For years, this community has been the place women bring questions about their homes and help each other find answers but it is limited. The mission has always been Empowering Women With Tools, and the best tool we can offer is knowledge.

We know keeping up with a home can feel overwhelming and confusing, because we are both responsible for one too. There's always something that needs doing and never enough time to do it. And more often than not, we don't realize something is about to fail until it sets off a chain of costly repairs.

Owning a home, as a single female, can get rough and if your not alone are you knowledgable enough that if one day you suddenly were you could handle it all?

That's why we're building out the educational side of Handy Women: home tours, guides, and courses created by Jenn and Hailey, who both grew up in the trades. Jenn has also been a single female homeowner for over 25 years, owned roofing and remodeling businesses, rentals, and received her certification as a home inspector. As a newsletter subscriber, you'll receive exclusive offers like the ones below.

70 pg. Documentation Tour of Your Home and its Systems with a 46-page fillable House Notes workbook $15

67 pg. Inspection Tour of Your Home and its Systems With a 47-page fillable Inspection Notes workbook $15

BUNDLE: Get Both Documentation and Inspection Tour With Notes $20

OUTLET IDs™ Circuit Labeling System $37.20

Proactive Homeowners™ Electrical 101 $99 FOR A LIMITED TIME WITH CODE: LASTCHANCE

Bonus: once you have the model numbers, look each one up at cpsc.gov/Recalls. It takes a minute and could tell you something important.

On most dryers, the label is inside the door opening or on the back panel. Since you're already back there, take one more look: at the plug, and at the receptacle it goes into.

Have you ever bought a used dryer and hooked it up yourself? It's one of the most common DIY jobs we see, and one of the easiest to get wrong without knowing it.

There is a proper way to install new dryer cords or change out one you bought from Facebook Marketplace. It depends on whether your wall has a 3-slot or a 4-slot receptacle, and on a small metal bar, or jumper wire, on the back of the dryer that bonds the neutral and ground together. With a 3-prong cord, the bonding device stays in. With a 4-prong cord, it comes out.

Here's the tricky part: get it wrong and the dryer still runs perfectly. That's exactly why the mistake is so common. A wrong setup can leave the dryer's metal cabinet without a safe path to ground, so a fault can energize the cabinet instead of tripping the breaker.

Know someone who just picked up a used dryer? Forward this to them.

Think back to the day you closed on your home. You signed a stack of papers, and someone handed you a set of keys. Maybe a garage door opener, if you were lucky.

No one walked you through or handed you a guide that included all of the materials used to build it, all of its systems and their components, where every shut off valve is, or a circuit directory of your electrical system but they should have!

You wouldn't buy a car without a Carfax report but where is the one for your home?

Just because one wasn't given to you doesn't mean you can't create one yourself!

Fact: To properly maintain a home, you must first know its structure, systems, and the condition each one is in.

Fact: Even if you know your home, no one else does. If all of that information is only stored in your head and not documented, it’s not helpful to others.

Fact: The more you know about your home the easier it is to convey what you want done to contractors and actually get the results you want. You might even save money by knowing when you are being told you need unnecessary work.

Fact: The Documentation Tour of Your Home and its Systems is a 70 page detailed walk through of your home one step at a time: outside structure and systems including your electrical, plumbing, and HVAC systems, then inside to look at the structure and systems there. The House Notes is a 46 page fillable, printable PDF that accompanies it.

Fact: Once you know your home, the Inspection Tour of Your Home and its Systems is a 67 page detailed follow up walkthrough that teaches you to check its condition. Each section clarifies what normal looks like and the warning signs worth noticing, with step by step instructions for simple checks like running a toilet dye test or testing the suction of your bathroom vent.

You record what you find in the 48 page Inspection Notes, marking each item OK, Monitor, Repair, or Call a pro. You'll end up with a clear list of what you can handle yourself and what needs a professional.

Once it's written down, your home knowledge becomes a record for others to reference:

Each purchase of the Documentation Tour or the Inspection Tour includes one access code for one residence.

Personal Use

For personal use within one household. You must purchase an additional copy for each additional household.

The more you buy the more you save so buy as many codes as you like to give to your parents, children or friends for their home too. What a great housewarming, birthday, or Christmas gift!

Handy Pick: After you fill out the notes, print them out and store them in a clear 3 ring binder. #ad

Knowing your home includes knowing your circuits. Outlet IDs™ is our Circuit Labeling System: a spiral-bound book with electrical education, fillable circuit diagrams, a panel directory, tally sheets, clear receptacle labels, panel labels and a Limit the Load magnet. Map your circuits once, label your receptacles and your panel, and no one in your home has to guess which breaker to flip again.

Outlet IDs™ Special Price: $37.20 For a limited time

The dryer is a good example of a bigger truth: electrical problems often hide behind things that seem to work fine. That's why we created Proactive Homeowners: Electrical 101, a course that teaches what's really happening with the invisible guest that lives in your home, in understandable terms.

Start free. The Electrical 101 mini-course is four short lessons, about 15 minutes in all. You'll learn what a household circuit really is and what a breaker can and can't protect you from. The downloads are yours to keep!

Keep going. The course is now open. Module 1, Lesson 1 "The Invisible Guest in Your Home" and Lesson 2 "Getting to Know Your Guest" are ready, and new lessons are being released over the coming weeks. One of them, "It Works Fine, Until It Doesn't," covers the dryer bonding strap and other hidden wiring mistakes, including what your electrician checks and does about them.

Enroll today for your last chance to get the course at $99 before Oct. 15th with code LASTCHANCE

NOTE: The LASTCHANCE code will expire on October 15th, 2026 at 11:59pm.

Dallas, TX - November 6 to 8, 2026

Handy Women is heading to DIY CON this November, and we want to see you there with us.

It’s three full days of hands-on workshops, live demonstrations, tools, products, creators, and opportunities to actually learn DIY skills in person.

If you have ever watched a tutorial and thought, I wish someone could just stand here and show me how to do this, this is exactly why we are excited about DIY CON.

Use the link below to purchase your ticket! Purchasing through our Handy Women affiliate link helps support Handy Women at no additional cost to you.

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Going to DIY CON? Join the Handy Women @ DIY CON Facebook group for room sharing, meet up info, finding a friend to explore the conference with and more!

Your home's knowledge shouldn't live in one person's head. Take the tour, write it down in the notes and pass it on.