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General Info, Homeowner Tips

Increasing The Value Of Your Home

When it comes to one of the largest assets you’ll ever own, it’s important to ensure that you keep the value on par with where it should be in relation to other homes in the area. As you start seeing other homeowners doing upgrades to the inside or outside of their property, it’s important to […]
Sellers

When Is The Best Time To Sell???

If you’ve ever considered selling your home, you’ve likely procrastinated about it for months and sometimes even years. It’s a big step. Is now the best time? Will the market change? Where would we move to? These are all questions that likely pop into your head. It can be too much to consider and as […]
General Info

Helping Out In Our Community

Fall has arrived and we are nearing the Holidays quickly. You’ve undoubtedly noticed that everything is now flavored with “Pumpkin Spice” and the tastes, smells and sights are getting everyone into the Holiday spirit. Inside my real estate business, I’m involved with a Mastermind Group of agents all over the country that try to give […]
Building Wealth

This Won’t Last Forever

I’ve been very happy to see that over the last 5 to 6 years, the mortgage lending guidelines have relaxed a good bit which makes homeownership more achievable for a larger number of people. With those more normalized guidelines, also comes opportunity for those that are interested to break into the investing world with very […]

General Info Increasing The Value Of Your Home When it comes to one of the largest assets you’ll ever own, it’s important to ensure that you keep the value on par with where it should be in relation to other homes in the area. As you start seeing other homeowners doing upgrades to the inside or outside of their property, it’s important to […]

Sellers When Is The Best Time To Sell??? If you’ve ever considered selling your home, you’ve likely procrastinated about it for months and sometimes even years. It’s a big step. Is now the best time? Will the market change? Where would we move to? These are all questions that likely pop into your head. It can be too much to consider and as […]

General Info Helping Out In Our Community Fall has arrived and we are nearing the Holidays quickly. You’ve undoubtedly noticed that everything is now flavored with “Pumpkin Spice” and the tastes, smells and sights are getting everyone into the Holiday spirit. Inside my real estate business, I’m involved with a Mastermind Group of agents all over the country that try to give […]

Building Wealth This Won’t Last Forever I’ve been very happy to see that over the last 5 to 6 years, the mortgage lending guidelines have relaxed a good bit which makes homeownership more achievable for a larger number of people. With those more normalized guidelines, also comes opportunity for those that are interested to break into the investing world with very […]

Homeowner Tips To Improve or Not To Improve One of the biggest common misconceptions when it comes to your home is that all improvements will give you the value back and then some. This is TOTALLY untrue. I’ve met with homeowners that believe their home is worth $4,000 more than the others because they just replaced the air conditioner. No, your home is […]

General Info Is It Time To Rescue Your Retirement? Most of my real estate clients have been very happy with the increase they’ve seen in the value of all their investments over the past few years. When the economy is strong, nearly everything is going up in value. Stocks, bonds, real estate, 401k and more just seem to keep climbing and climbing. Do you […]

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Homeowner Tips Does Curb Appeal Really Matter THAT Much? You probably have a friend or two that’s working on some upgrades or repairs inside their home this month. It’s very common for us to want to improve the area in which our family lives. Everything from carpet to hardwood to fresh paint and sometimes even room additions or kitchen upgrades. Many times, these small […]