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Uncategorized The Appraisal Came In $40,000 Low. Here’s What Happened Next. There’s a version of this story where my sellers lose forty thousand dollars. Here’s why that didn’t happen. I was the listing agent. The appraisal came in $40,000 below our contract price, and my first question wasn’t “How do we fix this?” It was “Is this appraisal actually accurate?” I didn’t think it was. So […]
Uncategorized What Does It Actually Cost to Live in Ames, Iowa? If you’re relocating to Ames — for Iowa State, for a job, for a fresh start — the question underneath all the other questions is usually: can I actually afford to live there? Short answer: Ames tends to run below the national average on overall cost of living, generally cited somewhere in the range of […]
Uncategorized How Much House Can You Actually Afford in Ames or Story County? Before you look at a single listing, there’s one conversation that saves everyone time: what can you actually afford, not what a website’s calculator guesses you can afford. Those are two different numbers, and mixing them up is the single most common thing I see trip up first-time buyers. A calculator looks at income and […]
Uncategorized What’s My Ames Home Actually Worth Right Now? The question I get more than any other is some version of: what’s my house actually worth? Here’s the honest answer: it depends on more than an algorithm can see. As of mid-2026, homes in the Ames area have been listing at a median price in the high $300,000s, spending roughly five weeks on the […]
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