Back in the day, the most important thing you could do to make a great first impression on buyers for your home was to make sure that when they pulled up in front for the first time, your façade and front yard landscaping would make them swoon. Well, times have changed. ...
Continue ReadingWhen someone asks a real estate agent if this is a good time to buy or sell a house, the answer is almost always a resounding “Yes!” That answer is programmed into our brains on our first day of real estate school, and throughout our careers, the Yes is reinforced. Sometimes ...
Continue ReadingTheir ads are all over your television screen. You see buyers swooning all over the house of their dreams. And then there is a voice in the background telling them how important it is to have their mortgage lined up so they can take on the other buyers (some of whom ...
Continue ReadingA lot of my news feeds are from places like Inman News and RISMedia, news services that are specific to real estate. The information about market trends is very different that what I hear on any of the network news services in one very important respect. The national news networks ...
Continue ReadingRabbit Holes Since I left Kansas in my teens, I’ve been a Francophile. And most of my life, I’ve wanted to live in Paris, or at least someplace in France. And once I got completely hooked on Martin Walker’s murder mystery series, Bruno, Chief of Police, the someplace in France became the Perigord, ...
Continue ReadingWhen my parents moved to the Washington area sometime around 1970, their newly build house had the latest in the fashion of the day – a kitchen theme with avocado green and harvest gold in the appliances and wallpaper. It was about as chic and trendy as one could get, until ...
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