We recently purchased and installed the Vent Racing Four Seat Cage for our Polaris RZRs so we could all ride together as a family. The Polariz RZRs was a fairly easy choice for us because of the wider stance, superior suspension and we knew we were going to convert it to a four seater right away. Although we also ride dirt bikes, the differences in speed and ability was becoming a problem for group rides. By picking up the RZRs and making it a four seater that all of us could comfortably sit it, we solved the problem.
After getting and installing the cage from Vent Racing, one of the very next things we felt we needed was a soft top to keep the sun, rain and debris that gets kicked up from the wheels off of us when we were riding. Since we were planning a Labor Day trip to the San Rafael area in UT it was the perfect excuse to order the soft top for the trip.
The first thing we noticed when we got the Soft Top was how heavy the material was, it is a really heavy duty canvas. It comes with hook and loop fasteners and velcro areas to secure it to the four seat cage. It is definately a custom fit for the cage. We had to make a couple modifications to our top due to having a full factory Polaris windshield installed but all it took was a little cutting and sowing by the wife to make it perfect for our use.
The top installed very easily, about 5 minutes with two people putting it on. In fact, you could easily take it on and off depending on how you wanted to ride that day. Once we put it on though, the kids and us really noticed a huge difference in the amount of wind turbulence. It even helped get ride of that little counter rotating vortex that swirls right between the driver and passenger seats. We are pretty much planning on leaving it on all that time now. The other big benefit was with mud and small stones kicked up from the wheels. The soft top offered a lot more protection for the kids in the back seat.
Overall, I can't believe we waited to get the top, I wouldn't want to ride without in sun, sand, mud or even anu dusty conditions. So, for what it's worth, I would definately get the soft top along with the four seat cage from Vent Racing for the RZR.
According to the leading third party showing service
here are some numbers for the Boulder Condos for sale during the month of
August. I was researching this info for a potential client listing and
thought others may find it useful as well.
Here are the statistics for
August for the 80301 zip code in Boulder.
Average number of showings per
week by price range:
$180k to $200k average 5.8 per week
$200k to $220k average 3.4 per week
For the entire
Boulder condo real estate market in August the average DOM (Days on market) was
56 for condos. There were 15 condos sold at an average price of $231,802.
This represented 97% of list price.
If we analyze this data bit,
we see that, properly priced to sell, a condo should take 8 weeks to sell and
have an acceptable offer submitted within the first 15 -20 showings (assuming
30-45 days to close). This is just part of the data I use to see if the
marketing of a property is 'on track'. But it does provide some useful
overall information.
Please note, this information can be gathered for
almost any residential property in the Denver metro area and should be used
along with agent showing feedback data and web analytics to ensure that your
property is being marketed correctly.
Stuart Dobson
Bachelors of Science in Finance; Real Estate
Certified International Property Specialist (CIPS)
This townhome is FHA loanable (based upon owners vs. rentals percentage in the complex) with a very low $125 monthly HOA fee and a financially sound HOA.
Outside features include a small fenced area in back - great for coffee and reading the paper and a well treed and shaded courtyard area between the units. Also, the townhome has a new back door and back screen door as well as a screen door for the front.
The interior has Oak 3" plank flooring on throughout first floor with a floor to ceiling brick wall on one side of interior of unit, offset with Oak crown molding and trim. All ceiling fans and the refrigerator stay with the home. Additionally the home has been upgraded with six panel white doors and the furnace and air conditioner unit are less than one year old with transferable warranties, plus newer double pane vinyl windows cut energy bills and reduce noise.
The upstairs has a space for a full size washer and dryer (NOT stackable) in the upstairs laundry area. Finally a large large crawlspace is great for storage
Garage
The garage is heated and has checkerboard racedeck flooring, an insulated garage door, and a garage door opener. The unit also has 2 additional parking spaces allocated to the townhome.
The City of Arvada has a hometown feel many of its citizens have cherished even through a century of change. With a rich historical culture and shared community pride, Arvada combines the luxury of todays society with the benefits of the past. Peaceful neighborhoods of homes, an eclectic business mix, and historical landmark restoration keep this metro area active, vibrant and healthy. The business and residential real estate opportunities are excellent.
Arvada is only a few miles west of Denver, close to Denver International Airport (DIA), the Downtown Denver business district, and the mountains. It is easily accessible from three interstate highways: I-70, I-76 and I-25. To search for other Arvada Colorado Homes for Sale.
The Denver
Commercial Retail space market forecast for 2010 and
beyond does not look very good.
According to CB Richard Ellis, the
demise of Circuit City and Linens n things has left over 50 big box retail
spaces vacant. Cyberhomes Denver Commercial Market forecast takes a look
at both office and retail space in September, 2009 and finds the outlook for
sales and leasing to be very slow. To make matters worse, there is 1.2
million square feet of commercial retail space currently under
construction.
