How to Buy a Home Buying a home, spending more in one purchase than you make in years…seems a little daunting maybe. Maybe a little too adult-ish…a little too commitment embracing for some. But, bottom line is…it is the SMART thing to do as rents keep skyrocketing. Why pay someone else’s mortgage? Might as well […]
For Buyers
Buyer BEWARE of the FLIP!
First, let’s define a flip. A flip is a house that is purchased by an investor to update and resell at a profit. The investor is therefore, a business person, doing a job, to make money. The investor must assume all risk and pay all costs involved in purchasing the property, holding the property, updating […]
10 Ways Home Shopping is like Online DATING
So much of our lives are online nowadays. Our clubs aren’t held in basements or bars, they are online. We meet people with similar interests by joining groups in Facebook or following someone’s story on Snapchat. YouTube is how we learn to do almost everything….girls learn to do their hair and make up from YouTube […]
Buyers are liars!
“Buyers are liars” is one of first things I heard when I started to sell real estate. At this point I certainly had my rose colored glasses on, and didn’t understand what agents meant by that. As I near my 15th anniversary in this career…my glasses are no longer rose colored, but I think I […]
How long will your kids live with YOU?
Twenty eight years ago this month, I moved to Arizona. I graduated from high school in June, 1988, at 17 years old. I started ASU as a freshman that fall…still only 17 years old. Do you know I never moved back in full time with my parents? I think the fact that they lived, and […]
Trust your Gut
What home should you buy? How do you know what house you should buy? What area should you buy in, does it matter? When you are spending (most likely) the MOST money you have ever spent …how do you know if you are making the right choice? Do you get paralyzed with insecurity? Do […]
3 Reasons Renting Sucks…that you might not have considered
I bought my first home when I was 27. When we signed the contract I was fighting waves of nausea. Not from anxiety, but as I found out later that day…I was pregnant with my first. When I was 38 I had to rent a house to live in. My husband and I were splitting, […]
Why Gen X Moms are the BEST Real Estate Agents
An agent in California is all over social media for real estate agents as The Broke Agent. Lots of his stuff is hilarious to me, as an agent. He recently posted this blog about Five Reasons to Work with Millennial Agents. The very first blog I ever wrote was about why agents get better with […]