Back in 2009, we ran the first post entitled, Home Maintenance Costs: https://www.bubbleinfo.com/2009/09/17/home-maintenance-costs/ After discussing the need for home maintenance with several clients recently, I thought it would be a great time to review. Every condo...
Every house needs house numbers. But not every house has to have boring house numbers. They’re easy to change and can make a place feel fresh and new when you find just the right ones....
We got the lowdown on the HERO program; here is more on solar leases: http://journal.firsttuesday.us/solar-woes-loom-for-homeowners-as-tax-credits-sizzle-away/51248/ An excerpt: Net metering is an agreement between the utility company and the residential or commercial...
Use this one simple gauge to know if the house you are considering could be a money pit.
The Pacific Beach hillside remodel is complete. Here are a few photos of the journey, and a recent video tour: Mr. Buyer delivered what might be the best quote of the year: "I finally buy my wife a million-dollar house, and the first thing she does is tear it...
Some buyers get moving too fast and blow out, and others make offers willy-nilly and cancel for little or no reason. Those happen - but the deals that cancel because of repairs can almost always be saved in the moment if the buyer's agent says the right things, the...
Our second installment in the staging series: http://www.zillow.com/homedetails/3056-Via-Mariposa-Carlsbad-CA-92009/16677360_zpid/
Here are 20 more: http://lightersideofrealestate.com/real-estate-humor/fail/21-baffling-home-design-fails
The market isn't high-flying enough to call it a frenzy - and buyers are passing on anything that looks like a project. Doing improvements before going on the market is the best way to go:
Have you wondered what to do with those hand-scraped distressed hardwood floors once they get old and weathered? Here's an initial consultation and assessment by Andrew Appleby of http://allamericanhardwoods.com/ - we'll come back for a look at the end! Hat tip B.C.
