Doug's Blog- Northern Colorado Real Estate

As 2006 comes and goes, I can only wish the readers of this blog a blessed, fruitful and more profitable year in 2007. HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

Big game tomorrow!  The Denver Broncos play the San Francisco 49ers with the opportunity to go to the playoffs. A win and their in.  The Colorado Avalanche are on the fringe of being a good team.  The Denver Nuggets just picked up Allen Iverson and the Rockies..... let's wait and see.  The teams ...

This year (2006), I was all over the place with my marketing. My goal is to always be different and more creative than the next guy. Well, I was certainly different and creative this year but when I look back, I was trying to be all things to all people. In other words, I spread myself too thin i...

In my day to day real estate practice, I prefer to work with sellers.  It seems to me that sellers have a better sense of what they want (motivation) and what they need (net proceeds).  A buyer tends to be more flighty and even though we are in a great buyers market, most appear to be on an exped...

If you have spent any time on this blog, you may have noticed that political correctness is not my forte'. It is with great pride, a sense of tradition and faith that inspires me to wish everyone a:Merry Christmas!!!

I love the real estate business!  In fact, one of the most gratifying aspects of this business are the people I meet within the industry (i.e. clients, other agents, etc). I guess I must be a people person and look forward to the challenges of learning about people and why they do what they do (o...

As I am preparing my 2007 business plan and budget, I continue to be amazed that I am considering "throwing out" all print advertising.  Some of the magazine ads that I have placed in the past have been fruitful (at best) but the newspaper has been a total disaster.  In the past year and a half, ...

If you don't live in Northern Colorado, you may think that the weather this time of year is horrible.  Well, right now I'm looking out my office window and I see small patches of snow on the ground, at least 200 canadian geese on Lake Loveland and I can walk outside without a jacket and still be ...

Since most of the media likes to distribute or broadcast the "negative".  I thought I would mention a positive:Woodward Governor is relocating their corporate headquarters to northern colorado.  On a future post, you will see a summary of all the good news that is coming to northern colorado.  I ...

Coloradoans facing foreclosure?  Help is in the way..... STOP FORECLOSURE