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Growing Green: Landscaping Ideas to Sell Your Home

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When selling a home, your home’s landscaping could be your best advertisement. If potential home buyers are excited by your home’s curb appeal, you will have a better chance of getting them inside to tour your home and eventually make an offer. Home staging services and real estate agents agree that curb appeal is of [...]

Green is the New Gold

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Building “green” may be a modern day buzz word, but it’s something to be taken seriously when considering what to buy or invest in or where to spend your money when remodeling an older, less energy-efficient or environmentally friendly home for resale purposes.  To see what buyers want most in the way of green features, [...]

Short Sale Options for Homeowners

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Home sales have become increasingly popular. Home owners unable to make their mortgage payments will eventually find themselves being served with a foreclosure notice from their bank or lender. In order to stop the foreclosure they can opt to ask if they may move towards a short sale. This is an [...]

Sellers, consider the resale when building or remodeling!

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I have viewed hundreds of homes now in the Montrose area of Colorado, between the weekly broker tours, showing various homes to buyers, visiting the homes of potential sellers, and, of course, the homes of neighbors and friends.  One issue that regulalry arises is the homeowner who has overbuilt or over-remodeled, which makes us think [...]

Mortgage Loan Modification Overview

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Are you having problems paying off your housing loan? Do you fear you might be about to lose your home to your bank or loan provider? Before you stress yourself out thinking about this possibility, consider mortgage loan modification. This is a program that allows your loan to be reinstated so [...]

My two cents worth on buying and selling now in Montrose, CO

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All’s well and improving, it seems, on the Western Slope of Colorado.  Real Estate is picking up.  We’re actually closing deals, although it takes a lot longer with greater effort, frustration, and not so much help from the lending industry.  For buyers, despite the challenges with financing, it truly, definitely, most assuredly is the best [...]

MOLD in Brand New Construction

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Well, here's a first for me.  I just closed yesterday on the purchase by my buyer (whom we'll call "Annie") of a newly constructed home.  We did our walk-through in the morning with the builder/seller and his agent, and Annie's father, a retired public works engineer.  Annie works for a geotechnical engineering company and was especially [...]

First blog-Intro to me

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Hello, everyone!
This is exciting!  Maybe I shouldn’t admit this, but this is my first blog.  Of course, I’ve been hearing about them, and am even subscribed to a couple, but this is my first venture into my own blogdom.  I’ll admit, my primary purpose is as a markeing tool, but just as importantly, I want to [...]