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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 [...]

What’s Happening in the Ouray County, CO Residential Market?

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Although I work out of my real estate office in Montrose, CO, I also live in Ridgway, Ouray County.   I get the occasional listing or buyer looking in this area, which alway pleases me, since I love living here so much.   Today, as I work from my beautiful home with the spectacular view of the [...]

5 Reasons Why Now is a Good Time to Sell–and Why It May Not Be

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We’ve been hearing for quite some time that it’s a buyer’s market and a great time to buy.  That is probably not going to change any time soon in 2011.  So what happens if you’re a seller or thinking about selling?  Are there good reasons to sell now?   Here are 5 reasons why now may be a [...]

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 [...]

Transaction Brokerage in Colorado–What the Heck is That?!!

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Most people have some concept of agency, although a lay person may not understand completely the legal definition and ramifications of agency.  To confuse the issue, many people refer to a licensed real estate professional as a real estate agent, without considering or appreciating the legal significance of the term “agent.”
In Colorado, not all real [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]