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Opportunity? Becoming a short-term landlord during the age of COVID

How do you see the dwelling where you sleep and call home? Home or investment property — how do you see the dwelling where you sleep and call home? Many worldwide see it as a potential form of income instead of a mere mortgage payment, turning around and listing...

Homebuyers increasingly investing in green tech for their newly-built homes

Home Tips, Purchase Process

Want Greener? Go Green! Pay more to get less? That’s one way of looking at how homebuyers are looking at being willing to spend more on a house that promises to have less of an impact on the environment. According to an article in Realtor Magazine, the National...

First-time homebuyers often feel unprepared for ownership

First-time Homebuyer, Home Tips

When you think about it, those in the industry often don’t do a great job in explaining aspects of homeownership not in their purview For some it seems like a no-brainer. Renting a home feels like throwing money away, offering no sense of ownership whatsoever....

Using Instagram to draw homebuyer interest

Credit, Home Tips, Investment Property

Using Instagram to draw homebuyer interest You’re seeing it all over Facebook. Your Realtor friends are posting friendly little glimpses of a home they are trying to sell, inviting you to their next open house. But what if you are selling your house and you want...

Creative ways to use unused space in your home

Home Tips

When you bought the place, it was a blissful move up to a larger home, where all your kids had their own rooms, and there was no fighting over who got the bathroom. But what about the newly vacant nest? Just when you got the house paid off you discovered missing your...

Between a rock and a hard spot: solid surface countertops that aren’t granite