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Reference: Home Project Planning Guides

• The project planning guides will help you make sense of your project, understand key decision points and avoid schedule killers. Use the information in these guides to keep your team and budget on track and under control.

Reference: Hiring Guides

• Use the free service professional and subcontractor hiring guides to understand hiring options and effectively manage the hiring process.

Reports and Documents

• Homewyse Homeownership Cost Report This report summarizes annualized home maintenance and repair expenses for typical residential dwellings in key United States geographic areas. It evaluates annualized capital cost of systems - such as plumbing, roofing, HVAC, siding - along with larger scale maintenance projects - such as painting, fencing and landscaping - as well as routine periodic maintenance costs. Theses combined costs are commonly overlooked, but clearly illustrate why homeowners experience substantially larger home ownership expenses than originally expected.

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