Here’s today’s Home Improvement News Fix. Top stories include creative home buying, how wood changes blood pressure, and DIY laundry rooms.
In Business News
Home buyers are partnering to buy new homes. Some are sharing the appreciation with an investor company like Landed.
Others are renting to own with companies like Home Partners of America, and some buyers are using shared equity to pay below-market rates through an agreement with a financial institution like Unison that acts as both the lender for and an investor in a property.
Did you Know?
A wood-covered room can decrease blood pressure. According to a study in the Journal of Wood Sciences there’s a wood sweet spot for the decrease in diastolic blood pressure. It’s when 45% of a room is covered in wood. When rooms are 90% wood they can cause a rapid decrease in brain activity and an increase in pulse rate.
So keep that in mind when you are about to book that next AirBnB log cabin vaca.
DIY Home Search News
The Top DIY Search in February was DIY Laundry Room Makeover. Talk about one way to get ready for spring cleaning.
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