Wednesday, April 13, 2011
Selling a house can be a very hectic time with so many things to be done. The single most-important thing to do to prepare your home for sale is to de-clutter. I cannot emphasize it enough. Get a head start on moving by packing up boxes in the very beginning of things you don’t need [...]
Tuesday, March 29, 2011
In today’s real estate market with a large inventory of homes for sale it is critical to prepare your home to “sell”. De-cluttering, rearranging furniture, de-personalizing and good lighting are just a few things that can make the difference between your home and the house next door. Consider looking at your house through the eyes [...]
Thursday, March 24, 2011
A home just down the street from me went to auction this week, and I stopped by to check it out. Most of us in the North Lake Tahoe area – agents included – are new to real estate auctions. We’ve been lucky in that our market has not been as distressed as so many [...]
Monday, March 7, 2011
In a recent study, the Chicago Booth/Kellogg School Financial Trust Index found that a full 36% of Americans would consider “strategic default”—another term for walking away from your mortgage—if they were underwater (owed more on their home than what it was worth). Now that more than one in four American homeowners is “underwater,” I feel [...]
Tuesday, January 4, 2011
Kind: adj. warmhearted, friendly; kindness n. In the 13th century “kind” was used to mean “wellborn” and “of good nature”; in other words “possessing all the (good) qualities usually attributed to those of good birth”. Today – the meaning is the same, yet the actions in today’s day and age may not… Or are they? [...]
Monday, November 22, 2010
I don’t think there is anyone out there who would not agree that the real estate market in the Reno-Sparks area, and in many other areas around the country, has been hard hit over the past several years. We have all seen our property values decline pretty significantly. Many folks are struggling to find jobs. [...]
Thursday, September 17, 2009
Interest rates on home mortgages dropped again with the 30-year fixed-rate mortgage averaging 5.08%. Check out this article in the Wall Street Journal.
Thursday, September 17, 2009
Now may be the time to join the ranks of homeowners. Check out this article from the Wall Street Journal written by James B. Stewart.
Thursday, February 12, 2009
Real Estate activity in the Truckee area has spiked considerably since the first of the year. Since January 1 there have been 60 new home escrows in the Truckee area with 34 of them coming in the past 14 days! 27 of those 60 have been in Tahoe Donner with 17 of them occurring [...]
Wednesday, July 6, 2011
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