any icy or slippery areas around their rental property to their landlords for remediation. Insulating Pipes: Frozen pipes can burst, causing costly water damage. Insulate exposed pipes, especially those in unheated areas attics, and crawl spaces. Landlords should consider insulating pipes in rental properties to prevent potential damage for tenants during winter. By taking these proactive measures, landlords, homeowners, and tenants can ensure their properties are well-prepared for the winter season. Remember, regular maintenance and timely repairs not only enhance comfort but also contribute to the long-term health and value of your property. Stay warm and safe this winter!
May 1, 2024
You may have noticed we use the word Smartre in our agency. You may be one of our clients who alerted us to our ‘spelling mistake’. Don't worry, it hasn't been done accidently. Smartre means Smart Real Estate. At Peter Lees Real Estate, we take a different approach that ensures we have a client-centric focus in all that we do. Our mission is to use ethical and effective strategies in every single interaction we have with our clients and customers. Unethical practices come at the cost of somebody within the transaction, either the seller, buyer, landlord or tenant – often due to manipulation, dishonesty or misrepresentation. At Peter Lees we hold ourselves to the highest ethical standards possible. We refuse to conduct ourselves unethically. Ineffective strategies are quite simply, useless. The strategies employed by our team not only lead to the highest price possible within the required timeframe, but the best possible outcomes for any of our clients. We do this with The Smartre Sale - a methodology now available to all clients of Peter Lees Real Estate. Our articles, opinions, posts and more than anything else, our results, will show you how this style of selling property will work for you. If you see the word Smartre associated with other real estate agencies in Australia and New Zealand, you can be assured that they too are focussed on achieving high ethical standards and are striving to improve the way people work and transact with real estate. We're proud to be associated with The Smartre Group. We'll continue to provide more information on The Smartre Sale with examples of successful results in the Launceston area from our clients who are are reaping its benefits. For more information in the meantime, please reach out to any of our team.