Tom Kraeutler is a home improvement

Home improvement

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 broadcast journalist

Journalist

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 and author.

Kraeutler co-hosts (with Leslie Segrete

Leslie Segrete

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) the nationally syndicated “Money Pit Home Improvement Radio Show” broadcast on more than 265 stations every weekend, with an audience of more than 4 million listeners. His home improvement tips are also broadcast across 350 radio stations weekdays during morning drive

Drive time

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 time. Talkers Magazine

Talkers magazine

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 named Kraeutler one of the “100 Most Important Radio Talk Show

Talk radio

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 Hosts in America.” He also publishes a weekly home improvement newsletter and podcasts the national radio program. The podcast of the show usually ranks at the top of the home improvement listings on iTunes

ITunes

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Kraeutler frequently contributes content to sites like Oprah.com, WalletPop.com and DIYLife.com. He has also served as the Home Improvement Editor for AOL

AOL

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, providing the site with a wide variety of multimedia content. His book, My Home, My Money Pit (co-authored with Segrete) was published by the Knack imprint of The Globe Pequot Press in 2008.

Kraeutler appears frequently on a wide range of network news and daytime television programs. He is often quoted as a home-improvement expert in major publications like the New York Times, USA Today

USA Today

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and CNN

CNN

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He has been a remodeling columnist for House Beautiful

House Beautiful

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has contributed to or been featured in many national magazines including Smart Money

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, Reader’s Digest and Consumer's Digest.

Kraeutler has more than two decades of experience as a professional home inspector

Home Inspector

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, former building contractor and industrial arts

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 educator. He was selected by former New Jersey Governor

Governor of New Jersey

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 Christine Todd Whitman

Christine Todd Whitman

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 to chair the state's first regulatory authority

Regulatory Authority

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 for the licensing of professional home inspectors, which he chaired for several years.

Kraeutler holds a BS in Industrial Arts Technology Education

Technology education

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 from Trenton State College and completed an international studies

International relations

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 program in architecture at the University of Copenhagen

University of Copenhagen

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 in Denmark

Denmark

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. He is also an accomplished craftsman, specializing in woodworking and metalworking.