Building a home? Go green and ensure its future value
In all the excitement of choosing your lot, your appliance package and all the other extras that go into buying a new home, something important…
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6 reasons your competitors are beating you in the bidding wars
It’s Sunday evening and John and Mary Homeseller and Anita Deal, their real estate agent, are sitting at the dining room table, ready to confront…
Summer countdown – one week away. Is your patio ready?
Yikes! Doesn’t it seem that frigid temperatures greeted us in the morning just yesterday? Believe it or not, summer is knocking on the door. If…
3 questions you absolutely, positively must run by your real estate agent
Caution: Taking action on a whim, without consulting your real estate agent, may be hazardous to your real estate transaction and, thus, your pocketbook. All…
What are you talking about? Real estate terms explained
Remember that first day on a new job when it sounded as if your colleagues were speaking a different language? Most industries have their own…
Baby, it’s hot outside: 5 ways to keep your home cool and save big bucks this summer
The weather folks are saying that residents of the eastern U.S. can look forward to warmer-than-average early-summer temperatures, while those in the west will have…
What the rich and famous look for in a home
Across the country, inventories of available homes are suppressed and buyers in most price ranges are meeting stiff competition for homes that are in decent…
Tips to stretch your home-buying dollars
big pile of the money. dollars usaBudgets: They reflect a reality that we either revel in or despise. If yours is reflecting the fact that,…
What’s it worth? 3 questions about value-boosting home characteristics
Of the many questions we field from homeowners thinking of selling their homes, the most frequent starts with “What’s it worth?” Of course they’re referring…
4 tips to make small rooms look larger
Sure, “tiny homes” are now a fact of life in the real estate world. No, they aren’t the rage some would have you think, but…