Home Improvement
Renovations That Pay Back Less Than Owners Think
A homeowner told me proudly that his forty thousand dollar primary suite addition would easily add sixty thousand to his home's...
A seller I worked with insisted on listing fifteen thousand dollars above what the comparable sales supported, reasoning that buyers negotiate anyway so a higher starting number gave room to come down.
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Home Improvement
A homeowner told me proudly that his forty thousand dollar primary suite addition would easily add sixty thousand to his home's...
Property Investing
Two properties crossed my desk the same week last year, both listed at four hundred thousand dollars, both advertising a seven...
Property Investing
My first rental property looked profitable on the back of an envelope: rent of eighteen hundred dollars against a mortgage...
Renting
A tenant I know lost eleven hundred dollars of a security deposit over a clause she never read, on the fourth page of a lease...
Renting
I once had a fellow landlord ask me, over coffee, why I did not simply ask applicants whether they planned to have kids soon,...
Mortgages and Financing
A homeowner called me convinced she should refinance because rates had dropped a full percentage point since her original loan.
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Three writers with different vantage points on the same market: one worked mortgage underwriting before switching to buyer representation, one staged houses for a title company, and one manages a small portfolio of rental units himself. Every article carries a byline, and nothing runs that the writer would not act on personally.