Home Ownership

National Home Prices Continue To Rise

National home prices While everywhere is experiencing rising prices, the mountains states are downright booming and Colorado is leading the way. Year over year, the only state that has appreciated more than Colorado is Nevada. Clients and friends often ask me if the Boulder-Denver area is different from the rest of Colorado or the nation. I …

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4271 Milliken Ct BOULDER CO: New Listing!

4271 Milliken Ct BOULDER 80303 – For Sale   Fall in love with 4271 Milliken Ct on St Valentine’s Day!    4271 Milliken Ct could be your match made in heaven, if what you are looking for is: A 4 bedroom, 2 bath home with over 2000 finished square feet Large .25 acre lot that is …

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The Colorado Home Buying Process – Real Estate Closing!

 Real Estate Closing Day The home buying process thus far has been a series of dances to get you closer to the real estate closing. Buyer and Lender. Buyers Agent and Sellers Agent. Title Company and both Agents. Insurance Broker and Lender. And of course Agent and Buyer/Seller. At the end of each song, we …

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Colorado Mortgage Process

Getting Pre-qualified for a Colorado Mortgage LONG before you have an accepted Conract to Buy, you (the buyer) have talked to a lender or lenders and started the Colorado mortgage process by becoming pre-qualified.  It’s a quick and relatively painless process whereby you give the lender permission to pull your credit history and some basic info …

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CO Home Inspection

CO Home Inspection Giggles and Gotcha’s Once under contract to buy your new property, the buyer has a couple of really important pieces of homework to do in the first week or so. Get the EM deposited with the listing agent or title company Work with the lender to get him/her all the documentation they …

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First Time Home Buyer Listen Up!

First Time Home Buyers Info You Can Use New Year has come and gone. Remember 3 weeks ago when you added “buy a house” or “buy a condo” to your list of resolutions? Well unlike many of our resolutions (lose 10 lb, vacation in Mexico, learn to …. something) this resolution will take a while. …

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Real Estate ABC’s – Cute and Educational!

Real Estate Education I came upon this Real Estate related video today and wondered if you’d get as big a kick out of it as I did… And if you are laughing at X is for X-ray and thinking “that had nothing to do with buying real estate” then you’d be wrong. As your Buyers …

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Real Estate Mortgage Rates – Info for Buyers and Sellers

Buyers and Sellers should BOTH be curious about Real Estate Mortgage Rates 2015 was a great year for low real estate mortgage rates but as you and I both know, it’s not going to last and 2016 will bring incremental increases that directly affect real estate buyers and indirectly affect real estate sellers. It will …

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Showing houses: Get key from lockbox and ur-ine!

Showing houses: The easiest part of the buying process and the hardest part of the selling process As a Realtor, one of the first jobs I have after interviewing for a listing agent job is to give guidance to the seller about getting the property into good showing condition. I won’t be back for pictures …

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Is the neighbors house a Boulder Rental Property?

Owner Occupied or Boulder Rental Property? I’d be lying if I said I had never looked at the neighboring houses of a property I was showing and speculated as to which ones might be owner occupied and which ones were rented. I am guilty of guessing that those homes with well maintained landscaping and a …

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