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Happy Friday! Real estate humor

Happy Friday! Have a wonderful, warm and safe weekend.  🙂 If your plans include looking at Boulder Colorado real estate, have fun and good luck!                  

Boulder Real Estate Market Statistics

December statistics (compiled by the MLS) have not yet been released, but here is what I do know: Detached Boulder Real Estate – Average Days on Market in 2014 through November  = 71 This is very similar to last year and I expect that not to change much, if at all in December. Listings were …

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Vacation Reminders – Property Management

Vacation Reminders for Home Owners, Renters and Property Management Companies Fire Safety: Holiday lights should be unplugged while away. Christmas trees that quickly dehydrate and become that standing mass of dry pine needles could also become fuel for a fire. Remind your tenants they can compost the tree before Christmas vacation. Personally, I unplug all …

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Colorado landlord… What’s in your lease?

Colorado landlord beware The next time a tenant calls and asks if they can paint a room in your property, think twice. Yes, the room needs painting and yes, it seems like they might be doing you a favor – free labor and they pay for the paint too, but  are they really doing you …

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Boulder Affordable Senior Housing and Senior Services

Boulder Affordable SENIOR Housing June 24th, 2014 marked the grand opening of High Mar. Boulder’s first affordable senior housing in 32 years. High Mar is a brand new development of 59 one and two bedroom condos in a 3 story high, elevator-serviced building. It is located just opposite the High Mar post office on Moorhead …

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Boulder real estate listing photos and descriptive language

A BOULDER real estate listing is not that hard to sell! But a client deserves their Realtor’s best effort even in a good market. I will hold my tongue about whether I think this Boulder real estate listing would be better off without this image entirely, but I will say that if you are going …

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Boulder CO Listings and Syndication (Zillow, Realtor.com etc)

Boulder CO Listings and Syndication – Wait… Let me get on my soap box! What is listing syndication? Let’s start from the beginning. A Boulder CO Realtor attends a listing consultation with a Seller. That seller agrees they would like the Agent to represent the property.  To value it, market it and do their darnedest …

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Boulder CO real estate issues – Dandelions!

Boulder CO real estate is valuable, beautiful and fun… But not immune to issues. The problem with dandelions… A man who took great pride in his lawn found himself with a large crop of dandelions. He tried every method he knew to get rid of them. Still they plagued him.  Finally he wrote to the Department …

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Home Improvement – Be careful who you hire!

Home Improvement Gone Awry! So there you are, the proud new owner of a new house.  It has taken a boatload of your money and for the first couple of years, it will be a stretch financially, but worth it.  You know its a good investment – but only if you take care of it, …

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For Sale By Owner – Err… For Sale By Neighbor!?

“For Sale By Neighbor”…Not For Sale By Owner Not entirely unlike For Sale by Owner, except for the questionable right to sell at all! There are days when I wish I was not so “connected”. Days I wonder what it would be like if I let the phone just ring or had never developed that …

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