Tips and Reminders

Sellers What’s the big deal about curb appeal? The experts tell us that in human interactions, two people meeting for the first time size one another up and form an opinion of each other in the first seven seconds. In just that short span of time, each determines if the other is a friend or a foe; someone to approach or someone to […]
Sellers Love It Before You List It The year was 1989, and I was just about to learn the meaning of the word “boom.” We’d met one afternoon with a real estate agent who advised us that if we wanted to sell our Silver Lake home, we needed to paint the living room, re-stain the deck, and put fresh bark over the […]
Tips and Reminders Happy Houseplant Appreciation Day! (Really) Is it just me, or do we have crazy holidays? January 10 really, truly is National Houseplant Appreciation Day. I'm just wondering what my houseplants would like …                       .
Buyers 5 New Year’s Resolutions for Buyers Happy 2015! As always, new years mean new resolutions. Soon, we'll see joggers in their spanking new running shoes trudging and panting along roads and trails. Registration at the YMCA will skyrocket, and for a little while, fitness center parking lots will be full of hopeful exercisers. You have to love the collective optimism that […]
Sellers Let it Show, Let it Show, Let it Show! Anyone thinking of selling their home in December inevitably wrestles with the decision. “Is it all right to go ahead and list my house now,” they ask, “or would it be wiser to wait till all the holiday madness is over?” Many real estate agents counsel their clients to wait. Their reasons are understandable; December […]
Sellers Staging Your Home For a Fall Sale I have a dear friend in Nevada who keeps almost two dozen giant bins full of fall decorations in her garage. There’s actually an entire wall of floor-to-ceiling shelves dedicated to all-things-autumn. We made a trip to see her one fall and I remember how overwhelmed I was by her delightful decorations. She has a […]
Tips and Reminders Enjoy that extra hour! Aren't you so happy about that? It always feels luxurious to have that extra hour of sleep. While you're at it (setting your clock back, that is), why not take a minute and change the batteries in your smoke detectors? 
Tips and Reminders National “Stay At Home” Day (a.k.a. New Year’s Day) I guess we've run out of free days on the calendar for weird holidays. Because as of Jan 1, 2013, New Year's Day has had to scooch over and make room for the latest wacky national observance: "Stay at Home" Day. I guess there's some logic to it. After all the shopping, cooking, eating, gathering, […]
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