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The Empowered Homeowner - Understanding and Maintaining Your Home


Adult / Personal Finance and Life Planning -
Adult Fall 2025

PART 1 - Inspections and Maintenance - The first two classes will lay the ground work 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 and 4 - 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!  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. 

Sarah Baso

Sarah Baso is a licensed attorney with 18 years of experience working as an insurance claim negotiator, contract lawyer, nonprofit director, and entrepreneur running her own sewing and design business. Currently, she is a co-founder of a woman-owned and operated home renovation company where, in addition to many of the business operations, she is active in creating educational opportunities for homeowners to learn the right questions to ask their real estate agents, insurance agents and building contractors.

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  Sarah Baso


Eisenhower - Eisenhower Community Center : 225 Conf.Rm CC
Mon Sep 22, Mon Sep 29 & Mon Oct 6
6:00 - 8:00 PM

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Min Age   18 yr.