Cedar Rapids Real Estate Blog

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, ...

Being a former elementary school teacher, I couldn't go very long without adding some content for the kiddos, and this site has it!  Websites for children under six, children seven and older, preschoolers, and gradeschoolers.  I'll add content from time to time, and delete links that are no longer active.   Kids, make ...

Have you updated your computers for this Sunday's Daylight Savings Time switch?  If not, you need to. This year, we're springing forward three weeks early.  Typically, we turn our clocks one hour ahead on the first Sunday in April.  But the government changed the rules without much fanfare back in 2005. The reason is to ...

When you apply for a mortgage loan and are approved as a buyer, this is your ticket to buy.  This gives you the clout to drive around with your Cedar Rapid's Realtor, view houses, choose a house, bid on a house, and buy that house.  Without credit reporting agencies or top loan officers like Jeff Harding of Skogman Mortgage ...

I guess Realtors will say anything right to get you to work with them.  They'll say, "Interest rates are at an all time low, better lock in your rate now and buy that home."   Or, you might hear the opposite; "Interest rates are on the rise." (As you see the Realtor's hand gesture upwards towards the ...