In between showing homes to prospective buyers and visiting with current clients, there is the time alone in the car. It's my creative time to reflect on what I enjoy about this business of real estate. The other day, it hit me [...]
Kathy has asked me once again to contribute an article for her newsletter. Some of you may remember previous articles about financing homes for retirement and a myriad of options to choose from. My name is [...]
We get requests like that all the time from people that have never even been to Coastal Delaware. I often wonder what difference it makes if you like or don't like a particular floor plan unless you already know you like the area and the community. You can look at pictures of houses, study the floor plans til you find the perfect one, but [...]
I was working with a wonderful couple that was looking for a retirement home here in Coastal Delaware. They had just retired, their family home was for sale, and Kathy was working with them to find a new home. Well, they found the perfect home and applied for a mortgage. Everything had been planned out very carefully and they had no doubt [...]
"We're #1!" or "The Top Selling Community" are the headlines and billboards that scream for attention. If Builder X is the top selling builder, that's where you should go .. or is it? Sometimes the top seller is the national organization with the largest marketing budget and the best trained sales force. Occasionally the best selling [...]
Is a new home on your holiday list this year? Conventional wisdom will tell you -
The holidays are a bad time of year to go house hunting!
1. Interest Rates are low but they are beginning to creep up again. 2. Home prices are low and there are deals on both new and inventory homes. 3. [...]
Whats the best deal in a 55+ community like Heritage Shores? Is it a to-be-built home? Or is it one of the resale homes on the market right now? Consider that construction began at Heritage Shores, one of Coastal Delaware's first active adult communities, at the end of 2005, the peak of the housing market. Targeted to the retiring Baby [...]
I'm a news junkie and CNBC, CNN or NPR is always my background. I get really angry when I hear the talking heads spout the doom and gloom with such certainty. What real estate market are they talking about? Not the local market here in Coastal Delaware. All real estate is local! I am so busy I cannot keep up with all of the new people [...]
You can bike or walk from Lewes to Rehoboth Beach without ever getting onto Route 1!
I don't know about you, but riding my bike on the shoulder of Route 1, dodging the cars and buses and motorcycles is not my idea of fun. But, cycling the beautiful, shaded Junction & Breakwater Trail is great exercise and relaxing at the same time.
"The [...]
