Every home has a heartbeat, personality, and a spirit. You walk into a home and it has an identifiable energy. Whether the nuanced atmosphere of the home presents as a subtle influence or it is glaringly obvious the ability to impact you is beyond question. How many times have you heard home purchasers declare they knew this was their dream home the instant they walked thru the front door? My wife and I had the opposite reaction when we looked at a home and the second we entered the foyer we knew something was off and without seeing more collectively opted out. Later it was disclosed there had been a recent, and tragic death, in the home. On the other hand the first house we purchased should have been torn down and although there was no apparent or rational reason why somehow it felt like home, and ultimately it became so. I don’t know how it is possible for an inanimate object to put off such vibes, but it does.

The lifeblood of a home can generate emotions from “Warm Fuzzies” to debilitating spikes in your anxiety. You may live in a new development where the only noticeable difference between homes is the model of car in the driveway or your home may be a unique, one of a kind, with a centuries old ownership legacy. Whether your home is a newborn or one manifesting its age it is still your baby and needs to be treated as such. It does not matter if it is a runway showpiece or the runt of the litter home ownership can be compared to having and raising a child. Like a child a home is unique and becomes a product of its upbringing and the effort, attention, applied to it. Well-balanced attention, care, and love will yield positive results you will be proud of. Take care of it and it will take care of you. The opposite is also true. Poor attention to details, neglect of deficiencies, or over indulgence in some areas to the detriment of others in the end can, and more than likely will, cause you issues and reflect poorly on you.

Unlike the negative results of lackluster child rearing, a homes’ sketchy past and poor caretaking can be overcome at any point in time. Homes, unlike children, perpetually remain ensconced in those malleable years continually capable of growth and development. Over a home projected life many different occupants will reside and each will be presented with a new starting point for changes of direction and renewed life. You, as homeowner, provide the essential elements for a house to transition to a home and the birth/growth of its soul. No matter if the house is your dream home or a shack in the woods there should be no illusion you are more than the current caretaker for those that come and reside after. How you deal with your responsibility is the structural foundation for your homes “Vibe”. You feed, cloth, education, love your children. Why should you not do the same for your home? For both children, and a home, if you put in the effort it will be rewarded. When everyone in your neighborhood takes the same approach to home ownership those special, highly desirable enclaves arise.

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