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How do I find a trustworthy wonderful petsitter to stay at my house while I go away for the weekend? I get this question just about weekly from my clients! If you’re looking for someone to check in on your house and bring in the mail, or go all the way to living at your [...]

Price right, that is price the property to sell.  There is no more "well, let’s just see if we can get the sky, the sun, the moon AND the stars for this property!"  Buyers are back; they’re coming off the sidelines.  But they’ve got nearly 10,000 properties in the inventory, and they’re going to be [...]

Sick of those bundles of credit card applications in your mailbox? Get rid of them:  www.creditsourceonline.com/optout.html  And they’re dangerous… falling into the wrong hands, discarded without shredding… most frequent method of identity theft is those very applications that stuff your box every day!  You’ve probably done this one already, but if not:  www.donotcall.gov to stop [...]

  How did this home sell in 10 days in this "cooled" market? I’ll tell you.  The seller took my advice and finished the home, rather than letting an investor have it to finish.  Fear was put aside, he pressed through, and it rewarded him with $45,000 more net than he’d have earned by "dumping" [...]

What does "Neighborhood Specialist" mean?  I have sold all three of these homes.  And I live in one of them.  Guess which one?  This is Historic Feldman’s neighborhood, just north of Speedway at 4th Avenue.  It’s a fabulous concentration of 20′s, 30′s and 40′s bungalows, walkable to the hip 4th Ave shopping district and to [...]

What is Staging?
Think of a director, carefully selecting just the right pieces of furniture, just the right lighting… for an effect.