Cedar Rapids Real Estate Blog

Today is Friday, April 18, 2008 and the Cedar Rapids Real Estate market has never been stronger!  Sure Iowa and Cedar Rapids bares their fair share of burdens regarding foreclosures, sub prime lending, and tightening of loan qualifiers.  However, the market in Cedar Rapids is fairly strong.  Inventory for Buyers is increasing ...

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 one of thousands preparing your house over the winter months to place on the market in the spring, congratulations!  The market at this point and time is slow and so it's a good time to make necessary repairs and replacements.  When you market your house with a Realtor, you want to make sure that your house is in A+ ...

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 ...

The Housing and Urban Development center has published a wonderful article on their website entitled 100 Questions and Answers for Home Buyers and I thought I'd pass it onto my readers.  This website is also a great one to bookmark.  The actual website link is www.hud.gov  but the article can be found by clicking on this link: ...

This is an article from Ilyce R. Glink, contributing writer for Inman News on Home Buyer Resolutions for 2007.    Very good financial information for buyers.  Also visit her wonderful website at www.thinkglink.com .  Here is the link to this great article:  http://www.inman.com/hstory.aspx?ID=60333  Enjoy! For ...

If you have ever been on the fence about buying a home, now might be the time to slide off that fence and buy!  Interest rates are nearing an all time record low, and I'll get to that in a minute. If you are considering buying a house whether it be first time or not, here are some things to consider.Seller's know that on average, ...

Have you ever heard the phrase, timing is everything?  Well, I don't know if this necessarily applies in this situation or not;Mark let's see.  Traditionally, the real estate "season" really heats up in the springtime with families wanting to prepare, sell, and be moved into their new home by the time the new school ...