If you’re selling your home, you may be pondering hosting an open house. So what exactly is an open house? The classic definition is it’s a time when sellers open their home so that numerous potential buyers can swing by and check it out—no appointment necessary. Here’s why a home seller should consider throwing an open house, [...]
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There are many potential homebuyers, and even sellers, who believe that you need at least a 20% down payment in order to buy a home, or move on to their next home. Time after time, we have dispelled this myth by showing that there are many loan programs that allow you to put down as [...]
One of the first things you’ll hear when you start considering homeownership is that you’ll need a hefty chunk of change upfront. Most financial planners recommend putting down a 20% down payment. On the current national median home price of $306,700, that comes to $61,340. And that’s serious money. But if you don’t [...]
This summer, my husband and I decided to put our 1,200-square-foot Spanish-style bungalow in San Diego up for sale. Naturally, this involved meeting with a host of real estate professionals—all of whom agreed that in order to sell our charming little home for the price we wanted, we needed to stage it. But it wasn’t [...]
We are now moving toward a more normal market for sales of homes. We are getting enough data together to predict that 2016 will be a little slower in sales than 2015 was. Of course, 2015 was the highest recorded real estate sales year ever, so real estate is still a great investment in Denver. [...]
Printers have come a long way from simply churning out reams of spreadsheets, high school history reports, and cute cat photos. In case you haven’t heard, 3-D printing is rapidly changing, well, everything. The technology is making the unimaginable real, already producing everything from simple plastic toys to edible pizza and even human tissue and body parts [...]
From the moment you walked in, the house was calling to you. That chef’s kitchen! The ballroom-size playroom! Wait a second, is that a fireplace in the master? Done and done. This is your perfect home… That is, until you recheck the price and discover it’s just a bit out of your price [...]