Current CoStar
statistics
However, according to CoStar analysis of the
Denver retail market there is, as of September, 2009, 133
million square feet of retail space in the Denver area with 12.9 million vacant
and 15.7 million square feet becoming available. This implies a vacancy
rate of 10% currently with a soon to be available vacancy rate of 12%.
Yet, the forecast from CoStar is for a 2011 vacancy rate dropping to 9.5%.
Considering that the net absorption rate is currently zero, there will have to
be a significant recovery in demand to fill that much space and that is not even
accounting for the 1.2 million square feet that is under construction.
One Commercial Broker Opinion
I find it
difficult to believe the rosy forecast coming from
CoStar, unless landlords suddenly drop their asking lease rates
dramatically. Many of these vacant retail properties will become REO's or
go into default and be sold (or have their notes sold by the banks). These
distressed properties will certainly create a downward pressure on lease rates
and property sales prices going forward. As always marketing an REO property is more important than the pricing
of the property. We are not saying that lease rates and price points are
unimportant, simply that pricing is secondary to marketing. Currently the
average lease rate in the Metro Denver area for commercial
retail space is $16.5 dollars NNN, with a low of $5 and a high or
$55.69.
Real Estate Sales
Techniques - Marketing vs. Price
Most real
estate agents will always tell a client that price is the
determinate factor for selling a property.
This is not true!Real Estate Marketing is the most important
factor, with price being
secondary.
Allow me to explain:
Let's say
you have a house for sale that is fairly priced for the market
at $400,000. If the sellers were willing to accept
an offer of $1 for the house for a time period of one
hour, but you couldn't advertise it, market it in any way, or tell
anyone about the house for sale. In fact the only way it could be sold for
that price was if a person happen to knock on the sellers front door and offered
them $1 for the house, during the specified one hour time frame.
The other option;
The house is listed for $1
million dollars, but every single person in the world
knows about it. It is plastered on every car, bus bench, billboard and
road sign in the world. People washing laudry in the rivers in Asia are
talking about this house. With that type of exposure, there just may be
some exorbitantly weatlhy and eccentric individual who, despite knowing the fair
value of $400,000, wants to own the most expensive house in that neighborhood,
or perhaps they want to own the most advertised house in the world,
whatever....
The point is that without any
marketing, price is irrelevant, because no one
will ever know that the property is for sale. On the other hand, if a
property is overpriced, it may be the one in a billion chance that it
sells!
Obviously, both of the above scenarios are ridiculous. But
the point is that marketing is more important than
price. Our job as professional, educated, and
talented real estate agents, is to market the house better than the seller can,
better than our competition can, and attract a price that is more toward the
high end of the reasonably possible range of prices that the house will sell for
in the quickest time possible.
Negotiating Real
Estate Deals - Aggressive vs. Assertive
Many
times I get asked by potential clients how aggressive I am in negotiating for
their interests in real estate transactions. I always have the same
answer, I try NOT to be aggressive, but rather assertive.
The
Difference between Assertive and Aggressive
My definition of
aggressive negotiation is always 'winning' at
any cost. It's not really negotiation as such, it's more
using every tactic, avenue, and technique to get your way and burning any bridge
you need to at the time without consideration of the future.
Assertive negotiation may not always win every
point of contention or issue, but when the issue is resolved, it is something
that both parties can live with.
The advantage of
assertive over aggressive techniques is that it is not
the 'hard sell'. For example, let's say you have a minor
inspection issue that you agressively negotiate for the buyers to the
point where, as the buyer's agent, you make the seller bleed
every last dollar. Not only are the sellers going to be upset that they
got pushed so hard, but they will be looking for every opportunity to
repay the favor. An opportunity may easily arise
at the closing table, let's say a delay in funding from the lender thru no fault
of the buyer. The seller could technically declare a default and take the
earnest money as the seller may have no incentive left to keep the contract or
sell the house at the terms that were aggressively
pursued by the buyer's agent.
Should this scenario happen,
the buyers didn't win, even though they got the last $10 from the sellers over
some minor inspection issue.
Keeping the ultimate negotiating
goal in mind
It is always important that the agent and client
keep their ultimate goal in mind when entering into any negotiations.
Winning at negotiation involves keeping the ultimate goal in mind, not trying to
win every point just for the sake of winning.
We recently picked up a 2009 Polaris RZR S after looking at side by sides for over a year. I was pretty well set on a Kawasaki Teryx, but then our camping/riding friend sent me a pic and some message board threads about the RZR S four seat conversion cage from Vent Racing. Since we have a light hauler toyhauler, weight is a concern, I always like the Polaris RZR S from a weight, size, and sport perspective, but didn't think it could be converted to a four seater safely. Our kids are 8 and 12 respectively, but are light weight for their age, and my wife and I are not huge people either, so after looking at the pics we thought it might be possible for us to fit in safely as a family.
