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Move-Up Buyers: Here’s What Actually Happens When Rates Drop

If you’re a move-up buyer waiting for rates to drop before you make a move, I want to walk you through something I tell almost every client in this exact spot, because it usually changes how they think about timing. I know what you’re waiting for: lower rates, lower prices, and the perfect house showing […]
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What Actually Scares a Realtor on Halloween

It’s Halloween week, so let me tell you what actually scares a Realtor. It isn’t ghosts. Ring cameras. If you’ve ever had a seller’s doorbell camera pick up a showing conversation, you know the feeling. Water in the basement. Usually discovered right when everyone thought the inspection was behind us. “I did the electrical myself.” […]
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Looking at Slater? Meet Stepping Stones Child Development Center

When people are looking at homes in Slater, there’s a question I hear a lot, and it isn’t about the house. It’s about local services, including childcare. For a long time, that was a real challenge in a lot of smaller Central Iowa towns, Slater included. That’s changed. Stepping Stones Child Development Center opened its […]
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Iowa Has Fence Viewers. I Had No Idea.

I’ve been selling real estate for over ten years, and last month I ran into an Iowa property law I had never heard of. A neighboring owner insisted my sellers were responsible for fencing between two properties. That sent us somewhere I’d never been. We had to figure out who owned the fence, where the […]

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