Preparing Your Vacation Rental for the Perfect Guest Experience
Owning a vacation rental can be a lucrative venture, but ensuring that guests have a memorable and comfortable stay requires careful preparation.
May 28, 2024
May 05, 2023
Converting Residences to Businesses - Part 3 - Professional Firms
Having looked at using a portion of your residential property for retail or health care services, we now turn toward other professional small business uses -- architects, engineers, consultants, attorneys and similar enterprises.
May 02, 2023
Converting Residences to Businesses - Part 2 - Medical & Dental Offices
In the last posting, we considered some of the issues surrounding the use of a residence as a retail establishment. This installment again looks at converting a part of a house for business purposes --
April 28, 2023
Converting Residences to Businesses - Part 1 - Retail Space
The COVID-19 pandemic responses gave many workers a taste for doing their jobs at home. Without commutes and confrontations, the workday became much more civilized and much less stressful.
April 25, 2023
Banking Failures & Their Impact On the Housing Market - Part 2 - The REO Dilemma
In the last post, we looked at how bank failures can lead investors to bonds which, subsequently, pressure mortgage lenders to lower their interest rates. In this installment, we examine the implosion of a bank and how its real estate assets are consequently impacted.
April 21, 2023
Banking Failures & Their Impact On the Housing Market - Part 1 Interest Rates & Lending
Safety and security are core human aspirations. These instincts show up in many areas of our lives, especially our finances and investments. Most everyone keeps their hard-earned money in a bank, where brick, mortar and electronic safeguards secure it for later use.
March 28, 2023
The Pros and Cons of Buying a New Home vs. a Resale Home
For those blessed with the capacity to purchase a home, a number of choices abound: geography, number of bedrooms, attached/detached garage, finished vs. unfinished basement etc. For all these options, however, a more fundamental question challenges buyers.
March 21, 2023
Latest Innovations and Trends in Home Building
What is the American Dream if not a house and a yard at which to raise a family and enjoy the fruits of one's hard work? News outlets and policy makers talk much of how to make that dream more affordable for people.
March 17, 2023
The Current State of The Homebuilding Industry
The last few years took a toll on many sectors of the U.S. economy, home building prominent among them.