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6 Pre-sale Home Improvements Sellers Wish They Had Never Made
Every seller wants their home to stand out from the crowd, which often means partaking in some shiny new improvements before placing it on the market. Sometimes owners go overboard, however, and the r...
Hollywood Riviera Celebrates New Community Markers
Riviera residents celebrated the 90th birthday of our beautiful community with a ribbon cutting for two new historical markers. Created by the Friends of the Hollywood Riviera, the signage identifies ...
Upgrade Your Home’s Curb Appeal to Attract Buyers
These days, you need more than a for-sale sign out front and a touch of curb appeal to attract potential buyers. They’ll likely being viewing listings on the Internet before ever scheduling a showing,...
7 Things Every House Should Have if You’re into Entertaining
If you love hosting dinner parties, holiday gatherings, and New Year’s Eve bashes, then you’ll want to make sure your next house should have if you’re into entertaining easy. According to Realto...
Questions About New Homeowner Etiquette
You’ve successfully completed the home-buying process. