Top 10 Most Desired Home Features

If you are thinking about putting your house in the market ANYTIME in the future, there are always things to consider when upgrading and renovating your home.  Of course, you want to make it YOUR home, but some choices can be made which will make your house more sellable, and they have remained fairly...

Higher Rent Rates Near Denver Light Rail

Investors often wonder what the prefect location for a rental unit is as they are looking to purchase a new income property.  They ask about neighborhoods, demographics, local amenities, proximity to universities and shopping, etc.  Another important factor to consider is access to public transportation. ...

Save Water and Money with a Rain Barrel

Why pay to pour thousands of gallons of municipally treated tap water on your lawn and garden every summer if you can irrigate for free? That’s the thinking behind the growing interest in rain barrels, which let you conserve water, protect the environment, and save money at the same time. Considering that...

Planting Seeds to Sell

This is a great article full of good links and info from MSN Real Estate, I spent like an hour browsing through it and following all of the links, so I thought it was worth sharing…enjoy…and then start planting! If you put your home on the market with the hopes the $8,000 homebuyer tax credit...

Mobile Gardening – Why didn’t I think of that?

I’ve got gardening on my mind this week, and I’m craving fresh veggies, home-grown eggs and all the yummy herbs and greens that we plant every year.  Yes, we are late for spring planting – but it’s been a busy Real Estate spring! This popped into my email this morning and I just had...

Increasing Livability Outside City Centers

Livability.  It’s something I’ve been thinking about a lot lately.  With a large family (4 kids) and the desire to give them the best possible education, recreation, and social learning opportunities, as well as the need to have a little personal space after living in a very small house, I...