One of my favorite things about being in real estate is looking at houses. I’m mad about architecture, color, design, shape and style. I love staging that brings out the best features in the home while keeping it homey. Watching home improvement shows, HGTV, and all that real estate porn… I must admit, excites me. [...]
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Denver Real Estate Trends 4th Quarter, 2012
I’d like to get all geeky on ya but I’ve brought the visual aids. Click below for the famous Your Castle Real Estate map of Central Denver to compare single family residential property values with the 4th quarter of 2011. You’ll see the percent of appreciation or decline, the days on market (DOM) and months [...]

The Buyer/Seller Love Connection
I am (where real estate is involved) lucky in love. I’m not talking about the beach house I got in the last divorce *winks* but how often I find Cupid at the closing table. It takes work to find a house with everything on your buyers’ wish list, but it’s nothing short of kismet when [...]

A Dark Night, Indeed
How many mornings must we wake up to senseless violence? Today I am deeply saddened, I am stunned. I am ready to write but all of my energy goes to the victims, the families, my community and my country in this time of tragedy. Love someone today, and love them out loud. From Senator Mark [...]

“Home Sales Slow Slightly but Still Up”… see what I mean?
Every little thing is a big thing these days. Working our way out of the greatest economic downturn in recent history, combined with election year histrionics tend to create some confusing headlines. It’s like seeing a fire ant on the sidewalk, taking a magnifying glass to it and finding you’ve blown the damn thing up! [...]

News That’s New to the News…
Well, look who’s coming back around. With all due respect for the “Respected Media”, it looks as if they finally got the memo. Though real estate, like the weather, is hyper-local the mainstream types reporting on the national outlook finally figured out that the housing market is growing again. Both The Wall Street Journal and [...]

Shining Light on the Shadow
Yesterday I read an article in the Denver Post which lead with, “Colorado could be facing new wave of foreclosures”, intimating a pending flood of the so-called “Shadow Inventory”. “Could” being the operative word. First, let’s define this Shadow Inventory: the number of properties that are either REO or 90+ days late on their mortgage [...]
Do You Know Prudence?
Perhaps you’ve heard of Prudence Mabhena, read about her in the Sunday paper, heard the story on NPR, caught the film about her at the Telluride Film Festival, or saw her beaming at the Oscars when Music by Prudence won Best Documentary. There is a lot to know about Prudence Mabhena, a lot to learn [...]
My Naked Truth
Regarding the nudity, or lack of it, in the Aurora Fox’s production of “The Graduate”, John Moore’s mention of it in the Sunday Denver Post and the current dialogue… The decision about the nudity was made before I signed on to do the show. I was aware that the script called for it when I [...]

The Game of Having Game
It’s Friday night. The Broncos are in the playoffs and the Mile Hi City is tickled…orange. In Denver, we take our football seriously. Denizens will brave tomorrow’s freezing temps to celebrate at pre-game tailgate parties and freeze their own tails in the stands, while the taste of beer, brats and a Broncos victory creates an [...]