Mike Taylor

The Importance of Good Pictures of Your Home for Sale

It is common practice when you're putting your home on the market to have you or your Realtor take pictures of the interior and exterior of your home to use in marketing your house to potential buyers.  While this can be a fabulous way to showcase t... Read >

More Foreclosures on the Horizon in Q4

2009 may just go down in the record books as "the year of the foreclosure" for homeowners across the country and it doesn't look like things are going to improve any time soon. The number of foreclosures hit record highs by the midsummer at over one m... Read >

Finding the Perfect Location for Your New Home

When you're looking to buy a home it seems like everyone is telling you that location is the most important thing and to a great extent this is true. Homes can be renovated or even torn down and rebuilt if you have the money to do it but you can't rea... Read >

Successful Bidding on a New Home

Currently the housing situation in many areas of the country is such that sellers aren't just finding one buyer for their home; multiple buyers are making offers on a variety of homes. This is great news for sellers, but can make things frustrating fo... Read >

Uncluttered Condo Living

Whether you're living in a condominium or are just looking at buying one in the future, one of the biggest considerations to make when living in a condo is where you're going to put all of your belongings so that they don't take over your home. While ... Read >

Why You Should Hire a Realtor

Unless you have experience in real estate you likely are unaware of the differences between a real estate agent and a Realtor ®, most people use the terms as synonyms even though they are not equal. This isn't to say that using a real estate agent wh... Read >

Home Buying: How Does Your Credit Score Rate?

Buying a home is something most people dream of being able to do at some point in their life. All you have to do is save enough money for a down payment and you're in. Right? Maybe not. If your credit rating is not up to snuff, the road to your dream may ... Read >

Home Staging: Important as Ever in the Current Economy

With the current plummeting home values, you might think that now is not the best time to fork out extra money on home staging to sell your house that's going on the market. There are two ways that you can go about this, depending on how much you can ... Read >

Remodelling Your New Home Without the Headaches

With all the great deals to be found right now in real estate, people are buying homes at fabulous prices; many of these fabulously priced homes need a little bit of work either because they're older homes or because of damage done to them while stand... Read >

Bug-Proofing Your Home: If there's one, there's one hundred

So, you've just moved in to your dream home. Everything's in its proper place after days of unpacking and you're just putting the last of the dishes away in the cupboards. You lift the cardboard box off the counter to throw it away and you see…. ANTS!!... Read >

Keep Your Dog in Your Yard Without Unattractive Fencing

A fence extension can keep your dog safely in your yard without you having to increase the height of the fence or resort to chains or shock collars. Fence extensions are not unattractive and many are easily removed and transported to a new fence if the ow... Read >

Want that Home Buyer Tax Credit for a New Built Home? Buy Now!

Home buyers who are building their new homes and hope to qualify for the $8K tax credit should know that they have to be moved into their home by December 1st in order to qualify. A sales contract won't do it! The credit is good until November 30, 2009, w... Read >

Make Your Next Vacation a Real Estate Safari

Before making our big cross-country move, we got our house hunting done a few months before, while on vacation. We weren't just there to relax, we were on a mission to discover this area soon to be our new home. It gave us a good idea of how much we'd en... Read >

Pros and Cons of Buying a Foreclosure Property

In 2008, an average of one in six homeowners owed more than their homes were worth. Over 2.3 million homes went into default or were seized by lenders. As bad as that sounds, there is a bright side. Foreclosure properties contributed to the 6.5% increase... Read >

Investing in Rental Property for Fun and Profit

If you are looking for a way to create a steady income stream for yourself or to build equity without paying rent out of your own pocket, rental property may be a good option for you.  Many people are enjoying significant returns on their investments ... Read >