Aug 27, 2018 | Ask the Expert, eNewsletter
BOULDER – Inspections can make or break a sale for both sellers and buyers. For this reason, the inspection process can be somewhat terrifying weather you are buying or selling. For sellers, it’s a reminder of issues you might have been ignoring over the years. And...
Aug 27, 2018 | eNewsletter, Lawn & Garden
LONGMONT – My neighborhood is filled with curious people, folks who pull out lawn chairs to watch the goings-on in my yard or devise reasons to stroll by for a closer view. I don’t blame them; things at my place are usually on the edge of chaos, what with me...
Aug 27, 2018 | eNewsletter, Featured, New Home Communities
LONGMONT – When the Groszs decided 18 months ago to downsize their home, they resolved to go low-maintenance – to trade weeding for international travel, snow shoveling for RV trips around the United States and raking leaves for concerts and lectures in Boulder. A...
Aug 27, 2018 | Buying, eNewsletter, Featured, Loveland Real Estate News, New Home Communities, Real Estate
FORT COLLINS – Celebrating 33 years as a custom home builder is a tremendous achievement in a time where every market downturn can drive more and more small builders out of business. It’s an achievement of which Doug Buer, founder and President of Buer Homes, is...
Aug 17, 2018 | eNewsletter, News, Real Estate
With its priority of delighting home buyers and sellers and the real estate agents who serve them, Equity Colorado-Front Range will be moving from Niwot to Longmont. According to Managing Broker Nancy Umbreit, “I bought an older (1905) commercial house in Longmont, at...
Aug 13, 2018 | eNewsletter, Lawn & Garden
LONGMONT – The zucchinis are booming, beans are coming in like there’s no tomorrow, the first pumpkins of the season are sizing up and onions are bulbing. With sweet potato vines rambling and fall crops nosing up out of the ground, you’d think I’d be a content...
Aug 13, 2018 | Buying, eNewsletter, Real Estate
BOULDER – Every August, in college towns across America, college students start to return for the fall semester. This always creates a frenzy of real estate activity. The rental market is usually pretty tight in any college town. Because of that, many families...
Aug 13, 2018 | Buying, eNewsletter, First-Time Homebuyer, Real Estate
Q: We have been having trouble finding our dream home. The few homes we have seen have been snatched up before we could even make up our mind, or the seller has shot us down. We want the perfect home for our family, but don’t know what to do! – Amelia and Kelly A:...
Aug 13, 2018 | eNewsletter, Real Estate, Selling
LOVELAND – Odors can be an uncomfortable topic, but it’s a necessary one when it comes to selling your home. Certain odors can give potential buyers a negative impression or even scare them away entirely. Thus, it’s critical that you address these odors before listing...
Aug 13, 2018 | eNewsletter, Real Estate, Renting
DENVER – Airbnb has become extremely popular across the nation. “However, many homeowners do not understand how to turn their home into an Airbnb,” said Broker Associate Sarah Clark, of Kentwood City Properties, who Airbnbs her personal residence as well as a home in...
Aug 13, 2018 | eNewsletter, Home
BOULDER – Here’s a “creature comfort” that keeps your home and the family pup clean while adding that something extra home buyers love: a dog wash. Having a dog wash in your home is becoming as common place as a powder room or upstairs laundry. Homebuyers find value...
Aug 10, 2018 | eNewsletter, Featured, New Home Communities
BOULDER – Backed up against the rolling pastures, each of the Dakota Flats condominiums features a 200-square-foot deck with mountain views. “The small scale of the project, just 16 units, makes it easy to get to know your neighbors,” says RE/MAX of Boulder agent John...
Aug 6, 2018 | eNewsletter, Featured, New Home Communities
BERTHOUD – One of the most luxurious of luxury neighborhoods is now available in Northern Colorado. This summer the master-planned Heron Lakes Golf Community debuted Colorado’s only Tournament Players Club (TPC) 18-hole championship golf course and community,...
Aug 6, 2018 | eNewsletter, News, Real Estate
BOULDER – Market demand continues to be strong for Boulder County residential real estate with continued improvements for June sales compared to May. “Sales were strong through June. It’s a lively market, but certainly not overheated,” says Ken Hotard, senior vice...
Aug 6, 2018 | eNewsletter, News, Real Estate
LONGMONT – ERA Tradewind Real Estate is pleased to welcome Yvonne Toscano to its team of professionals. Yvonne was born in New York and focused on residential real estate sales and marketing since the mid-1990s in Florida until she relocated to Colorado. Her mission...
Aug 6, 2018 | Buying, eNewsletter, Real Estate, Selling
LOVELAND – Moving is always a hectic and crazy time in your life. It’s understandably easy to miss an important task, especially when you are also coordinating a simultaneous home sale and home purchase. Here’s a list of common home moving mistakes that you should...
Aug 6, 2018 | eNewsletter, News, Real Estate
BOULDER – In 2000, Colorado voters approved a property tax exemption for qualified seniors (also known as the Senior Homestead Exemption) as a state constitutional amendment. The Colorado legislature makes a determination each year to see if the state budget allows...
Aug 6, 2018 | Colorado State University Extension, eNewsletter, Lawn & Garden
LONGMONT – Gardeners, the day we’ve been waiting for all summer has finally arrived: National Sneak Some Zucchini Onto Your Neighbor’s Porch Day. Yes, folks, Wednesday, Aug. 8 the green, cylindrical squash becomes the talk of the town as it’s placed, anonymously, onto...
Aug 3, 2018 | eNewsletter, Lawn & Garden
LONGMONT – As the heat continues this summer, it’s important to understand how much water your lawn actually needs, how much water you are applying and when is the best time to water. The Rocky Mountain Sod Growers are the experts in the field and want people to...
Jul 30, 2018 | eNewsletter, Real Estate, Selling
BOULDER – Colorado has over 300 days of sunshine a year, which makes adding an outdoor living space to your home one of the easiest ways to spend more time in nature. It’s also one of the easiest ways to increase your property value if and when you decide to sell....
Jul 30, 2018 | eNewsletter, Real Estate
LOVELAND – The most important benefit to owning a home is equity. It is essentially a savings account that you can later tap into. Equity is how you build wealth with real estate investments, thus the goal is to grow and maximize it. When you purchase a home, there...
Jul 30, 2018 | eNewsletter, Mortgage, Real Estate
BOULDER – As everyone in the world of home buying knows, interest rates go up and down. The Federal Reserve raises these rates to help keep inflation from growing out of control. Inflation is determined by how fast the cost of a good or product rises; it varies by...
Jul 30, 2018 | Buying, eNewsletter, Real Estate
BOULDER – Self-taught San Diego architect Cliff May is often credited with inventing the ranch-style home in the 1930s – a well-deserved acknowledgement, as it was his design that introduced the ranch to the U.S. masses. So just how did the single-story sensation come...
Jul 30, 2018 | At Home, eNewsletter, News, Real Estate
LONGMONT – ERA Tradewind Real Estate welcomes Heather Bennett to its team of professionals. Heather moved to Longmont in 2009 with her husband and two children. She has a wide range of past experience in both the large corporation and higher education environments...
Jul 30, 2018 | eNewsletter, Mortgage, Real Estate
Not knowing your mortgage rate can be an expensive mistake, especially in this rising interest rate market. Yet nearly 3 in 10 mortgage holders (29 percent) either didn’t know their mortgage rate or wouldn’t say, according to a survey by Bankrate. This is...
