“What You’re OK With If You Get It . . . . & What You’re OK With If You Don’t” One of the most fraught questions Realtors field has to do with multiple offers. Specifically, it’s stressed Buyers beseeching their agent, “What the $%#@! do I offer?” I don’t know about other Realtors, but after...Read More
Learning to Love (OK, Like) Split-Level’s What’s so great about opening the front door of a home and finding yourself standing in the middle of the Living Room? Or maybe the Kitchen? That’s been my experience in any number of newer, upper bracket homes ” homes that supposedly boast the latest and greatest of everything,...Read More
Back to the Future You’d think, in an age of online everything, that it would be easier, not harder, to do due diligence on new home builders. Especially small home builders, who may only build a handful of homes a year (vs. national giants like D.R. Horton and Pulte). Unh-unh. As recently as five years...Read More
Ground-scraping interest rates turn savers into speculators and quarantined millennials into day traders. They facilitate overborrowing, suppress market signals, misdirect investment dollars, and promote the dubious business of turning well-financed public companies into heavily indebted private ones.” –James Grant, “Powell Has Become the Fed’s Dr. Feelgood”; The Wall Street Journal 6/28/2020. Except for Jim Grant’s...Read More
Interior Decorating Tip #34 If you want to give a Living Room or Family Room a luxurious feel, you could pop for an Oriental rug costing $2,000, $5,000 ” or more. Or . . . you could spend $100 or so to get an especially thick carpet pad to put under a more modest rug...Read More
Homing Instinct Sellers frown on Buyers moving in before closing, for about 27 (valid) reasons. But, the Momma raccoon that set up housekeeping in my client’s window well hardly asked anyone’s permission. And since my clients moved out-of-town well before closing, it fell to the Buyer ” and specifically, their pre-closing walk-thru inspection ” to...Read More
