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66Building a Home NOW: Things to Consider
The real estate market -- driven by buyers right now -- is the straw that stirs the soup when deciding to build your own home, just as it would be if you were thinking of buying a re-sale home or a...
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65Ancient Architecture -- American Style
While homes have gotten bigger, building lots in general have gotten smaller over the past decade, forcing the homebuilders to look for ways to make better use of space both inside and outside a home. As...
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62Know Neighborhood Restrictions BEFORE Buying a Home There
If you’re buying a home, whether new or previously lived-in, chances are good that your neighborhood has a homeowners’ association and its accompanying Covenants Conditions andRestrictions (CC&Rs)....
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58Realtorspeak: A Language that May Need Translation
How often have you read the words “diamond in the rough” to describe a house for sale, only to find that the house needs every kind of repair conceivable? Euphemisms are alive and well in real...
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46Put Some Light on the Subject
Time was when lighting fixtures were placed merely to illuminate, such as to do homework on desktops, read music at the piano or to cast light next to a comfy chair where Dad read the evening paper. Hit...
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53Carpets Cast Ghostly Dilemma
It’s absolutely ghostly, but you may define it as ghastly. It’s carpet ghosts. Your home is only a year old and your light-colored carpeting has taken on a dark line at the perimeter of every room and...
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51Loading Up Your New House with Resale Potential
Can you tell just by looking whether a new home community will eventually become a good resale area in the future? What is the formula that can assure you that the neighborhood will age well, keeping values...
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58What Does the Rescue Plan Mean to Us Average Joe Six-Packs?
Somehow I don’t think you and I are going to get a “Thank You” card for bailing out the financial markets. And I've never been referred to as Joe Six-pack until recently, but I do know the way we...
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51The Homebuying Domino Effect
If you know in no uncertain terms that you’ll need the proceeds from your current home to purchase your newly built one, you may be asking the builder to entertain a “contingent” offer. Not all...
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54So What is a "Production" Home?
The word “production,” suggests that houses are on assembly lines – akin to a production line for a car. You just might be surprised, however, at how homebuilders have found ways to make new home...
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