Spring Optimism
According to the BARA, the Boulder Area Realtor Association, home sales in Boulder in the first quarter of 2009 were down 50% compared to the same period in 2008. Erie home sales were down 33%, Longmont was down 26 percent, and both Louisiville and Lafayette were down 23%. Boulder showed only 76 buyers closing on [...]
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Spring Cleanup
Of course you make sure your home is neat and clean and ready to show to potential buyers if you have it on the market. Is a tidy home enough? One thing to consider is setting the stage. Remember you are not just selling a house, you are selling a home. Some of the tips [...]
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Zillow partnership
In this tough economic time advertisers need to continue to market their properties aggressively. We at the Camera want to help you market your listings and sell your properties. To this end we have partnered with the online real estate site Zillow.com. Zillow is a relatively new site but has already moved up to be [...]
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Calling All Boulder Area Realtors
We have recently partnered with Zillow.com a national online rela estate site. We are very excited about this partnership and the options we can offer realtors through our partnership. We’ve sent out letters and emails to most of you and called a lot of you, too. We would really like to talk to you about [...]
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Recession Proof Fun
One of the first things many of us sacrifice when we don’t have extra cash is the entertainment budget. We don’t eat out as much, we don’t go to the movies, we don’t buy books. We stay at home and watch bad TV. What is up with that Hole in The Wall show? I could [...]
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Resolutions
Today is January 15th. Middle of the month. Two weeks past New Year’s when most of us, whether we admit it or not, have made some kind of resolutions for the coming year. Studies show that eighty percent of us make the same resolutions year after year. Some studies claim that at least ninety-two [...]
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Moving On……
The holidays are officially over. We finally took down the last of the decorations in our office. I still see a few icicle lights hanging across the street from our building, but mostly the silver and gold is gone. My 3 year old nephew is very sad when the blow-up lawn ornaments in his neighborhood deflate. [...]
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DRINK RESPONSIBLY!
Yesterday the Camera had a story about alcohol and animals. Not two topics I would normally put together. One phrase struck me as particularly funny. The story said that dogs are much more likely to drink alcohol than cats. Which was a huge relief to me. It is very reassuring to know that my cats are not [...]
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HAPPY NEWS YEAR!!!!
Another year winds to a close….. and it has certainly been an interesting one! While the rental side of the market has been great, the sales side has been, well, less than good. As we head into the new year we can only hope that the market will be good for both property managers and [...]
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Happy Holi-daze
The madness is upon us and it didn’t just come at the midnight clear – it’s been going on for a few weeks now. It is an interesting phenomenon! There is probably less pandemonium than some years just because people are, by choice or necessity, scaling back on spending this year. Still it seems there [...]
