When it comes time to renovate your home or undergo a major remodeling project, the one thing you may want to consider is repurposing that guest room that is maybe used once a year when company comes. If you are like most other homeowners, there is that one room that simply sits there begging to be used and unless you have more company than you care to have, it will continue sitting there gathering dust. Why not convert that old guest room into a home office? Doesn’t every home need one?
Bookkeeping Made Easy
One of the biggest complaints most homeowners have is losing track of all those monthly bills that come in. No matter how organized your filing cabinet is, you seem to lose bills, run out of space on that sheet of paper you’re doing your calculations on and simply have trouble staying organized enough to get through all those monthlies in just one go at it. A home office could be set up in such a way that you had a scanner at hand, a software program on your PC or laptop like QuickBooks and a comfortable environment to sit in quietly to figure out how much you owe and to whom.
Scan your bills as they come in and you can throw the hard copy out. You never need to worry about losing a bill this way because your computer will have an accurate copy of it. Also, many of those bills you can stop from being mailed by signing up for bill pay online.
Further Your Education and Your Career Online
Then there is the fact that many of the nation’s leading universities offer master’s degree or doctorate degrees online. If you are a nurse, for example, you could take your RN to MSN course online from Bradley University of Peoria Illinois and within a year you would have a masters of science in nursing, which would often double your pay literally overnight.
That is, of course, once you get that master of science in nursing online degree. It’s the same degree you would get if you attended class on campus, just a whole lot more convenient.
Turn that Space to a Profit
In today’s economy, growing numbers of people are freelancing and so they turn a room in their home into a home office. One of the trendiest ways to make money from home is to set up a virtual marketplace and the only thing you really need is a computer, online access and a number of wholesale distributors you can sell through. You don’t even need to keep an inventory. All it takes is to become an affiliate in many cases and they will send out the merchandise. In fact, there is even a platform known as drop shipping in which you list products, take the money, and put the order through to the manufacturer who in turn ships the product to the final customer. It’s a great setup and a lucrative one if you are consistent.
Whether you simply want to make use of that guest room that is hardly ever inhabited or have need for a home office, they are a growing trend and every home really should have one.
