Choosing the right neighborhood is an important part of choosing your dream home. Utilize these online resources to give you the information you need to make a smart decision.
A Photo Album – Worth More Than Just Vacation Photos
Pictures speak louder than memories! In the face of disaster, a full inventory of your home is priceless. Here are some easy steps to follow to lessen the impact.
Honey, the Washing Machine Hose Just Broke!
A water leak can do a great deal of damage very quickly inside your home. Learn about some great tools on the market that can “sound the alarm” at the first sign of unwanted moisture.
How to Avoid Hidden Water Damage in the Winter Months
Ice Dams and Attic Condensation are well known issues found in our Colorado climate. Here are some tips for homeowners on preventing these conditions and avoiding costly damage to your home.
Credit Is Much More Than Just a Plastic Card
Keeping track of your credit rating on a regular basis can protect against fraudulent activity or a simple mistake, which could jeopardize your future investments.
Six Home Investments That Add Enjoyment And Value
Take advantage of these six investments that will not only help you to enjoy your current home more, but will also increase the future value to prospective buyers, when the time comes.
Questions to Ask Before Buying a Home in a Golf Community
Golf course community living can be idyllic, active and relaxing, but it can also have its issues, depending on a number of factors. Due diligence on your part can ensure it is the experience you have always dreamed of.
Seller: Get Ready For The Appraisal
Is it possible to increased the appraised value of your home? Investing some time and care into your property beforehand, can increase the chances of it coming in at the high end of its potential value.
Some Clarity to The Appraisal “Waiver” Scenario
Waiving the appraisal objection can be an effective strategy for a Buyer when placing an offer on a property against competing offers. Understanding the process and results is the first step in deciding how much above an appraised value you are willing to guarantee.
Ten Tips to Keep a Remodeling Project from Being a Nightmare
Ensure your remodeling project is successful and productive by avoiding these ten common mistakes, keeping you wise on the cost and the process.
Green Ideas for the Colorado Homeowner: Ceiling Fans
The benefits of a ceiling fan in the summer months are well known. Investing in a fan with a reversible motor can extend those benefits into the winter months, reducing wear and tear on your furnace and saving energy.
Do You Need Title Insurance? Four Reasons You Do.
Ownership in a home might seem straightforward, but there are actually myriad ways in which title to – and ownership of – a property can be jeopardized. Title insurance exists to help ensure that any issues to a clean transfer of title don’t affect your home ownership rights. Just what does title insurance do?
Home Buying 12-month Countdown Timeline
Ready to take the plunge into home ownership? Whatever your motivation, buying a home is exhilarating and rewarding. But many rookie – and returning to the market – home buyers find the process trickier to navigate than they expect or remember.
Green Innovation On The Nearby Horizon
There is a fair amount of “gloom and doom” stories these days associated with the environment. Here are a couple of advancements on the green horizon.
Should You Hire A Professional Real Estate Agent To Sell Your Home?
Can you sell your house without hiring a professional licensed Realtor®? The short answer is, yes. But, why would you want to? Here are 10 factors that a seller should consider to make the experience fast, easy, correct the first time, and at a reasonable success fee. Pricing. The most important step is pricing your house properly. Professional agents don’t …
Two Vastly Different Marketplaces as 2016 Begins
The Denver metro real estate market continues to present unique challenges for sellers and buyers. The surging Colorado economy has contributed to records in average sales price for single family homes across the seven-county Denver metroplex. In the broad brush, we understand it is a strong seller’s market. In closer examination, we actually see two vastly different marketplaces as 2016 …
Patio Homes and Townhomes: Comparing and Contrasting
In many communities there are options to the kind of home a person or family can have. The most obvious are multi-level apartment complexes and traditional single-family detached houses in neighborhoods and subdivisions. In between these two extremes are a couple of options that are less known and understood – patio homes and townhomes. The differences are small but distinctive. …
Ready Your House to Sell Quickly at Top Dollar
Get Estimates and Certificates Eliminate surprises and be proactive. Find out what it might cost to replace the major systems in your house that could be on its last legs — like the furnace or a/c, roof or water heater, and in older homes, electrical and the sewer system. You may not be prepared or even want to replace or …
WARNING: Leasing Solar Panels for Homes Is Killing the Sale of Homes
Property owners who have solar panel leases on their homes are killing the sale of their home. As interest in solar continues to grow in Colorado and across the country, buyers and sellers need to be forewarned. It is more and more common to see disputes, and this problem will get worse. Let’s look at some reasons why. Solar companies …
You Know You’re a Coloradan When…
You worry about getting sunburned and frostbitten on the same day. You’re not surprised that a few weeks into Rockies baseball season some games are cancelled because of snow. You secretly chuckle when anyone east of Denver tells you they have mountains in their state too. You know that South Park is a real place. You go anywhere else on …
