What to do if you can’t make your mortgage payments
It seems like only yesterday that the word “foreclosure” dominated the headlines as millions of Americans lost their homes during the Great Recession.Now, that dreaded…
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The Right Way to Remove Wallpaper
If you think wallpaper is something only your grandmother would love, think again. “Wallpaper is back with a vengeance,” Brook Anderson with Bay Hill Design…
A day in the life of a real estate agent
Some jobs look so easy, don’t they? Take writers, for instance. They not only work when they feel like it, all they do is sit…
The cost vs. benefit of buying a new-build home
You have to admit that the real estate industry is way out in front of the auto industry when it comes to marketing lingo.The latter,…
Yes, you can over-improve a house and lose value in the process
It’s one thing to hope your house is the nicest on the block and another thing entirely to own the nicest home on the block.…
3 types of home valuation
Whether it’s a car, garage sale items or you’re selling on websites such as Ebay, successfully selling “stuff” has one major requirement: you need to…
Is this a good time to buy or sell a home?
Social distancing. Self-quarantine. Hand sanitizer, soap and water and elbow-bumping instead of shaking hands.In our efforts to deal with a world-wide pandemic, not only are…
What you need to know about carbon monoxide in the home
Violence sells and “If it bleeds, it leads” has been the media’s strategy for the past decade or more. The gorier, more brutal the death,…
It’s almost spring and time to plan the perfect flower bed
It’s that time of year when the sun starts feeling a little bit warmer and the air a little less frigid. It’s almost gardening season…
Your handy real estate glossary
Once you enter the realm of real estate, whether buying or selling, you’ll hear a lot of language that may sound foreign.Keep this decoder handy…