What If You Could Take Your Mortgage Rate With You?
If you bought or refinanced a home a few years ago and are sitting on a 3% mortgage rate, I’m willing to bet you’ve said some version of this: “I’d love to move, but I’m never giving up this interest rate.” As a local Realtor, I hear it all the time. It’s one of the biggest challenges facing today’s
Home Buyers Broken Down By Generation
We continue to have inventory shortages in real estate markets nation wide and people continuously ask us “who is buying all of these homes?” So here is our answer broken down by generation. Let’s start off by talking about the “baby boomers” a baby boomer was born between 1946 – 1964. They dominat
Does Landscaping Increase Home Value? What Homeowners Should Know
What would be your guess as to what the first impression of your home is when guests or potential buyers arrive? You guessed it…. your landscape! The reality is that when a home is being built, the landscape is the last piece to the puzzle and therefore funds are at their lowest… so the landscape i
What Protection Do I Have as a Home Buyer or Seller?
As a 3rd generation REALTOR I have heard stories of agency law that goes back to 1946 with the legend of purchase agreements being done on a single page fill-in-the-blank carbon copy document. So to say that we are an evolving practice would be an understatement. Like attorneys and physicians, we
Live Like It’s Staged: Spring Cleaning Edition
Nine times out of ten, when we’re getting a home prepped and polished for its big listing launch, the homeowners pause in the doorway, look around, and say, “Wow… I wish my house looked like this the whole time we lived here.” So here’s the question: why didn’t it? Staging isn’t about making a home
