Greetings and welcome 2018! 2017 bestowed another solid increase on the real estate market in St Louis, and across the country. Our local residential market notched a 4% annual gain, similar to the past 4 years, and pushed the average sale price for hom...
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With over 60% of the public owning their own home, and a high percentage of the rest stating a desire to, the interest rates on mortgages should keep your interest. With the holidays, cold weather, Super Bowl and stock market plunge, it was easy to miss t...
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Yes, another inspection has made its way onto the "common" list for home sales, the sewer. Costing $180-200, a plumber or sewer company inserts a flexible probe with a camera and light at the end, and records a video of the sewer interior from the main dr...
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ow much brass is in your home today? And is it the newer - softer finish?....or the 80s - high polish style? I have not seen a groundswell for bringing brass back in St Louis, at least not yet. I'm sure some will say it is all the rage, and others not so ...
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Scammers have caught up to the real estate transaction. Most of us are familiar with having our email hacked, or know others who have. This is how the home purchase wire fraud begins, by scammers trolling and hacking individual's email accounts. Although ...
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Kitchen appliance colors and styles change like everything else. When one goes kaput, you need to decide quickly what to replace it with. When you are renovating, you have a little more time and can match as desired. What will it be? Silver stainless st...
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Every few years I re-visit wallpaper - ah yes, good ole wallpaper. And every few years I say "Don't do it". Even though I maintain that as a recommendation, I am starting to see a crack in acceptability IF, and I mean IF, it is a new style. If it is an ol...
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With the difficulty that many buyers are running into these days finding suitable housing before it sells to someone else, here is an alternative: New Construction! The pace of building new homes is about half of what they were in our 2005 heyday, but s...
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Edit Delete Blog Space 9-12-18, How Many Ways can a Basement Leak? Let me count the ways. Having listed, sold, shown and attended inspections on many, many homes over 28 years of selling them, I have experienced 18 ways for water to find its way into ...
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Go into a recently finished lower level/ basement and look up. Will you see painted drywall or ceiling tiles on a grid, known as a drop or suspended ceiling? Chances are good it will be drywall. How about one from 20 years ago? Chances are it is a dro...
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