Cedar Rapids Real Estate Blog

If you're a seasoned home seller like myself (I've sold four homes of my own, and am about to sell my fifth), you should have by proxy learned some hard lessons about what not do so in the sale of your home.  Most home sellers learn these by experience, and in this case, experience unfortunately means loss of money.  Home ...

If you are looking for specific demographic information on Cedar Rapids/Marion zip codes, goes to www.zipskinny.com and simply put in the zip code you are curious about to get information.  If you relocating and do not know the zip codes for this area here they are: Cedar Rapids: 52401, 52402, 52403, 52404, 52405 Marion: 52302 Enjoy, ...

Once a year, I like to blog about me.  This is the only time that this blog will be all about me, but I think it's important to know who you are working with, especially when it comes to one of the largest transactions you will ever undertake in your life.  If you want to cut to the chase and miss a great article, you can go to ...

Statistics always play a huge role in the real estate game, but now, they are huge!  Almost weekly, there is a report on the national news of the great decline in the housing market and how everything is collapsing because of sub prime lender tightening of the belt, higher interest rates, foreclosures looming in the near future, etc. Well, ...

One more resource for relocating to Cedar Rapids: www.zipcodestats.com   and www.zipcodefacts.com (2 domains, one great resource). This beta site offers desirable demographic information for buyers. You can search by city, area, state, and zipcode; or simply browse by state or zip code. If you select a state or zip code, information has ...

I will never forget the week I moved to Austin, Texas from my hometown of Cedar Rapids.  I felt so alone, and lost in a city that would later become like a second home to my family.  Being a former elementary school teacher, I am an information gatherer.  Any and all information about new and foreign places enables me and gives me ...

When you are relocating to another state, it is a harrowing experience at best.  You are not only uprooting you and your significant other's lives but your childrens as well.  I'm speaking from experience here as I've moved to Austin, Texas in 1985 and then moved back to the Cedar Rapids area in 2004.  Five homes later, ...

Once the holidays are over and we enter the new year, the market slowly starts to heat up until it's red hot in the spring, continuing this frenzied pace well into the summer months.  If you are looking around now at Open Houses and your house is still on the market, are you prepared?  If you find the house of your dreams and you are ...

I wonder all the time about the folks that visit this website.  Where are they from?  What kind of jobs do they have?  Are they moving right away or in the next year, or somewhere in between?  Well, now it's my turn.  I want you, the visitor to my site to know who I am at the core.  This post will address all of ...

There are wonderful lenders in town who specialize in different types of loans for different situations.  For a complete list of the best of the best, contact me at 319-329-5988 and I'll put you in touch with Cedar Rapid's finest!What mortgage loans can you offer me for my specific situation?  Are these loans popular and ...