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For the 7th straight year, Americans say real estate is the best long-term investment opportunity — beating out stocks and bonds, savings accounts/CDs, and gold. In this year’s Gallup Economy and Personal Finance survey, which was conducted April 1-14 of this year, 35% of Americans named real estate the top investment. Stocks were a distant […]
Sometimes people think paint doesn’t matter. “It’s easy to change,” they say. That’s 100% true. It’s inexpensive, as well. If something’s easy and cheap, it can’t have much impact, right? Wrong! When you sell a home, you want to create a setting in which the new owners can picture their lives unfolding. That’s where a […]
In a seller’s market like the one we have now in the Tri-Cities, homeowners are sometimes tempted to think they can squeeze an extra $5,000 – $10,000 (or more) out of their home when they put it up for sale. That’s a mistake. That’s not how it works. What I think is happening in a […]
When the real estate market is moving as quickly as ours has for the past couple years, and when inventory is as tight as it’s been (across the country, not just here), you might think homebuyers would have to sacrifice some of their wish-list items in order to get in a home that works for […]
Let me start with my usual disclaimer that all real estate is local, and what happens nationally doesn’t always impact us here in the Tri-Cities. That said, it’s still smart to know what’s being said across the industry as a whole because things like the presidential election or the recession that some (but not all) […]
Chances are you’ve found yourself in an HGTV binge session at some point, watching multiple episodes or entire seasons of Property Brothers, House Hunters and the like. We do that, too, at the McGee household! Those real estate reality shows are fun to watch but nobody really believes that they represent how a real estate […]