homezada

John and Beth are here to share with you their tips and suggestions, as well as interviews with industry experts, with the goal of helping you become a smarter homeowner. Once we buy a home, we now ask ourselves the question... Now what? Today’s episode focuses on the value of maintaining your home, including home maintenance and all the different things that we as homeowners need to do to maintain our home. Tune in for advice on everything from preventative maintenance to standard maintenance, what we can save, and how to improve the value of your home! 

IN THIS EPISODE:

•  [02:00] Standard care of the house.
• [05:00] Health and safety, including smoke detectors and carbon monoxide detectors.
• [10:00] Maintenance and the value of your home.
• [13:00] Increasing your replacement costs if you neglect small 30 minute tasks.
• [17:00] How to be reminded of tasks that need completing.
• [22:00] Should you be doing these tasks yourself or hire a contractor?
• [29:00] Start with the basics to figure out the typical maintenance things you need to do from a preventative standpoint.

KEY TAKEAWAYS:

• Keeping track of home maintenance will add value and save time.
• The difference between doing the tasks yourself or hiring a contractor.
• How to keep track of home tasks that need completing.

BIO:

Elizabeth Dodson is a focused technology entrepreneur with successful skills in business development, sales, marketing and finance with over 20 years of successful management of revenue producing partners. With great organizational skills balancing multiple roles and responsibilities as an entrepreneur and the drive to increase company revenues and user growth for a consumer technology solution with a partner solution to support the homeowner market.

John Bodrozic has start-up entrepreneur experience beginning with bootstrapping, profitable growth, securing venture and corporate venture funding, acquisitions of technology companies, and selling a business to a publicly traded company.

The Be A Smarter Homeowner podcast is hosted by John Bodrozic and Elizabeth Dodson, the co-founders of HomeZada. 

The word ‘home’ means different things to different people. In this episode John and Elizabeth discuss various types of homes, from farms to townhouses as well as all aspects of home management. Home management includes collectibles, the physical structure of the home and keeping track of finances and documents. 

To save money and time, a digital home management system could assist in streamlining all home assets in one place. 

With a digital management system, you can make the specific decisions for personal home possessions and finances that may be different to your neighbour, and HomeZada could be the solution. HomeZada does the thinking for you and is accessible via your mobile phone or desktop. 

IN THIS EPISODE:  

• [01:00] Welcome to be a smarter homeowner podcast[Text Wrapping Break] 
• [04:00] What does the collection of assets mean?[Text Wrapping Break] 
• [08:00] Inventory tracking of your equipment and assets[Text Wrapping Break] 
• [13:00] How many maintenance management tasks does an average home need?[Text Wrapping Break] 
• [17:00] Maintaining paper documents in the house 

 KEY TAKEAWAYS:  

• There are a vast amount of types of homes and a variety of family structures and living situations.[Text Wrapping Break] 
• There is a wide range of home assets which need maintaining, from collectables to personal finance documents.[Text Wrapping Break] 
• To save money and time, a digital home management system could assist in streamlining all home assets in one place. 

BIO:  

Elizabeth Dodson is a focused technology entrepreneur with successful skills in business development, sales, marketing, and finance. Over 20 years of successful management of revenue producing partners. Great organizational skills balancing multiple roles and responsibilities as an entrepreneur. Drive and increase company revenues and user growth for a consumer technology solution with a partner solution to support the homeowner market. 

John Bodrozic has start-up entrepreneur experience beginning with bootstrapping, profitable growth, securing venture and corporate venture funding, acquisitions of technology companies, and selling a business to a publicly traded company. 

In today's episode, Beth Dodson and John Bodrozic share a bit of their background in entrepreneurship and their journey as homeowners. Then, Beth and John explain the inspiration behind HomeZada and what the process was like developing an all-in-one suite of apps to manage your home. Then, the two discuss why they wanted to start the Be A Smarter Homeowner Podcast. Tune in as Beth and John talk about what type of homeowners they typically work with and what you can expect from future episodes of this show.

IN THIS EPISODE:

• [01:20] Beth Dodson and John Bodrozic share their entrepreneurship backgrounds and their journey as homeowners.
• [13:00] How Beth came up with the idea for HomeZada. 
• [18:30] The process behind developing an all-in-one suite of apps to manage your home. 
• [24:35] The reason Beth and John decided to start the Be A Smarter Homeowner podcast.  
• [26:45] The types of homeowners that Beth and John work with on HomeZada. 
  

KEY TAKEAWAYS:

• A lot of renters today are considering buying a home, and they don’t understand what to do once they get into the home. This podcast will help people manage their homes. 
• Being a first-time homeowner is a journey, and it takes time to learn how to manage and maintain your home. 
• Managing multiple homes can be difficult without the proper solutions. 
• On average, in the United States, a person lives in their home for five to seven years. 
• Depending on where you are in the homeowner’s journey, this podcast has a vast array of content that you can explore.

LINKS MENTIONED:

Be A Smarter Homeowner

www.beasmarterhomeowner.com 

HomeZada

www.homezada.com

BIO:

Welcome to Be a Smarter Homeowner podcast, where hosts, Beth Dodson and John Bodrozic are dedicated to helping you save money and get organized while managing, maintaining, protecting, improving, and eventually buying or selling your largest financial asset and biggest expense, your home. 

Discover how easy it is to be a smarter homeowner.

Having worked with homeowners for over 20 years, your co-hosts are two of the three co-founders of HomeZada, a digital home management software platform that helps you to manage everything about your home in one digital place.

Episodes of Be a Smarter Homeowner Podcast will feature John and Beth as they explore all the different aspects you need to know while owning a home; from home maintenance, home improvement projects, tracking your home finances, storing important documents, to creating a home inventory. With a focus on the financial impacts all of these things have on your home’s value and the expense to own it, turn the complexities of homeownership into solutions that will make your life easy and stress free. 

Being a homeowner can be costly and frustrating if you're not in the know.

The podcast will feature experts in the industry. And with your home likely being one of the largest purchases of your lifetime, these experts will keep you informed, offer you tips and tricks, and weigh in on the risks and benefits of all things related to homeownership.

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Beth Dodson saw the corporate layoffs and turmoil all around her in the early ‘90s. Rather than wring her hands, she decided to act as if her own layoff was a fait accompli. Looking back, she concludes, “Sometimes when one door closes, three doors open—not necessarily a bad thing.” Earning an MBA and trusting her instincts, she took a risk on a start-up. Her career reflects adapting to change, from a corporate job to joining an early stage startup that grew to a successful acquisition, to recently starting her own company.