The Ultimate Customer Service company
After calling Vent Racing and talking with Mike about our needs for RZR S Four Seat, describing our riding style, where we wanted to use the side by side, our sizes, weights, etc. we were even more excited, but couldn't make a decision until we could actually sit in the machine with the the actual four seat cage and seat installed. Since we are in Denver, CO and Vent Racing is located in Utah, I thought we were at an impasse. However, it turns out that Jake from Vent Racing was at that moment on his way from UT to Denver with a converted four seater RZR. After Jake made the entire trip, with dealer stops along the way, he called me from the road and met us in a rainstorm in a parking lot with an offer to test ride the four seat RZR! At this time is was about 9:30pm, cold, raining, and I knew he had to be tired and just wanting to find a place to crash for the night.
Totally Satified with the Four Seat RZR S cage
After meeting with Jake, and sitting in the RZR with the Four Seat Cage, we went out the next day and bought a 2009 RZR S and ordered the RZR S four seat conversion from Vent. The install was a bit tricky, the key being to getting the top passeger side bracket lined up first. Once we figured that out, the rest of the install went ok. The kids fit in perfectly, the machine still feels balanced on the trails, and all our neighbors are jealous, lol!
First ride with the Four Seater impressions
After our first trip to the mountains with our new RZR S this last weekend, I can say that the whole family is thrilled with the performance. The four seat conversion looks great, and power sliding, climbing and just trail riding are smooth, controllable and fun for everyone. The next thing were adding are some lights, side view mirrors, and a soft top to go with the windshield and winch that are already installed.
Again, we would not have bought the RZR S if it wasn't for the exceptional service from Mike and Jake at Vent Racing. But now that some of our friends and neighbors have seen and ridden in the four seat version, they are planning on getting the conversion for their RZR's too.
Thornton Colorado Aquatic Center finally approved.
The long awaited joint venture between the Adams 12 school district and the City of Thornton to build the district's new aquatic facility at the Holly Sports complex in Thornton finally received Thornton City Council approval this week. The Holly Sports Complex is located on the Southwest corner of 136th Avenue and Holly Street and will be known as the Thornton Trailwinds Park and Open space. The joint agreement betweent the city and the school district is a first according to city staff members. The Aquatic Center is scheduled to open in the fall of 2010 and will eventually be attached to the new recreation center the city is also planning for the area. According to the city's agreement with the school district, the pool will be available to city residents up to 40 percent of the time, when not in use by the district. Also, the city is planning a new dog park in the area, which is great news to those of us who love our four legged friends. The overall cost of the new Aquatic Center is projected at $18.8 million dollars.
Finally, the achieve better access to the area, the city recently approved a 2.8 million dollar plan to fund a street widening along 136th Avenue between Cherry and Holly in front of Horizon High School. The current two lane road is slated to become a five lane with a continuous center turn lane. Naturally, in the interests of safety, new traffic signals are planned in front of the high school and for the Aquatic Center entrance.
Stuart Dobson
Infinity Real Estate Services LLC Thornton, Colorado Denver Metro Colorado Homes for Sale 303.919.0309 Stuart@StuartDobson.com
Is the one I didn't do! Allow me
to explain a bit.
As real estate brokers we are often confronted
with listing a property that is overpriced if we would list it at what the owner
'feels' it's worth. As most of us have learned the best thing to do is to
walk away from the deal so as not to spend money, time and effort in what will
undoubtedly become the fruitless pursuit of a sale.
This
same rule also applies to investments that sound 'too good to
be true' (aka Bernie Madoff funds). We are less likely the make 'the big
mistake' with taking on a client that we shouldn't have or investing in
something we should not have if we don't get too greedy, take a step back, and
forecast a bit down the road to where this is most likely to take
us.
Searching for
Colorado foreclosures or bank owned properties
If
you want to search the Colorado MLS listings for Foreclosures
or Bank Owned Properties, this simple interactive MLS IDX
search will help. It allows an investor or potential home buyer to search
in a number of ways including by the foreclosures in the pre-foreclosure process
or once the home or property is already bank owned.
Searching
with a map
A 'map' search feature is also built into this Denver MLS
search which allows you to select a tab at the top of the search map
and even select a terrain map that allows visual detail all the way down to
sidewalks and swimming pools!
If you know the city or neighborhood you
are searching for a house or land in, you can select the specific page for the
neighborhood and the map will automatically show you which homes are available
for sale in that neighborhood. At this point you can sign up to
receive email updates as new listings become available and they
will be automatically sent to your email account.
Of course there is the
option to search by school district, and even by 5% or greater price
drops! As the technology improves, we continue to try to provide you with
the latest tools to help you find the land or homes you are looking for on your
schedule and in the way you
want to view the information.
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