I just got back from a meeting with a local mortgage broker, Ken Cook.  He let me know about a great sounding program to remedy the situation when you want to move and can’t find that perfect house… with the perfect garage.  If you can find the house, he can do a loan that folds [...]

That is the goal if you are a seller.

Yesterday, in the REALTOR®  Magazine Daily Briefing there was a short report on the findings of a story in Baltimore.  It seems that getting a house to sell fast in even a tough market (and Baltimore is a tough market) takes the same things it does at [...]

In response to janeAnne’s post about What would you do if money were no object to build a dream green home, I had to expand to a full post.

Here is what I originally responded with in the comments of her post:

If money were no object… but taste was:

Active Solar water heating, and power generation.
Passive solar [...]

I am about to perform a feat of magic… I am going to combine two such different things, that you won’t believe I was able to actually pull it off…

In the first corner, we have a real estate transaction. Just about every time a home changes hands, there are obstacles and challenges. Sometimes the challenges [...]

I’m going to deviate a little from my normal pattern here.

I just ran across a story (printed, sorry no link) about encapsulated crawlspaces. It was touting the energy savings that could be realized by encapsulating the crawlspace. I have seen some claims as high as 15% savings in heating a cooling.

More importantly, I [...]

I just have a question.

I’m curious what you are looking for in your next house. You don’t have to be in the market right now. I’m just curious how the real world stacks up to the National Association of REALTORS(R) Buyer Profile surveys. I’m not going to list the attributes that they [...]

I was up late, and caught a little bit of the Nightline episode where they featured a “bubble blogger” in California. One of the statements he made was that housing was not a good investment compared to the stock market over the last 30 years. That line was screaming at me.

I went to [...]

In the last post, I highlighted a few really cool items. Now, I’m going to move the other way and look at some cheap (but still cool) stuff. Of course, I think that the most links I’ve come across have been regarding tool storage. And, tool storage is a biggie. Personally, [...]

***I’m proud to have a guest host for today. Angel Walker is a professional stager here in the Atlanta area. Here is a quick bio about Angel.

Angel Walker is an Accredited Staging Professional Master™ and the owner of Staging Professionals, LLC. Angel received her training directly from Barb Schwarz, the [...]

If your listing doesn’t have good pics, you’d better make it REALLY cheap. REALLY, REALLY cheap.

84% of buyers these days start their search online. They aren’t looking for prose. They want pictures. They want lots of pictures and they want those pictures to be good. If there aren’t good pictures [...]