Gretchen Faber's (gfaber) Blog

School search while relocating? My kids know everything, they don’t need to learn. They certainly know way more than I do - and they won’t hesitate to point that out on a daily basis. But some people seem to want to provide an education for their offspring. How many times have we Realtors heard,...

Cheesman Park Congress, which had originally designated the acreage for burials, switched it to park land at the request of Denver officials. By 1894, graves had been relocated, burials suspended, and the area fenced, but the incipient Cheesman Park remained barren and deserted until landscape ar...

Nowhere else in Denver does the canopy of 100-year-old American elms spread quite so magnificently over tiled rooftops and broad parkways as it does in Country Club. One of city’s most cherished neighborhoods, Country Club - occasionally referred to as “Denver’s Spanish Suburb” - is also among t...

An exciting event is on tap for this Sunday, May 4th in the University Park neighborhood. The annual University Park Home Tour will include five fabulous homes as well as tours of the historic Chamberlin Observatory in lovely Observatory Park (”O Park”). The home tour begins at 11 am and ends at...

Cherry Hills Village, one of the nation’s most elegant suburbs, is also among the safest. A tranquil, rustic community of gently rolling hills, mature trees, sumptuous mansions, bridle paths, and gravel roads, Cherry Hills Village numbers among the ten wealthiest suburbs in the country. Here, it...

Real Estate buyers often ask me, “will they take less?” and “how low can I offer?” I’ve been asked if I’m a good negotiator (see ARDELL’s post on this one). They also want to know the average % of list the “typical” house in Denver sells for. Hold on, let me get out my crystal ball. Omph, it’s in...

Designed to showcase Mayor Speer’s City Beautiful program, Park Hill, located on high ground east of City Park, remains one of the most coveted neighborhoods in Denver. Shaded by stately American Elms, Park Hill’s exquisite thoroughfares: 17th Avenue, Forest, and Montview parkways, are among the...

Cherry Creek   Denver’s premier shopping enclave for several decades, Cherry Creek is the place to live, work, shop, and play. This tony neighborhood, once known as Harmon, for George Harmon who owned the 320-acre farm that originally occupied the site, offers the ultimate urban lifestyle in a lo...

I got this email today regarding an underhanded maneuver by the Colorado Trail Lawyers Association (aka Ambulance Chasers): Before you read about it in the paper, we wanted you to be aware of a new ballot initiative filed that would limit commissions for real estate brokers. It’s a sliding scale ...

I just want my lifestyle… Actions speak louder than words. I drive an SUV and live in a leaky 1938 brick Tudor. Sometimes I even take a long shower and turn up the heat. I piss myself off when I think about this because I also diligently recycle, carry my canvas shopping bags into the store whene...