Doug's Blog- Northern Colorado Real Estate

This year (2006), I was all over the place with my marketing. My goal is to always be different and more creative than the next guy. Well, I was certainly different and creative this year but when I look back, I was trying to be all things to all people. In other words, I spread myself too thin i...

In my day to day real estate practice, I prefer to work with sellers.  It seems to me that sellers have a better sense of what they want (motivation) and what they need (net proceeds).  A buyer tends to be more flighty and even though we are in a great buyers market, most appear to be on an exped...

If you have spent any time on this blog, you may have noticed that political correctness is not my forte'. It is with great pride, a sense of tradition and faith that inspires me to wish everyone a:Merry Christmas!!!

I love the real estate business!  In fact, one of the most gratifying aspects of this business are the people I meet within the industry (i.e. clients, other agents, etc). I guess I must be a people person and look forward to the challenges of learning about people and why they do what they do (o...

As I am preparing my 2007 business plan and budget, I continue to be amazed that I am considering "throwing out" all print advertising.  Some of the magazine ads that I have placed in the past have been fruitful (at best) but the newspaper has been a total disaster.  In the past year and a half, ...

If you don't live in Northern Colorado, you may think that the weather this time of year is horrible.  Well, right now I'm looking out my office window and I see small patches of snow on the ground, at least 200 canadian geese on Lake Loveland and I can walk outside without a jacket and still be ...

Since most of the media likes to distribute or broadcast the "negative".  I thought I would mention a positive:Woodward Governor is relocating their corporate headquarters to northern colorado.  On a future post, you will see a summary of all the good news that is coming to northern colorado.  I ...

Coloradoans facing foreclosure?  Help is in the way..... STOP FORECLOSURE

We might as well just buy our graves sight's now.  If you are a property owner or plan on being one in the not too distant future, you may be seeing all the negative headlines and saying to yourself, "I'll just wait and see how things shake out".  The negativity, in my estimation, is more fiction...

If you have read the newspaper lately, it's amazing to me that we still choose to eat, sleep and breathe.  Why not just end it now?  Bubble this, bubble that, the market's in the tank, the sky is falling, blah, blah, blah, blah.In Colorado we have been in a stagnate market for a while but many of...