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Selling 1306 Oak Hill Ave Lawrence Kansas at Full Asking Price  The asking price was $100,000 which was determined based on comparable SOLD properties, square footage, location, values of neighboring houses, condition, and seller motivation. There were only 3 single family properties on the marke...

What's My Home Worth Lawrence Kansas?  The easiest way to figure out what your home is worth for the average Lawrence Kansas homes for sale, is to take your square feet and add two zeros.  For example, if your sqft is 1800, your average Lawrence property is worth $180,000. What's My Home Worth La...

Median Age of Sellers Is 53--Income $95,400--Average 77 Days On Market (DOM) according to the 2012 NAR Survey of Buyers and Sellers. These are national figures.  While national figures are always interesting, real estate is very local in nature. On the local level, the Lawrence Board of REALTORS ...

Looking For Three Bedroom, Ranch, Mission Kansas Homes For Sale?  As 21st century buyers who use Google to search for houses for sale, you are starting to search using longer search phrases to get better search results.  Such as, if you are Looking For Three Bedroom, Ranch, Mission Kansas Homes F...

I Heard a Heavy Thud in the Night on My House in Lawrence Kansas!  The culprit?  A hedgeapple (photo below--baseball card there for size reference) fell out of a nearby hedge tree (also known as Osage Orange tree) and landed on our roof!  Hedgeapples are quite often misnamed as hedge balls, green...

Coloradans, Don't Like Recreational Use of Marijuana?  Move to Kansas!  Coloradans, yes, it is not Coloradoans any more but Coloradans, voted this past week to legalize recreational use of Colorado. Not wanting to miss the chance to encourage people to move to Kansas, where recreational use of ma...

FREE Med Dominos Pizza at Fun and Games Lawrence KS w/Costume Purchase!!  Today November 13, 2012 and tomorrow November 14, 2012, come in to Fun and Games, buy a costume and receive a FREE Dominos Medium Pizza! Fun and Games is locally owned and operated and is located at 830 Massachusetts Street...

Thank You Applebees, Chili's, Hy-Vee, Famous Dave's From Veterans! Sunday or Monday, Applebees, Chili's, Hy-Vee, Famous Dave's, and others are offering a free meal to Veterans for Veterans' Day.  Thank you! Applebees offered about 8 differenct meals with one of them being Double Crunch Shrimp tha...

Calling My Own Shots As an Independent REALTOR in Lawrence Kansas.  It didn't start that way.  In Kansas, a REALTOR sales person must be under a broker's supervision for two years.  I was under the supervision of Broker Bryan Hedges of Realty Executives, Hedges Real Estate for about 4 years befor...

$8.27 Per Hour Is the Median Wage For a 20 Hour Per Week REALTOR!  That's not much above the $7.25 per hour minimum wage for Lawrence Kansas!!  This is according to NAR's 2012 Member Profile, which shows the median annual income for REALTORS in the less than 20 hours per week, 20 to 39, 40 to 59,...