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The Empowered Homeowner: Understanding Routine Maintenance and Repairs of Your Home and How to Navigate Homeowners Insurance


Adult and Senior / Lifelong Learning -
Adult Enrichment 2024-2025

In this four part series, students will learn the ins and outs of inspecting and maintaining your home and understanding homeowners insurance and claims. 

PART 1 - Inspections and Maintenance - The first two classes will lay the groundwork for understanding the basics of inspecting and maintaining your home. We will start with the exterior: when to inspect, what to look for, and why it is important.
PART 2 - Continuation of home inspections and maintenance, primarily for the interior of your home. This includes understanding possible environmental hazards like mold, asbestos, lead, and radon.
PART 3 - Understand Homeowners Insurance Policies - We will walk through the different sections of a homeowners insurance policy. What to look for, what the terminology means, and how to save money!
PART 4 - Repairs and Insurance Claims -- What do you do when you notice issues during your routine maintenance. When should you call a contractor? Who should you call? How do you screen or know they will do a good job? Additionally, we will talk about larger scale repairs and issues that may involve filing an insurance claim.

For online class A746W25, you do not need to be present for the live instruction, all sessions will be recorded and sent to registered students.

Sarah Baso

Sarah’s background includes working as a contract lawyer, nonprofit director, homemaker, and entrepreneur running her own sewing and design business. After making many mistakes in the process of purchasing and owning her first home, she became interested with the world of construction and water mitigation. After working through her own struggles with lack of knowledge about the insurance industry and claims process, she is now passionate about empowering other homeowners, particularly as it pertains to storm damage and insurance claims.


Sarah manages the behind the scenes infrastructure of Blackrock Exteriors including business operations and finance. She also is currently actively creating educational opportunities for homeowners to learn the right questions to ask their real estate agents, insurance agents and building contractors.

https://blackrockmn.com/meet-the-team/

When she’s not on the phone with insurance companies or meeting with the Blackrock Exteriors Team, she’s busy juggling her family’s schedule, taking a long run at Elm Creek Park, or enjoying the sunshine with a good book.

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A746W25

  Sarah Baso


Online
Tuesdays, Jul 8 - Aug 26
12:00 - 1:00 PM

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Min Age   18 yr.

Price: $ 39 00