Denver Real Estate Blog

I end up making most of the showing appointments on the weekend. Usually, I get the same instructions from the listing office. Remove shoes, leave a card, make sure the doors are locked, yadda, yadda, yadda. Today I heard a new one. Very low tech. Very effective. Maybe some of you have heard this...

Kristal said it is best to be:The first loverThe second wifeThe third listing agent.I can add a 4th position. Denver has dropped from first in the nation on foreclosures to 4th.  This is certainly a case where 1st was not an enviable position.  4th is still about 50 places to high.Here is Realty ...

Here is a resent report profiling the richness of the Denver's Sloan's Lake community.  This is wonderful information for anyone looking to move into a neighborhood that for all it offers is probably under valued.  Especially when compared to neighborhoods that have been "hot" for years, such as ...

The Colorado foreclosure rate, which is often ranked the highest on thecountry, is ever-increasing although this isn't always bad news for Denver homebuyers.  Homebuyers that have been "fence sitting" should consider taking full advantage of the effects of the more than 9,500 foreclosures that we...

I have a Mexican housekeeper that I know is illegal.  So is her husband.  A few months ago he lost his job with a landscaping company because they were afraid of having an illegal on their pay rolls.  During that period, he helped his wife clean houses.  After a couple of months, the landscaping ...

  Two sets of back-to-back out of town buyers.  Gotta love it - until all of the feed back responsibilities.  I have been answering as they come in by email, tomorrow the phone will be ringing off the wall for feed back information.  We leave a feed back card after every showing.  On the card we ...

It seems, with the market slowing throughout the country, we start looking for every possible means of helping our home owners.  Have any of you considered or tried Feng Sui?  The theory behind Feng Sui is that a life force flows through all things, buildings, rivers, power lines and people.  The...

In addition to keeping your car clean inside and out and the tank filled prior to meeting your clients, what do you keep in the car to make your guests comfortable?   I drive a Jeep Grand Cherokee and cannot imagine driving anything else on Colorado's sometimes slippery highways.  The traction is...

I'll never forget the end of my real estate course and sitting in a real estate class on Main Street in Danbury Ct.  The instructor said that out of the class of 30, in one year only 50% would be actively engaged in selling real estate, in two years it would be down to five real estate agents and...

A couple of years ago we picked up a listing that had been on the market for two years and we were Realtor number three!!  The homeowners were living in Georgia and had been nearly the whole time the home had been listed.  They have three children and mortgages on two homes.  They were desperate!...