A home is the greatest investment. Routine, preventive maintenance keeps your possessions looking good and functioning well, saves time and money, and preserves the value of the property. These suggestions can help extend the life of the home through precautionary protection. The first thing that you are going to do for you home maintenance is to build a maintenance binder. Use dividers for sections such as interior, exterior, basement, attic, garage and systems. Keep receipts and warranties under each designated section. You can also make some lists of the items that are necessary to be checked each year and as well as each month in order to ensure that all the facilities at home are being maintained. Add a list of things to do annually and two “shut down” lists, one for the interior and another for the exterior. Make sure to include the exterior part of your house when you do maintenance activity. You can ask somebody to get up into your roof and check if there are certain damages. Check the gutters if there are holes so that it will be repaired immediately. Make sure also to have checked the chimney, the mortar and the flashing, and see to it that trees near your house are being cut in order to avoid accident especially during typhoon. Make sure that shingles are also secure and being replaced. You can also call the help of experts for the annual maintenance of your home, before the time that it may get worst. You also need to make sure that all your window screens are in good condition still, and if not, it calls to be replace grit away. Update your binder frequently with information and explanation about routine maintenance, upgrades, purchases and warranties. Add a business card casing for contacts. Continue to construct your home journal and preventive protection timetable.