Expert Advice from Amy & Kyle Bergquist at Keller Williams Legacy Partners
These are fuses for the electrical system of a house. Most homes that you see these days have been updated to circuit breakers, so finding fuse boxes becomes less common each year. It’s okay to want to buy a house that has fuses, but you should plan for them to be upgraded. Perhaps you’ll be able to convince the seller to deal with them before the closing. That’s unfortunately not always possible though, so just
The 2012 Hartford County single-family real estate market finished the year strongly. Which really wasn’t a surprise since it had consistently shown an increase in activity throughout the year. The final count shows that the number of contracts for December was up about 10% over the previous December. This wasn’t as much market growth as we had seen in past months, but the strangeness that occurred at the end of 2011 makes the year-over-year comparisons
Two previous articles about the Historic Homes Rehabilitation Tax Credit have generated a number of questions. We have gathered the most common and reached out to an expert to get the best answers possible. Hopefully this will point you in the right direction if this program is relevant to you… What is the Historic Homes Rehabilitation Tax Credit? We’ve written two versions of the overview. The first was in 2011 and focused on the nuts
Every now and then you come across a house where the neighbors are complete animals. This fella startled me with his braying as I stood a few yards away from the barn trying to see the roof of the nearby house. I had initially thought barn was part of the property, but the seller provided a plot plan showing that the animals were on a neighboring parcel. Certainly something to factor into a bid…
They just don’t make columns like they used to. These two pictures were taken at the same home that was built in the mid-1800s. The first one was on the front porch. Modern columns are usually hollow with either wooden barrel construction or built entirely with fiberglass. This one is more like a solid post that has some ornamentation. The second column was in the basement, and appears to be a humble tree trunk that