Learn About Buying a Home
Guides from Agents for Home Buyers on the Boulder–Denver market — from first home to forever home.
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Creating Value Adding Curb Appeal
Creating Value Adding Curb Appeal by Shannon Weissleder Creating major curb appeal greatly increases your home’s value. When selling your house, you want to grab buyers from the moment they pull up to the curb. Most buyers are looking for a house that instantly looks like a “H-O-M-E”. Here are my top ideas for creating…
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Open Houses Are Not the Way to Find a Home in Boulder
Open houses are NOT the way to buy a home. The online info is better and you’re less likely to give away valuable info to a seller’s agent.
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Finding the Right School for Your Family
Finding the Right School for Your Family By Claudia Lewis Great Schools in our Area Many of our buyer clients list good schools as one of their reasons for selecting Boulder Valley as the place they want to live. In some cases, parents have already targeted the one school they would like their children to…
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Why Hire a Real Estate Buyer’s Agent?
Why Hire a Real Estate Buyer’s Agent? Why Not DIY? Today, you can find homes for sale and look up many things you need to know online. Do you really need a real estate agent? With all of the internet tools available today, there’s a lot of debate about whether a buyer needs an agent.…
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Top 5 House Flipping Strategies
Each property needs its own special kind of attention and love. Here are 5 top house flipping strategies that can help.
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Can low-cost 3D printing solve housing shortages?
Can low-cost 3D printing solve housing shortages? by Claudia Lewis Download and Print a Home? It’s a somber reality that 1.2 billion people worldwide live without adequate housing. For the past several years, New Story, a housing charity based in San Francisco, has built over 150 homes in El Salvador, where tarps and scrap metal…
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Why Hire a Real Estate Professional in a DIY World?
When my husband and I were newlyweds, our family situation led us to the decision to buy a home. My mom was handicapped and needed our help, and my younger brother was a student at community college. At the time, we had little or no understanding of the home buying process; we were completely clueless.…
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Pick Your Best Investment as a Residential Buyer
Pick Your Best Investment as a Residential Buyer By Norris Minick In a recent post, we presented some data on a gap that opened up between 2002 and 2010 between condo/townhome prices and prices for small single family homes. Then we noted that this gap narrowed substantially in most local communities over the past few…
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It’s a Good Time to Purchase an Investment Property
It’s a Good Time to Purchase an Investment Property Millennials are Waiting Longer to Buy In July 2016, U.S. homeownership rates hit their lowest percentage on record at 62.9%. What is the major cause of this trend? The dip in homeownership is most likely due to millennials waiting longer than ever to purchase their first…
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The Fascinating World of Dryer Lint
The Fascinating World of Dryer Lint It’s not unusual for home inspectors to find dryer ducts packed with lint in the course of an inspection. When they do, they strongly recommend dryer duct cleaning. This is not a trivial issue because the lint is potentially combustible and a somewhat common source of house fires. Do…