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COLORADO REAL ESTATE ARTICLES
Step 5 to Selling Your Home: Repair Time
Step 5 to Selling Your Home: Repair Time If you did pre-market inspections, we should already have a list of major items that need to be fixed. If not and your dishwasher hasn’t been working for years or your AC unit has been making an unusually loud noise, we need to know so we can have those...
Step 4 To Selling Your Home: Conduct a Pre-Market Inspection
We are big believers in pre-market inspections, especially for single family homes. This means you pay an inspector to inspect your home before it goes on the market. This allows us to fix any items that would come up in a buyers inspection report before the home goes on the...
Step 3 to Selling Your Home: Time to Declutter and Stage Your Home!
Step 3 to Selling Your Home: Time to Declutter and Stage Your Home! Once all of the paperwork is complete, we’ll walk through your home room by room with you to create a comprehensive list of items that need to be decluttered, furniture that needs to be moved or put in storage, and together we’ll...
Step 2 to Selling Your Home: You’ve Hired a Realtor. Now What?
Step 2 to Selling Your Home: You've Hired a Realtor. Now What? You’ve picked a Realtor (Us!). Yeah! Now what? Now we need to get your home ready for the market. This involves: More paperwork. Selling your home involves a lot of paperwork. We will be emailing you all the disclosures...
Step 1 To Selling Your Home: Find a Realtor
Step 1: Find a Realtor Many home owners start the selling process by looking at sites such as Realtor.com, Zillow, Redfin or Trulia to see what similar properties have recently sold for in their neighborhood in an effort to determine the current value of their home. That’s fine and...
VIDEO: Mortgage trick to payoff your mortgage early and save money
Have you ever wondered how to pay off your mortgage early without breaking the bank? Watch this quick video by Stephen Griffin, with Guaranteed Rate, to find out how to pay off your mortgage 5 to 6 years earlier & save thousands on loan interest....
2023 Design Trends
Staying current in your Home design, landscaping, paint colors, etc. is going to not only improve the appreciation you have for your home, but it will also increase the value of your home. For 2023 there are several "in" paint colors, what's trending in furniture design & decor, landscaping,...
Step 23 to Buying a Home: Securing Your New Home
Home Ownership is wonderful and protecting your new investment / asset is of the upmost importance. So, consider securing your new home by installing some security measures: Things We Think Are Must Have Security Measures (we really want you to do these. pretty please) Rekey all of your door...
Step 22 to Buying a Home: Do You Want a Home Warranty?
A home warranty is not the same thing as homeowners insurance, nor is it a replacement for homeowners insurance. Homeowners insurance covers major perils such as fires, hail, property crimes, and certain types of water damage that could affect the entire structure and/or the homeowner’s personal...
NATIONAL REAL ESTATE ARTICLES
Two Resources That Can Help You Buy a Home Right Now
A recent report from Realtor.com says 20% of Americans don’t think homeownership is achievable. Maybe you feel the same way. With inflation driving up day-to-day expenses, saving enough to buy your first home is more of a challenge. But here’s the thing. With the right resources and help, you can...
How Home Equity Can Help Fuel Your Retirement
If retirement is on the horizon, now’s the time to start thinking about your next chapter. And you probably want to make sure you’re set up to feel comfortable financially to live the life you want in retirement.What you may not realize is you likely have a hidden goldmine of cash you’re not...
3 Reasons To Buy a Home Before Spring
Let’s face it — buying a home can feel like a challenge with today’s mortgage rates. You might even be thinking, “Should I just wait until spring when more homes hit the market and rates might be lower?”But here’s the thing, no one knows for sure where mortgage rates will go from here, and waiting...
What To Do If Your House Didn’t Sell
Some HighlightsLast year, as many as 1 in 3 sellers took their home off the market because it wasn’t selling.If this happened to you too, you don’t need to be embarrassed. What you need are answers. And a local real estate agent can help with that by seeing if it was priced too high, needs some...
Smaller Homes, Bigger Opportunities: The Homebuilder Trend Buyers Love
It’s no secret that affordability is tough with where mortgage rates and home prices are right now. And that may have you worried about how you’ll be able to buy a home. But, if you don’t need a ton of space, you may find you have more cost-effective options in an unexpected place: new home...
If Your House’s Price Is Not Compelling, It’s Not Selling
There’s one big mistake you need to avoid when you sell your house this year: setting your price too high. It might seem like overpricing gives you room to negotiate or could really boost your profit, but the reality is, it usually backfires.In fact, Realtor.com says almost 20% of sellers — that’s...
Why More People Are Buying Multi-Generational Homes Today
Today, 17% of homebuyers are choosing multi-generational homes — that’s when you buy a house with your parents, adult children, or even distant relatives. What makes that noteworthy is that 17% is actually the highest level ever recorded by the National Association of Realtors (NAR). But what’s...
When Is the Perfect Time To Move?
It’s easy to get caught up in the idea of waiting for the perfect moment to make your move – especially in today’s market. Maybe you’re holding out and hoping mortgage rates will drop, or that home prices will fall. But here’s what you need to realize: trying to time the market rarely works. And...
2025 Housing Market Forecasts
Some HighlightsWondering what to expect when you buy or sell a home this year? Here’s what the experts say lies ahead.Mortgage rates are projected to come down slightly. Home prices are forecast to rise in most areas. And, there will be more homes available for sale.Want to know more about what...
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