Even if you’re pinching your pennies, there’s still plenty of resources and ways to make your home inviting and full of personal style. Take A Good Look Around Sometimes you don’t have to buy a thing to decorate a space. If you “shop” your own home, you may find that just moving around furniture or…
If you’ve heard it once in the last 12 months, you’ve heard it a dozen times. Denver’s real estate market is hot. Think surface-of-the-sun hot. As ever in real estate, it’s all about supply and demand. In Denver’s case, there are fewer listings, and lots and lots of buyers. According to the latest trend report…
According to popular home improvement shows, buying a rundown house, turning it into something beautiful and selling it for a huge profit is as easy as rolling paint onto a wall. But in reality, Casey Dexter explains there’s a little more to it. A successful house flipper in Denver for the past four years, Dexter…
If you plan on listing your home this spring, now’s the time to prep your home to look its best for potential buyers. But there’s a fine line to home improvements. You want your home to shine and garner top dollar, but you also don’t want to spend too much on improvements that pay few…
Susie Roy, a Realtor at RE/MAX Professionals, knows real estate. She’s been in the industry 25 years, helping clients sell and buy homes in Colorado from Aspen to Greenwood Village. But even with her successful track record and experience, Roy is a little perplexed by the current market. Even though unemployment is skyrocketing and businesses…
July’s blog features Joe Slowey, realtor and owner of JMS Property Development, Inc. Reach him with questions at slow072@yahoo.com. Joe Slowey admits that his start flipping houses didn’t go well. He bought three undervalued houses in 2000. “And then 9-11 hit,” he remembers. Twenty years and many successful flips later, Slowey counts that experience as…
Meet Diane Gordon, June’s guest contributor and owner of Diane Gordon Design. With degrees in both architecture and interior design, Diane has brought her elegant aesthetic to hundreds of residential interiors, including kitchens and baths, historic renovations and basement finishes since 2000. It seems like every major city around the U.S., including Denver, has a fresh…
Meet Mike Olson, May’s guest contributor. He is an owner and real estate agent of GO Colorado Homes of Keller Williams Advantage Realty. He was voted 2015-2018 “Best of the Best Real Estate Agent” by Colorado Community Media and voted a “Five Star Real Estate Agent” by 5280 Magazine. _ Home-selling season is upon us.…
When you sell a house, you have a fine line to walk — on the one hand, you want to make the house as appealing as possible for your buyer, and that often means fixing the place up a bit. On the other hand, any money that goes into the house before the sale may…
Making improvements to a home before you sell is a tough balance to strike. On the one hand, you want to put your best foot forward to get the best possible price for your home. On the other hand, you don’t want to spend too much money making improvements that won’t pay dividends on the…