Home maintenance is not only important when getting ready to sell your home, but is important to maintain your home’s value and condition on a day-to-day basis. Regular home maintenance will help you in the resale of your home, it can make a difference in how your buyer views the home, and how your appraiser treats the home in relation to the economic age. But, resale isn’t the first thing on everybody’s mind today, right?Read more
Shopping for a Real Estate Agent
A few months ago I listened to someone tell me the story of a friend who wrote a full price offer on a house that had been listed for 500 days! There were no counter offers, no negotiations, no haggling. As I listened to this I wondered what the buyer’s real estate agent told them, and if there was more to the situation than I was hearing.Read more
Olivia is a Certified Distressed Property Expert
In 2010 I attended the CDPE (Certified Distressed Property Expert) training in Littleton, Colorado. This training offered insight into invaluable information about helping people to potentially avoid foreclosure.Read more
Should I Buy a Home Now?
I’m often asked if this is a good time to buy a home. Some clients are concerned that home prices may fall further than they have already. They are assuming that the best course of action is to wait for the bottom in the market and then buy. The problem with this approach is that you don’t know where the bottom is until you see it in the rear view mirror, meaning until you’ve missed it!Read more