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Supply Chain Issues & Inflation So now, it is housing. Think about every material needed to build a new home; lumber, dry wall, cement, nails, appliances, hardware etc. et...

Inflation Is Driving Prices Higher On Everything Home prices have been going through the roof; but so have the prices for everything else. For the first time in decades, we have raging in...

Residential Real Estate Commissions - Agents Earn Their Money In most parts of the United States, standard real estate commissions to sell a home are usually between 5 - 7%. So, when listing a home fo...

$3 Trillion In Home Equity A Record High With rising home prices, the 63% of people in the United States that own homes are sitting on about $3 Trillion in home equity. This may...

Focus On Medical Services When Choosing A Home Location Generally, people think that older people need to live near great medical services and that is true; however, all families need to live ne...

Building More Homes In The United States Owning a single family home on a little bit of ground has always been part of the American dream; however it does come at a cost. The la...

Mold Remediation Is Always Required After Major Flooding Many parts of the country have experienced flooding from hurricanes and or lots of rain. When homes are flooded and particularly in hot,...

Home Prices - A Glimmer Of Hope For Buyers While home prices in many parts of the United States are still high, they may finally be starting to stabilize. Some of this may be seas...

Home Ownership Should Be Viewed As An Investment It is often said that owning a home is someone's most important investment and for many it is true. However, for those with other invest...

Wine Is Now Very American Most Europeans drink wine as their beverage of choice for lunch and dinner. Some of the colder countries also drink beers. More and Mor...

Enjoying Time With Family & Friends Three day holidays often lead to spending time with family and friends at home. Since home is where the heart is to use an old cliché, it...

Dealing With Climate Change Like so many issues in our country, Climate Change is highly politicized which gets in the way of solving problem. The left believes that ...

Billions In Federal Money To Build Or Renovate Housing President Biden is proposing to spend billions of dollars to build new lower cost housing and or to create more rental units. The countr...

Changing Housing Needs As We Grow Older What I discovered in caring for my 87 year old mother when she moved into a senior living community was that over time, services and secur...

Beware Pocket Or Whisper Real Estate Listings Since we have a very hot real estate market in many parts of the country, in some cases real estate agents are not even putting listings o...

Preparing For A Natural Disaster If you live in an area prone to forest fires, hurricanes, tornadoes, or floods as many do, are you prepared if you need to evacuate and or b...

Real Estate Values & Public Schools 90% of children in the United States attend public schools. 10% attend private or non-government controlled charter schools. Generally,...

Understanding All The Rules That Drive Real Estate Values In every real estate class, the question is always posed, "What Are The Three Most Important Elements of Real Estate Value"? And, the an...

California Not The Golden State Any More Between 2015 and 2019, 3.3 million people have moved out of California. The go to states have been Texas, Arizona, Nevada, Washington, Ore...

State Income Taxes Drive Behaviors Studies show that high income taxes in California and New York are driving the Texas real estate market as more and more people and compan...

Consider Refinancing Your Mortgage To Lower Your Payments If you plan to remain in your current home for at least five years and your current mortgage interest rate is 1 or more percent higher tha...

US Home Prices - Buyer Beware We have seen unprecedented increases in home values and prices all over the United States primarily driven my very low mortgage interest r...

The Value Of A Full Service Real Estate Agent & Broker We often hear television commercials advertising selling your home for as little as a 2% real estate commission instead of the traditional...

Time To Deal With Forest Fires - Putting Politics Aside Many of us living in the West seem to deal with smoke every summer and fall from forest fires that happen in various Western states. It...

Government Eviction Moratorium - More The Problem Than The Solution The best of intentions of Government very often hurts the very people they are trying to help. 53% of 1 - 4 unit rental properties are own...

Choosing A Place To Live - Town, City or State Now that more people are working from home and can live anywhere and or older people are looking to move where they want to retire before ...

People Retiring To The Villages in Florida The Villages in Florida, a 55 or older master planned community about an hour Northwest of Orlando was the fastest growing city in the Unite...

Things To Consider Before Investing In A Rental Home 53% of 1 - 4 unit rental properties are owned by Mom and Pop investors. Many right now are being hammered by the government's Eviction Mor...

Selling Your Home For The Highest Price Even though real estate markets are hot in many areas and it is still a seller's market, to get the highest price possible, you need to ge...

Doing Home Renovations With Borrowed Money Since home values have gone up so much in the last year and mortgage interest rates are so low, it may make sense to borrow money to do a ho...