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Selling Your Home Under Proposed Law Cops Could Evict Squatters Squatters will find the long arm of the law evicting them under a bill the Utah State Legislature is reviewing if it becomes law.  Also, state leaders want to see more than 30,000 homes built in Utah over the next few years. That would help the growing housing shortage. Those homes will likely have smaller […]
Uncategorized Fed Cuts Interest Rates 1/2%; Time to get off the fence I received this email from one of my lenders.  If you’ve been waiting to buy or sell a home, now is the best time in years. The email I received from a lender said, “The Fed after the 50bps rate drop announcement chatted about there being two more rate drops by the end of the […]
Uncategorized Exploring the Fall Colors on the Alpine Loop The colors came late this year to the Wasatch. That gave us time to get up the American Fork Canyon and take them all in. My wife, Cyndee, and I thought we’d take a Sunday drive, but as we approached the mouth of the canyon we were met with a huge line of cars. It […]
Uncategorized I’m Adding Case Studies to My Marketing While Offering It to Other Industries Case Studies are a great way to tell a company’s story. I’m adding it to my marketing. Back in the day, long before I took my first class to get my real estate license, I edited the real estate section in the Palm Springs, Calif. Desert Sun.  It was more than just a section. It […]
Uncategorized Rising Interest Rates Are Changing the Landscape Single-family home prices in Utah County rose 17.5% the past 12 months, but now that interest rates have gone up and are continuing to climb the market is slowing. Projections are that single-family home prices will continue to climb over the next year, but at a much smaller pace, around 5%.  The average price for […]
Uncategorized Writing about celebrity homes a way to capture interest Back in the 1980s, when I was real estate editor for the Desert Sun in Palm Springs, Calif., I had the privilege of writing about many of the celebrity homes when they went on the market. Among them was the late Hollywood studio system kingpin Darryl Zanuck’s estate. The two-story, Spanish-styled home built on six […]
Uncategorized Stats show bidding wars are slowing down Did you know that people keep records on bidding wars? A bidding war occurs when two or more people bid on the same property. The brokerage Redfin has been logging bidding wars since April 2020.  Its latest stats say that the number of bidding wars across the nation are declining. For example, April 2021 saw 73.1 […]
Uncategorized New loan program gets sellers off the fence Our financing partner, Guaranteed Rate Affinity, just introduced a new program that should help folks who want to buy another home but won’t list their property right now for fear of being homeless if they can’t buy what they want. They don’t want to be a buyer in this competitive environment.  Called a cross-collateralization loan, […]
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Uncategorized Real Estate Training Never Stops I was in real estate for awhile before my eyes were opened to how much training it takes to be a successful Realtor. In Utah, 18 hours of continuing education is required every two years just to keep your license. That doesn’t even count the 120 hours it took to get it in the first […]

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