Salida Colorado Short Sales..Sellers, if you are considering an auction option for your short sale, think again! Currently, we have almost no auctions like this but it looks like the banks are beginning to consider it. The following post and comments are enlightening. I have a short sale with Ba
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11/11/2012
Attention Sellers.Home with acreage not selling? Think Small! Problem: In the Salida Colorado Real Estate market, many folks are selling their homes, many of which are located on large acreages. Unfortunately, in our area, the target market for these homes is relatively small due to the large ac
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11/11/2012
This is always a tough decision. If you are buying or selling Salida Colorado real estate, our average home price is 225,000. Homes with acreage are much more than that. Here are 3 idea that may help... read the post below for details. 1. Put a "home of choice" contingency into the contract if yo
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11/10/2012
Salida Colorado Restaurant Series: Finding a good place to eat Although Salida is a relatively small town (5500), we have amazingly good restaurants. I think being an "undiscovered resort town" helps. We are known for downhill skiing (Monarch Mountain), white water sports, fly fishing which brin
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11/10/2012
Salida Colorado 3rd Quarter Market Report Series: San Luis Valley Our sister valley to the southwest, San Luis Valley is a completely different market area. It is not in the Arkansas river valley so does not have "resort-priced" homes. It's largest town is Saguache, a lovely small town with 494 i
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11/09/2012
Veteran's Day Weekend, 2012. Salida Colorado & Buena Vista Colorado... Things to Do History When I started doing a little research on our upcoming holiday, Veterans Day I knew it was a way to honor soldiers. What I did not know is that President Woodrow Wilson declared November 11th, 1918 as Arm
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11/08/2012
Salida Colorado Real Estate Quarterly Reports Series: Park County To put is simply, our neighboring county to the north, Park County is exploding with business. Although there are only 47 homes for sale, closed sales is up 333% from the first 3 quarters in 2011. Months supply of homes has gone do
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11/07/2012
Salida Colorado Real Estate Quarterly Reports Series: Fremont/Custer Fremont and Custer County are two fairly rural counties so the MLS clumps their numbers together. Both are lovely and have very affordable real estate. In both counties combined, they have 217 homes for sale in the third quarter
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11/06/2012
Salida Colorado Real Estate Quarterly Reports Series: Nathrop Nathrop Colorado is a community of 1,198 people nestled next to the Collegiate Peaks between Buena Vista and Salida Colorado. It is quite rural, with no defined town center. Folks who live there either claim Salida or Buena Vista as th
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11/05/2012
Salida Colorado Real Estate Quarterly Reports Series: Buena Vista The MLS board has just published the 3rd quarter residential home sales activity and this is the 2nd of 6 in the marlet report series. Since our MLS area is small and broken up into small communities, I have taken each one to help
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11/04/2012
