Once you’ve purchased a home, you’ll need to hire a moving company to transport your belongings into your new house. However, hiring movers involves more than finding someone to get your belongings from point A to point B. Use these tips to help you find a reliable company that will move your possessions safely and efficiently.
On the Road Again: Holiday Driving Tips
The excitement of packing up your car and hitting the open road to see friends and family during the holidays can quickly become frustrating due to the increased traffic you may encounter. USA Today lists the day before Thanksgiving, Christmas Day, and New Year’s Eve as three of the worst travel days of the year. However, other days around these holidays, such as Black Friday and Christmas Eve, will have plenty of travelers on the highways. To help reduce the stress of a holiday road trip, follow these tips to arrive at your destination safe, sound, and full of holiday cheer.
November Residential Market Report
While the temperatures plummet and our Colorado real estate market grows colder, would you believe a really “hot” home on the east coast sold for a cool $400k? Why is that a big deal? The sale took place AFTER the interior was totally charred by a fire! (No one was hurt, thank goodness!) That is an extreme example, but it speaks volumes about the state of real estate across the United States.
The Benefits of Accepting a Cash Offer
Maximize Your Mudroom or Entryway for Fall
The fall often brings cozy decor, tasty food, and fun celebrations into your home—but it can also be a time for tracking in wet leaves, mud, and other markers of the changing weather. Keeping up with maintenance in your mudroom or entryway is of the utmost importance to prevent any potential damage to your interior.
If you don’t already have a dedicated mudroom, you can still reap the benefits of upgrading your entryway for the season ahead.
Home Purchase Costs You May Have Forgotten
When you’re purchasing a home, most of your budgeting is built around the costs directly associated with your purchase. You’re probably planning for your EMD, home inspection, some repairs, your down payment, and closing costs. However, it’s also important to think through the way your budget will change once you’ve signed on the dotted line and bought your first home or upgraded to a new one. Here’s a list of expenses to take into consideration as you prepare for the months and years following closing.
Tips for Buyers
When you're first starting to look to buy, you'll quickly pick up on a few trends happening in the local market. For example, you might notice an over abundance of properties available for sale (indicating a buyer's market), or on the flip side, you might not find very much available (indicating a seller's market).
Either way the market may be heading, there are always a couple of extra tips you'll want to note when looking at homes.
Halloween Safety: Trick-or-Treating Tips
Halloween can be one of the most exciting nights of the year—especially for kids. But in the excitement, it’s easy to lose sight of practical safety measures that we may think of every other day of the year.
Adhere to some of these trick or’ treating safety measures to ensure your Halloween night is fun and worry-free!
Carve with Care: 5 Tips for Carving Pumpkins
There’s no bigger Halloween tradition than carving the pumpkin. (Granted, kids may disagree.) Actually, this annual event goes back centuries in the US, as Americans are believed to have started carving pumpkins in the 1800s, following European tradition.
Traditions aside, though, these gourds sure tend to be messy, and they also can be a challenge to maintain. So give yourself a treat: follow the 5 tips below to make your pumpkin-carving experience easier—and enjoy the holiday to the fullest!
Ways to Improve Security in Your New Home
There’s nothing like the excitement of moving into a new home. There is a lot of promise to this fresh start, from decorating the living room to planning the first home improvement project. However, it’s essential not to overlook the importance of improving your home’s security after moving in. Use these tips to help heighten the safety of your new residence.