It’s a snowy March Monday. Getting ready to take some clients on round two of shopping trip for second showings of properties. The market is moving fast so there is no time to lose, especially if you’re going to list one home for sale and buy another. [...]
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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 [...]
A Warm Welcome
The holidays are coming and along with them… house guests. If you’re like me, the shopping and cooking and cleaning miraculously manage to get done. Having a snappy home office leaves me without a proper guest room, but the sheets get changed, sleeping accommodations are made and everyone seems to be happy. I mean…they come [...]
When a House Shows You What it is, Believe It.
I live in Denver. The houses here can be pretty old. Beautiful Victorians, Denver Squares and Craftsman Bungalows line the graceful streets with their Dutch Elm trees and cracked sidewalks. As a real estate agent who specializes in the downtown Denver neighborhoods, I know these homes, some of them rather intimately. When my buyers are [...]
The Mortgage Interest Deduction in Trouble?
How would it affect you if you could no longer write off the interest you pay on your mortgage? According to panelists at Friday’s housing forum hosted by Zillow and the University of Southern California’s Lusk Center for Real Estate: The burgeoning federal debt makes it unlikely that the mortgage interest tax deduction will survive [...]
Vacation or Jail?
What’s the alternative to a little time off? Usually it’s some other kind of time off, like a stress-related illness or maybe prison. Like most of the Middle Class, I don’t often give myself time off, and taking a vacation is the last thing on my mind. Taking my boys on a trip? Of course, [...]
Real Estate: It ain’t about the bagels.
Fortunately, my office meetings aren’t like that. One of the reasons I moved to Your Castle is because they’re widely considered the local experts in the Denver Metro real estate market. We don’t waste time with the corporate clap-fest and weekly prize winners, our sales meetings are chock full of market data, which lays out [...]
TEENS AND THE CITY
Planning a trip to New York is always exciting, but planning a ten day trip with two teenage boys is a handsome cab horse of a different color. How could they see New York’s New York, my New York and find those “I Heart NY” moments for themselves? I knew I had to keep it [...]
Stumbled Upon and Had to Share! “Cultured People Happier and Less Stressed”
http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/cultured-people-happier-less-stressed. People who go to museums and concerts or create art or play an instrument are more satisfied with life, regardless of how educated or rich they are. For years we’ve read studies about how arts in education create better students, especially with the math+music connection. Here’s proof (I’m calling it proof) that you don’t [...]
The Virgin and the Badass Bard
Theatre’s obsession with Shakespeare, coined ‘bardolotry’ by George Bernard Shaw, has always escaped me. While Voltaire called his work “an enormous dunghill”, my aversion to Sir Will is far less eloquent. Not knowing my First Folio from my “What ho Malvolio”, I’d quipped “I hate Shakespeare” in defense. “You don’t know what the hell he’s [...]