Most people have a favorite house style. Ranches, capes, colonials, contemporaries, bungalows, split levels, tudors, farm houses, raised ranches, victorians- and a few others I’m surely forgetting. There is a house type for everyone and each of these styles have unique layouts and design features. When we work with buyers sometimes they are familiar with house styles and sometimes they are not. For example, we often find that buyers don’t realize that capes usually have
Last week I wrote a post about trying to refinance our house. We’re well underway at this point and hope to close in the next 45 days or so, as long as everything goes as planned. All four lenders that I initially called responded quickly to the voicemails I left them. Three were brokers that have several banks available to them and one was a local credit union. They all said that they’re getting lots
The other day Kyle wrote a post about how low mortgage rates are right now. We’ve been kicking around the idea of refinancing for a while, and at this point think we’d like to move forward. This is an opportunity to lower our rate significantly. The big questions: 1. Is it worth it – how much of an impact will a lower rates have? For us, the attraction is paying less interest over the life
Many people are using social media these days. Facebook, Twitter, Foursquare and many others that aren’t even on my radar. These applications are great for staying in touch with people near and far, people that you know personally and even some that you don’t but have found because of common interests. Depending on your online habits, you may use the applications differently. Some people feel the need to update others on every aspect of their
Rick Green posted a link to this nifty little study recently released by the Pew Research Center. For those of you that don’t want to read the study, the gist of it was that only 43% of American adults know “all” or “most” of their neighbors by name. Twenty nine percent know “some” of their neighbors and surprisingly (to me) 28% claimed they knew “none” of their neighbors. Really, how is it possible that more