Page 2 - Allisons Newsletter, Lakewood Village in Long Beach - Sept 2018 Issue

SIMPLE WAYS TO BETTER ORGANIZE
ORGANIZING
YOUR HOME IN THE FALL

or Lakewood and Long Beach homeowners,
fall is the perfect time for organizing your
F house. Not only are the kids back to
school, but it’s also getting darker earlier, so you
won’t want to spend your evenings outdoors. Plus,
once the holidays roll around, you’ll be much less
motivated to overhaul your home.
Here, we’ll give you five totally manageable
ideas for organizing your home.

DON’T TACKLE YOUR WHOLE HOUSE;
START WITH A SINGLE ROOM…
It’s easy to become overwhelmed when
organizing your house. Make sure you don’t quit
before you start, by focusing on a single room,
like a garage or a basement. Some Pinterest
tips for organizing one of these rooms include
building a simple rack for storing your garden
tools or building a pegboard hanging wall for all
your crafting supplies. SORT ART PROJECTS AND These include wire racks that you can install
PAPERS WITH YOUR CHILDREN yourself ranging from near the floor up toward
…OR EVEN A SINGLE As much as you love your kids’ work, keeping all the top of the closet. You can also add wall hooks
DRAWER OR CABINET! of it would make for a cluttered mess! Before kids to your door, clothing rods to separate different
You can feel organizationally-accomplished even start back to school, sort through the projects they seasons of clothing, and wicker baskets to store
if you tackle even a smaller, pesky project. Why not completed over the summer and in the last school smaller items like scarves and gloves.
start on that junk door? Clean out papers, unusable year. With their input, consider which papers to
batteries, and other junk. Next, buy an affordable keep and which to toss, and then store the projects FOLLOW ALLISON VAN WIG
organizer with lots of slots to better arrange what in a binder, a file folder, or a large zippered portfolio. ON PINTEREST
you actually want to keep. Allison of Van Wig & Associates loves offering
You could also take on a cabinet or two in your MAKE YOUR CLOTHES organization tips on her Pinterest page. We just
kitchen. Organize water bottles using a magazine CLOSETS MORE FUNCTIONAL pinned 16 pantry organization ideas that have really
rack, a file folder for canned foods, and a towel rack No matter the size of your closet, you can make been helping us on our own seasonal organizing.
for your cleaning supplies. it more functional with added storage solutions. Follow Allison at www.pinterest.com/vanwig/. n

LAKEWOOD VILLAGE MARKET UPDATE

AVERAGE DAYS TO SELL AND PRICE YTD MONTHLY TOTAL LISTINGS AND SALES

40 $1,000,000 20

35

$800,000
30 15

25
$600,000

DAYS 20 PRICE LISTINGS 10

$400,000
15

10 5
$200,000
5

0 $0 0
JAN FEB MAR APR MAY JUN JULY AUG JAN FEB MAR APR MAY JUN JULY AUG

DAYS TO SELL, AVERAGE LIST PRICE, AVERAGE ACTIVE LISTINGS, NUMBER OF SALES, NUMBER OF

AREA COMPARISON REPORT

JULY 25, 2018 - JULY 25, 2017 -
AUGUST 24, 2018 AUGUST 24, 2017 YEAR 2018 TOTALS YEAR 2017 TOTALS

AREA SOLDS AVERAGE MEDIAN SOLDS AVERAGE MEDIAN SOLDS AVERAGE MEDIAN SOLDS AVERAGE MEDIAN

29-LAKEWOOD
VILLAGE 4 $913,500 $884,500 2 $815,000 $815,000 25 $762,360 $795,000 42 $746,343 $720,000

2