Green Residential
When your home has been on the market for more than a few months, it’s apt to become ever more difficult to sell it at a decent price. You lose negotiating power and buyers turn cool as newer residences enter the market.
At this point, it’s best to seek out the potential problem and rectify it. In most cases, you’ve simply listed it for too much. Updates need to be made but haven’t…. [Read More]
As a landlord, you have a great deal of control over your expenses and rental prices. Obviously, you’ll want to make decisions that maximize your potential profit and income stream, but not all decisions are so straightforward. For example, in most areas, landlords will have a choice of whether to pay for utilities out-of-pocket (and build utility costs into the rent at a fixed price), or whether to charge less rent and have the tenants take care of the utility costs…. [Read More]
While we all love to watch those HGTV shows with starry-eyed couples bashing through walls and ripping out dated appliances in order to breathe new life into horrendous-looking homes, the infatuation with home remodels stops there for most of us. We’d rather not deal with the time, money, and mess that a remodel requires. But there’s a time and a place for updating an outdated home, even when the cameras aren’t rolling…. [Read More]