America the Beautiful Park 126 Cimino Drive, Colorado Springs, CO 80903 Have an adults afternoon this Saturday, July 21, 2018 from 1:00 pm-4:00 pm for The Springs Beer Fest! Event is for 21 years and older only. Enjoy music, vendors, food and great craft beer. It features unlimited samples of beer from over 50 craft […]
Archives: July 2018
Home buying myths
Tips for shopping around for a mortgage — even if you think you don’t qualify. Think you’re not ready to unlock home ownership yet? That the financial hurdles are too high? You may be short-changing yourself. Many of the things renters believe about home-buying are myths. Here’s the real deal. Myth: I Have to Put […]
The real reasons we buy a home
We often talk about why it makes financial sense to buy a home, but more often than not, the emotional reasons are the more powerful or compelling ones. No matter what shape or size your living space is, the concept and feeling of home can mean different things to different people. Whether it’s a certain […]
Has anyone tried these?
Remember those giant, gooey cinnamon rolls that grandma used to make when you visited? While nothing compared (or still compares) to that homemade goodness, there are other nearly-just-as-good recipes out there to try, like these scrumdiddlyumptious cinnamon rolls that can be found at this truck stop and cafe: Move over, Cinnabon: the best cinnamon rolls […]
Owning Makes More Sense
When comparing the cost of owning a home to renting, there is more than the difference in house payment against the rent currently being paid. It very well could be lower than the rent but when you consider the other benefits, owning could be much lower than renting. Each mortgage payment has an amount that […]
How to prevent weeds?
When it comes to weeds in your garden, an hour of prevention is better than a season of yanking. Unlike seeds and plants you buy from catalogs and nurseries, indigenous common weeds are naturally suited to the sun, soil, and water conditions of your garden. That’s why it’s so hard to get rid of weeds […]
House-buying power?
We keep hearing that home affordability is approaching crisis levels. While this may be true in a few metros across the country, housing affordability is not a challenge in the clear majority of the country. In their most recent Real House Price Index, First American reported that consumer “house-buying power” is at “near-historic levels.” Their […]
This weekend in Colorado Springs!
Are you making any of these mistakes?
The National Association of Realtors (NAR) keeps historical data on many aspects of homeownership. One of their data points, which has changed dramatically, is the median tenure of a family in a home, meaning how long a family stays in a home prior to moving. As the graph below shows, over the last twenty years […]
How long do people live in their house?
The National Association of Realtors (NAR) keeps historical data on many aspects of homeownership. One of their data points, which has changed dramatically, is the median tenure of a family in a home, meaning how long a family stays in a home prior to moving. As the graph below shows, over the last twenty years […]