ARCHIVED BLOG POSTS

2011 

Tightening of Credit Still Shuts Many Buyers Out I just wrote a blog on this very topic. This is a real issue in our market today. I have had a lot of Buyers inquire but I can't seem to get them past the lender. They realize that their credit issues are holding them back from participating in suc...
08/21/2011
America’s Best Cities for Young Professionals When I saw this article I was thrilled that yet on another list of top places to live - Colorado comes up.... This time we are #7 out of 15.... Way to go COLORADO !! We are a city on the move and a great place to start your career and build your futur...
08/21/2011
Buyers want to wait for a better market? whats the OTHER reason?? Inspired by Gabrielle Kamahele Rhind's  recent blog on Buyer's lack of confidence and their reasons for wanting to wait on purchasing a home got me thinking. What has been my own recent experience with "Potential Buyers" and why co...
08/17/2011
RED FEATHER LAKES, COLORADO awaits you!! Hunters & Fisherman's paradise. Build a home less than 1 mile from National Forest. Beartrap Creek trail accessible outside your front door. Section 8 hunting !   Near Panhandle Reservoir/Crystal Lakes, stocked trout fishing ! Gently sloping land with amaz...
08/17/2011
America's Best Places to Live 2011 COLORADO RANKS AS #1 by Money EditorsMonday, August 15, 2011   provided by  With the current state of the economy — and the dispiriting sight of the nation's leaders endlessly battling about how to fix it — the phrase "small town" conjures up images of a happie...
08/15/2011
Can a Harley Rider also be a Girlie Girl Real Estate Agent?? Can a woman dressed in all leather (Chaps that is) be pegged as a agent in disguise? My first REAL  Buyers met me as I was showing a house to another rider and I was in head to toe leather ! I handed them my card and 3 days later wrote ...
08/14/2011
Tonight as I was driving home here in Loveland, Colorado there was the most beautiful sight before me. (Photo taken with my Blackberry does not do it justice).  I have lived in Colorado for over 5 years and have never seen such an amazing sight before. I just had to share. There was a bright lig...
08/14/2011
Jane Grant spells it out very clearly why a BUYER needs to be pre-approved for a home loan prior to shopping for a home... It affects everyone and BUYERS, there is nothing harder for the Sellers or your Agent to see YOU excited about a home only to find out you can not qualify for it. Do yourself...
08/14/2011
"The Green Beret" honoring our military. A true story history in the making. I realize this is a "real estate" website, but after reading a completely un-real estate related and VERY touching article by John McCarthy on letting a stranger into his house, it sparked up in me the military admiratio...
08/14/2011
John McCarthy's story reminds us of the kindness we can show each other. With so much going on in our lives everyday, the frantic pace, the mistrust we have all developed and the hardness towards our fellow man. We forgot that we are the "Human Race" and we should be kind and loving first, then g...
08/14/2011