Well, at long last, my main blog site of FixerFixer.com has a home. I had two web sites for about the same length of time. One was for my Real Estate sales, and marketing, the other was for my home repair, and services business, at www.aspringcleaning.com
I leased the Real Estate site because for $30 per month there was a lot of content. The A Spring Cleaning site taught me that owning a web site was expensive. I had paid $2000 for three pages that I supplied the content for. Any time there was a need for a change I had to contact some one who knew HTML? or something. Our cleaning business still leases a web site, and they took over the site for A Spring Cleaning. We just converted that to a Word press blog last month and it is very well received.
In 2006 a friend of mine told me about Word Press, and helped set up a web site for my domain name FixerFixer.com. I bought server space and began writing about a fixer project that we were working on. It was an immediate success, and I was getting all these comments, questions, and responses. It was fun for about a month until a pattern started with contractors admonishing me for doing the work myself. Then the spam started. As I began adding plug ins it was once again obvious that I needed web help. Then the site crashed. It all got to be a problem so I left the internet to others.
It’s now two years later. My work with Word Press has been greatly enhanced by using www.godaddy.com Word Press hosting, and tools. All of my files have been transferred here, except for the photos. Over time, I’ll probably organize, and continue to write. My goal is to give a clear picture of how to identify good properties, with cost effective ways to repair, renovate, and improve. Of course I would like for the sites to pay for themselves.
If you have followed this site, you know it’s been a while since I’ve added content. Most of it is a couple of years old with new posts since January. This will get more attention this year, and my hope is to start a new project. We’ll see.
