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    Unsuspecting Items That Are Red Flags in A House for Sale

    Watching Flip or Flop on HGTV is one of my favorite things to do when I’m sick or when the kids are asleep and we have a half hour to just relax. While I know that the show doesn’t show every aspect of flipping homes, it does provide us with some very valuable information. Every […] More

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    How To Tell if A House is in A Good Location When Buying

    Location, location, location; it’s the most important aspect of any real estate deal. It’s been said that buying the worst house on the best street is the best way to buy, but no one wants the worst house, right? Additionally, not everyone can afford to buy the worst house and fix it up, nor does […] More

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    The Downside of Deciding to Live in A Tiny House

    While watching “Fixer Upper” (do you not just adore Chip and Joanna Gaines and everything they stand for?) recently with my husband at the end of a particularly stressful day, we noticed a promo for a show about tiny houses. Tiny houses; the kind of houses that are about 300-square feet on the large side […] More

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    The Best Tips to Help You Write A Killer For Sale Ad for Your Home

    My husband and I have a strange obsession; we really love looking at the houses that are for sale in our neighborhood. Perhaps it stems from years of looking at houses for sale in our neighborhood before we even lived here since it’s our dream neighborhood. You know the one. The neighborhood that makes people’s […] More

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    If Your House Isn’t Selling, This Might Be Why

    I’ve never sold a house; there, I said it. My husband and I built our first home together 12 years ago when we were planning our wedding. When we welcomed our twins in 2014 and realized that our 1,200-square-foot starter home did not cut it for our new family of six, we were going to […] More

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    The Least Expensive Ways to Prep Your House For Sale

    I have never sold a home in my life. We built our first house during the big boom in 2004. We paid entirely too much for it, we know. However, when we welcomed our twins (babies three and four) into our lives in 2014, we had to buy a bigger home. Since home values still […] More

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    5 Ways To Get Your House Market Ready for Nothing

    I am not a home selling expert. I am not a realtor; though I did get my real estate license when I was 19 and attempt to use it for a while before realizing that it was not for me at that age. In the interest of full disclosure here, I’ve also never once sold […] More

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    How Long Does it Really Take to Buy a Home?

    Once you find the home of your dreams, you want to move in yesterday. I get it; I’ve both built and purchased homes and I know that feeling of sheer impatience and excitement all worked together in a way that makes you feel as if you might cry when there is a delay. When my […] More

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