Bob's Blog

I mentioned in my last post that I'd try to keep up with Zillow's accuracy in my corner of the world.  Below you'll find the results for Zillow's Zestimate vs. the Listing Agent's pricing for the 80302 zip in Boulder, Colorado for the month of March 2007. If you are a math type, then you might wa...

Alan Dalton recently suggested http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0DNtYtM_gX0 that Zillow’s Zestimate’s are really nothing more than a modern day parlour game. Fair enough. There are many of us who agree whole heartedly with Mr. Dalton. Some of you out there may disagree. My default, like many of you...

I just got off the phone with a potential client who knew zilch about how the typical real estate transaction works. All she knew was that she needed a Broomfield real estate agent. Commissions…what are they? Inspection…is that for pricing? Contracts…you mean I have to sign something? It reminded...

Real-a-Save is the proud owner of a brand new Toyota Prius. Our first company car! Come on guys, you’re probably thinking, “Sure, I can understand that choice”. I mean that baby can fly like a Porsche on nitrous! And for a man gently approaching his 40th birthday with the grace of a portly baller...

I was watching my 17-month old daughter play with some poker chips on the floor this evening, and was (momentarily) impressed with how methodically she was picking each chip up off the floor and putting it deliberately into the container. Pile A goes into container B. Chip to container, chip to c...

Let’s keep it simple. That’s the guiding thought behind what we’re doing over at Real-a-Save. Buying a house is a pretty straight forward process: you start looking for a house, narrow down your search, take a look inside, make an offer on your favorite, navigate some hurdles, close the deal, mov...

When I first moved to Colorado from New York I had this fantasy about living in the mountains. I remember driving my motorcycle through Colorado back in the early 90’s on a cross-country trip with a buddy of mine and being just blown away by the Rockies. I felt like those tourists who walk around...

You can’t believe everything you read. If you were to judge the Boulder real estate market by what is being written and said about the Colorado market in general, then you’d be terrified. Foreclosure, unscrupulous lenders, plummeting house prices, and every other plague imaginable has infested th...