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Real Estate Still Best Investment
I still think real estate is the best investment you can make in the United States. I don’t care what the doomsayers are saying about the housing market. The brokers are biting their nails to shreds, worried that they can’t get Americans to buy buy buy this year. I read some news story (sorry, I [...]
Continue reading...How’s Real Estate Where You Are?
Tuesday, March 8, 2011
I haven’t heard a peep about the housing market from the media. Why do they go black on so many important issues? Anyway, I recently read an interesting article at MSN Money about remodeling versus moving. According to the article, “keeping up a home for 30 years may cost you up to four times its [...]
Continue reading...Home Ownership Down
Monday, January 31, 2011
Home ownership rates continue to plummet. According to CNBC, Americans just aren’t buying homes so much. America’s home ownership rate, after holding steady for a while, took a pretty big plunge in Q4, from 66.9 percent to 66.5 percent. That’s down from the 2004 peak of 69.2 percent and the lowest level since 1998. Homeownership [...]
Continue reading...My Before, During, and After Story, Part 4
Saturday, November 20, 2010
This is the story of our renovation, the toils and victories through a sweltering summer of blood, sweat and tears. Read all the gory details of Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3. Our kitchen project was finally coming to a close. Yet even now, three months since we moved back in, there are many [...]
Continue reading...Housing Armaggedon?!
Friday, October 15, 2010
I don’t know a whole lot about the housing market, but like most other things, I figure such issues are easily understood with a healthy dose of common sense. There’s a blog post story in the Wall Street Journal (yes, I guess even the high-brow WSJ folks blog! lol!) called Are We Headed For Housing [...]
Continue reading...Offbeat Design is Right!
Tuesday, January 19, 2010
When I was young– back in the late 70s and early 80s– there was a craze for families to get “back to nature.” Not to be swinging from the trees, mind you, but to leave the dirty urban centers with their high taxes, crime, and chaos, and live free in the wilderness. We moved away [...]
Continue reading...OverGrading Your Upgrade
Sunday, January 17, 2010
When I bought this old house, I knew it needed work. I was actually thrilled to get a house that I could do “my” way. I envisioned solid-surface countertops, brass fixtures, a jacuzzi in the Master Bedroom Suite, a Family Room with a great big stone hearth, and solid oak flooring everywhere! Whoa, Nellie. I [...]
Continue reading...Staging Your Home to Sell Your Home
Friday, November 21, 2008
Now that real estate seems to be the hot topic these days (what with the mortgage bust and the major shift in the real estate market), more people are thinking about selling their homes. Now everyone knows that you can’t put your house on the market, fling the doors open, and expect interested buyers to [...]
Continue reading...Finding Real Estate Online
Thursday, June 12, 2008
I’ve found a few very good and reliable websites for researching and finding real estate online. These websites can give you property value and market value, among other things. The Yahoo! site also breaks down demographics for the local area. I think these are valuable resources. Yahoo! Real Estate Realtor.com Zillow.com Trulia.com There are also [...]
Continue reading...I’m Rebecca
:) I’m a married mom of four teenage children. We live in Upstate New York. We bought an old 1855 home and acre property, over 10 years ago. We've been in the slow, agonizing process of living in the home while (trying) to renovate it. When I'm not renovating, I'm a freelance writer and blogger.
We've learned to dig a French drain, plant huge flower and vegetable gardens, wire a circuit panel, install furnace ducting, understand the enigmatic complexities of the plumbing system, and more. It's been *quite* the adventure.
You can read more about us here, read up on the history of the home, and read about what we've renovated so far. Thanks for visiting!
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