Whether you renovate or go for a knockdown and building new will all depend on your personal needs and wants, the budget you have established and the time constraints built into a plan as well as how long you’ll plan to be living in that home.Renovating probably will be a much less costly path to
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06/27/2021
The forbearance for those not having to pay their mortgages during the COVID-19 pandemic is about to end on June 30, unless it is extended once again.Although, one can never predict what course the government might take at the last minute. But at the same moment in time, I am quite concerned for
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06/17/2021
I had been thinking about this past Memorial Day weekend and how all of us are free to purchase whatever we want and to do so in a manner and environment that allows us to decide independently how, when, and where we can do it. I believe to some degree we take for granted and forget how easy life
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06/10/2021
As I have been driving around the last few weeks I have noticed that there are those homeowners that have done some gorgeous plantings of annuals and other types of shrubbery and bushes.The color has lit up those properties to make them stand out above others on their block.However, I have seen s
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06/10/2021
I want to wish everyone a healthy, happy and enjoyable Memorial Day Weekend and remember everyone that has enable us to stay free for 245 years!While you’ve been searching for that special place to call home as prices have increased are you still qualified to handle the monthly costs?Maybe those
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05/28/2021
If you have noticed, there have been sporadic reports of a bubble in real estate and then other reports that there is no bubble in real estate. How would one determine the future of real estate? Did you read the real estate column in the Sunday, May 16, Newsday? It talked about bidding wars, lack
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05/18/2021
There has been so much talk and news about companies who have set their future target dates to reduce their carbon footprints to reduce and combat climate change around the globe. There are deniers to these scientific facts concerning climate change, but I believe the majority know it has been ha
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05/06/2021
First off, I want to let everyone know that no matter what you read about doom-and-gloom scenarios, currently there is no bubble in the real estate market. I have conveyed this many times: Our inventory is at a historically low level. However, the No. 1 reason that prices went up to high single a
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04/30/2021
Agents are always attending open houses with their clients as a more efficient way of being able to show properties, especially on Saturdays and Sundays. Since the market has sprung back in the last two quarters of 2020, I have noticed the droves of purchasers out there visiting open houses.I alw
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04/22/2021
As the market has rebounded over the last 10 years, negative equity for many who were able to remain in their homes has turned positive with over 50 percent of homeowners have gained equity in their homes as per Core Logic through 2020.According to Census Bureau data as of the last quarter of 202
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04/19/2021
