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Winter is fast approaching; don’t forget to prep your home for the winter. Here are tips to get your home ready for the cold season. Test your furnace – Before you absolutely need it, test and inspect your furnace to make sure everything is functioning properly. While you’re at it, change your furnace filter too.  Read More

After you’ve decided it’s time to buy a home, your next step in the home buying process is choosing a buyer’s agent to work with. What questions should you ask when hiring a real estate agent to know if they are right for you? How long have you been practicing and working in real estate? Read More

A couple weeks ago, we wrote a step by step guide to home buying, and step one is making the decision to buy. So, you’ve been thinking about buying a home, but aren’t quite sure if you’re ready. It’s a big decision, and now is an amazing time to buy. Prices are still low, the Read More

In the last several years, radon testing has become a bit more common when buying or selling a home. I am far from a radon expert, but I often get drilled with questions about radon from buyers or sellers. Here’s what I know… Radon is a radioactive, colorless, odorless, and tasteless gas that forms from Read More

This is our 100th post! In the short time we’ve been blogging, we’ve seen our readership numbers drastically increasing and we are approaching our 10,000th view. Thank you to all of our readers for paying attention to what we have to express. We hope you are enjoying our information on real estate, finances, investments, and Read More

Consumers sometimes attempt to avoid working with a specific real estate agent until they are ready to write an offer. This is potentially dangerous and could put you and your agent in the middle of a commission dispute. You see, in the industry there is this thing called “procuring cause”, which means, who really caused Read More

I recently listened to a real estate agent training podcast that said this: “Fear is the biggest motivator in the world…  Go out and buy yourself a brand new BMW, a 7 series, and then find out how much fear you have when you’ve got to make that $1000-$1200 payment. Put yourself in a mode Read More

With unbelievably low interest rates lots of people are considering refinancing. Refinancing is a great way to reduce your monthly expenses and minimize the amount of interest you pay over the long term. So, how do you determine refinancing makes sense for you? First, figure out what the interest rate is on your current mortgage, Read More

This was the question in our Ask A Pro segment of the Verona Press this week, but I thought I would expand on our response. The Appraised Value of a property is a valuation conducted by a certified independent professional who visits a property and compares it to similar recently sold houses in the area. The appraiser will make adjustments to Read More

When I wrote about building our home, I mentioned we were finishing the closets ourselves. The reason for this was to save some money and to make a better organized space. We didn’t want the standard builder shelf and rod, but we also didn’t want to pay thousands for a custom closet system. Believe it Read More