Colorado Dream House Team Blog

The number one thing we hear from our buyers everyday is there are no homes to buy on the market. This is the biggest challenge the real estate industry is facing in the Denver Metro area at this time. Inventory has never been this low and as such, people are wondering how they could find a home ...

When you submit a contract on a house, you also submit what they call ‘earnest money.’ This is a deposit that is a portion of your down payment money which you will use to purchase the house. Earnest money can be as little as $500, but we have handled earnest money as much as $250,000. The money ...

The title of the column seems like a rather obvious statement, but you would be surprised at how many times we deal with buyers and sellers who are looking for some guarantee when buying real estate. The best way to explain this is to give you various examples of what we experience on a day-to-da...

What’s the question on everyone’s lips? How’s the market? So, how is the market? It’s up, it’s fast, it’s strong, and it’s a seller’s market. Seller’s market means low inventory higher prices and much more competitive offers. In fact, majority of sellers are selling their homes for the asking pri...

Recently, there was an article in Huffington Post stating that Douglas County in Colorado is listed at #2 as one of the 10 best counties in America. What the article failed to mention in detail’s,  why it is the best county in the U.S?  Since our team specializes in selling homes In particularly ...

What an adventure this first 100 days has been!  I would like to introduce myself. I am Karin Bearnarth, and I am new to Real Estate. It was only two years ago when I worked solely as a wedding planner in Breckenridge, CO. Working with new brides and grooms gave me great satisfaction. However, I ...

It is the start of the New Year, and maybe you are thinking that selling your home in 2015 might be a good idea and what’s a better time to do so than in spring? If you wish to get the most amount of money in the least amount of time then, there are some things you should probably do to prepare t...

It is 2015 and by mid-January more homes will be entering the market. However, just putting a sign in your yard and depending on Zillow/Trulia to advertise, will not be enough to get potential buyers to view your property. It is up to the real estate agent to come up with a marketing strategy to ...

As you know if you have been following my column for a long time you know the week of Christmas is the one time in the year that I don’t like to write about business. I always say there are 51 other weeks in the year to do that. Instead I like to write about stories of the human condition. Many o...

It is hard for many people to conceptualize what the real estate market is. It is like trying to describe in words what the Internet is or what space is. The market for home sales can be quite difficult to understand. Hopefully, this article can help give more insight in understanding the real es...