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Here’s How Much Time Bobby Berk Has To Renovate Homes On Queer Eye
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Here’s How Much Time Bobby Berk Has To Renovate Homes On Queer Eye

Before Bobby Berk and his team renovate the house that week, they look for a massive warehouse to store various furniture and décor they can use throughout the season. When the Fab Five meet with the homeowners, Berk assesses the house and what he and his team need to get done. He has a four-day timeframe — the team meets the homeowners on Tuesday, and Berk needs to finish renovating by Friday, per Netflix’s Tudum.

Luckily, his team got a head start on the project. While Berk is working on the renovation for the week, several of his teammates will

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What expenses can you deduct when renovating a rental property?
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What expenses can you deduct when renovating a rental property?

Rental property owners can typically deduct property taxes, insurance, interest, condo fees, repairs, utilities and other related costs. A rental property can even run at a loss allowing the taxpayer to claim deductions against their other sources of income.

Rental properties: Current vs capital expenses

There is a distinction between repairs and renovations for a rental property, Shawn. Repairs are referred to as current expenses, meaning they are deductible in the year incurred. Renovations are capital expenses that cannot be deducted immediately but can reduce your capital gain upon sale.

According to the Canada Revenue Agency:

A current expense is

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#DreamTeam linky – 28th May 2023
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#DreamTeam linky – 28th May 2023

May 28, 2023

Hi everyone, we are back with another round of the #DreamTeam linky! A fab place to share your writing, read what others have been up to, and share a bit of blog love! Come join us…

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I’m really excited to show you our picture book WILD translated into Spanish! It feels very surreal to know that children and grown ups over in Spain will be able to see this on the bookshelves. It’s a bit of a pinch me moment 🙂 *someone pass the cake!

Annette Demetriou

Thank you to everyone who is joining in with

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The Girl Who LOVES Bugs by Lily Murray – picture book review
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The Girl Who LOVES Bugs by Lily Murray – picture book review

May 3, 2023

Hands up who has a little one that LOVES bugs? Me too! From the moment she clapped her eyes on them, that was it. Ladybirds in her hair, snails who somehow managed to come to tea, and little pet woodlice wriggling around in their new ‘leaf houses’.

It’s no surprise that we’ve completely fallen in love with the new picture book, The Girl Who LOVES bugs by Lily Murray. It’s newly published just in time for bug season by Macmillan Children’s Books. Here’s what we thought.

The Girl Who LOVES Bugs by Lily Murray - picture book review

The Girl Who LOVES Bugs by Lily Murray

Synopsis

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Helical piles can speed up a home renovation
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Helical piles can speed up a home renovation

Published April 25, 2023 • 3 minute read

Mike Holmes with Jake Ward from TechnoMetal Post installing helical piles to support a new deck being built on Holmes Family Rescue, Season 1, as it is a great alternative to sonotube or concrete footings.
Mike Holmes with Jake Ward from TechnoMetal Post installing helical piles to support a new deck being built on Holmes Family Rescue, Season 1, as it is a great alternative to sonotube or concrete footings. Photo by The Holmes Group photograph

With warmer weather on the horizon, residential construction and renovation projects will increase, and many projects will need structural support.

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The Nine Circles of Home Renovation Hell
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The Nine Circles of Home Renovation Hell

First Circle: Limbo

Midway on our journey in life, we find ourselves in a dark kitchen, surrounded by oak cabinets and laminate flooring, our savings account completely lost. Welcome to reno limbo, a place where nothing happens, as the good crews are booked for several centuries. In this circle, the pagans shout “DIY! DIY!” toiling back and forth to Home Depot, lost in the labyrinth, unable to find help or penny tile. They refused to accept the bidding of Jesus, a master carpenter from Piscataway. Above the gates, a sign reads, ABANDON YOUR HOMEYE WHO can

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Woman dies in blaze that destroys home in Belmar
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Woman dies in blaze that destroys home in Belmar

BELMAR−A fire that engulfed and then destroyed a three-story home on Surf Avenue claimed the life of the elderly woman who lived there, a family member said.

Kevin Colie, 58, told the Asbury Park Press that his mother, Frances Colie, 93, was pronounced dead at a local hospital after the 4 pm blaze.

Firefighters work the scene of a fatal fire at Surf Ave. in Belmar, NJ Wednesday, March 15, 2023.

Firefighters work the scene of a fatal fire at Surf Ave. in Belmar, NJ Wednesday, March 15, 2023.

Colie said his family owned the house for about 50 years, since Colie was in the third grade.

He said they had recently done renovations at the house.

Borough

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Planning our loft conversion
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Planning our loft conversion

January 8, 2023

So, after 12 years of thinking about it, we are finally getting a loft conversion done. Yay! It might have taken covid and working from home to give us that final push (or maybe shove). But I am so glad we are taking the plunge.

Planning a loft conversion

Why a loft conversion?

To put it bluntly, it was far more cost effective for us to build up to create more space, than to move house. We live in an old, average, 3 bedroom Victorian house in London. You know, one of those long but fairly thin houses with a kitchen

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