Email etiquette: It’s not always what you say but how it’s received. “Per my last email” means “Uh, can you read? I already said that.” Most people who write, “I might be mistaken, but …” actually mean “You can’t really be saying something that dumb, right?”
This is why you need an email address for your home
While text messaging is usually the quickest and easiest way to get a message across, email is still king in professional, financial and academic correspondence. And it’s a great way to save on paper.
When sending an email to more than one person, you should know why you include others before hitting send. Do all the recipients need to take action or just one of them? Do all the recipients know each other? This is what CC and BCC were made for. Tap or click here to learn about proper email etiquette.
A home is the most significant investment most people will make. There’s a lot of information surrounding your home, and you’re probably using email to keep track of most of it. But things can get lost in the shuffle of your daily messages. You can get things under control by creating an email address just for your home.
A new home for your home
Managing all the emails related to your house can be exhausting. You’ll see your inbox fill up with messages related to utility bills, brokers, repair work invoices, mortgage payments, insurance, inspectors, banks, cable bills, moving companies, plumbing, landscaping, contracting and other services.
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Throw in the spam you’ll get related to your home from real estate companies, local dentists, cleaning services and others and your inbox will see no end to the clutter.
Creating an email account specifically for your home will help rein in all the correspondence related to it. It will be easier to manage and track those messages, plus it will ease some of the burdens on your primary inbox.
Let’s say your bathroom needs a renovation, and you can’t remember the contact information of that contractor you used years ago for the kitchen. Look through your home’s inbox to find that last invoice from the guy. Plus, all the contacts you need to keep in touch with regarding your home are in one place.
A dedicated home email address can be shared with others in your household. You and your spouse can co-manage those messages from anywhere without having to sort through each other’s inboxes. And if one person can’t log in for some reason, the other still can.
Where to begin
The first step is to organize the emails you already have so you can forward them to the new email account. You’ve been getting house correspondence in your personal inbox for years, and you don’t want to lose any of it.
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Whether you’re messaging a colleague or a friend on the other side of the world, email carries a formality that text messages lack. For example, you wouldn’t ask your boss for a raise through text, would you? Don’t answer that question.
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