With the NAR Settlement and changes to the real estate industry, you may be wondering if you can just sell your house yourself. Why do you even need a Realtor®? Technically, you don't, but before you make any decisions you may want to thin...
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Hope you're enjoying the last few weeks of summer! The biggest thing on my mind this week is the changes coming to the real estate industry in August. You may have heard some mention of it on the news, and wondered if, or how, it...
If you've been thinking of buying or selling a home, or you watch, read or listen to the news at all, you may have heard changes are coming to our industry this month. In fact, these changes take effect nationwide on 8/17, but will start to be ...
Semifreddo had been off my radar for a while. Years, in fact. Until I had one in a restaurant recently and remembered what a delicious treat it is (and a great way to do a "wow" homemade ice cream sort of dessert without needing a churn. This i...
How do you sell a house if you still have a mortgage on it?
A lot of people have this question and it's understandable because most people have a mortgage on their home. The good news is you don't have to have completely paid off your h...
Here are the top 10 things that you might not think about (but should) before you get ready to put your house on the market.
Make sure that you've cleaned and tidied up before you leave the house in the morning. If you've got showings...
Your August Homeowners Checklist:
Clean and store summer essentials
Clean bathroom vent fan
Clean refrigerator coils
Clean carpets and floors
Organize the garage and add shelving
Clean the gutters
Prep closets for fal...
So one of the old adages about choosing a contractor is you can get fast, cheap, or good. You can usually get two of the three, but you can rarely get all three. Lots of people ask me all the time if I have somebody who can do xyz. If you a...
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Hope you're keeping cool! We're definitely in the dog days of summer. I'm currently in the phase of summer where I still love it, but more in the morning and evening than the middle of the day! Is that slowing down the market? No...
The idea of the slow slow slow market of summer has changed over the past few years. Those cycles we could always count on like clockwork had already changed a bit, but the pandemic really wiped them off the map. That means that even though Jul...