Cherise Selley's (cheriseselley) Blog

In order to maintain its AAA four-diamond status, Cheyenne Mountain resort is vaulting ahead, thanks to a 6% over budget increase in business this year, to renovate its 316-room hotel for an estimated cost of around $20 million dollars, as reported by Rebecca Tonn of The Colorado Springs Busines...

According to the NAR Relocation Report for 2008, “338 households moved to El Paso County from Arapahoe County. That's almost one family per day. An additional 311 households moved to El Paso County from Douglas County as well as 301 from Denver County. From the six Metro Denver counties, a total...

Last year Gordon and I had celebrated his 50th birthday in Aspen, Colorado where we attended the Jazz Aspen Snowmass Labor Day Festival. It was two great evenings for us as we listened to The Black-Eyed Peas, Doobie Brothers and Allman Brothers. I think we’re going to trek up to Aspen again this...

Dim or indistinct views about the values of the Colorado Springs Real Estate market are the cause of frustration between Colorado Springs Realtors, and buyers and sellers alike. So long as ready consumers derive their sources of information outside the facts about the market, I think everyone ca...

Today there are too many problems that are simply out of our control. For example, when you take a look at the total credit market debt in the United States, including government, corporate and personal debt, the numbers are frankly staggering, which amount to 360 percent of our Gross Domestic P...

If approved by the Board of County Commissioners, it looks as if El Paso County might enter into a $25 million dollar deal to buy a new 3-story office building, parking garage and wastewater treatment on the former Intel campus, as reported by Eileen Welsome of The Gazette. Personally, this is g...

Face it. No one can actually figure out the potential problems of the future and absolutely fix these in our present time and in light of our horrendous state of affairs. And isn’t this how fear operates, pushing us out of the present into a territory of the unknown whereby doubt and discouragem...

A report released by the Pikes Peak Regional Building Department showed some optimistic progress regarding single-family home building permits. From January 1 through May 31, single-family permits totaled 670 as compared to 373 for the first five months of 2009. From my experience as a Colorado ...

As a mother who has already raised the last teenage boy of our family, there were times it was very tempting to put a GPS tracking device on his car. Sometimes, it’s been difficult to keep up with him socially, and for sure, I might have slept more soundly during the early morning hours. Needles...

As a Colorado Springs Realtor who has effectively used internet marketing for the past thirteen years, the fun really begins once you’ve started to engage with those leads (hopefully within 24-48 hours) who have somehow contacted your office. Don’t forget to attain complete formalities regarding...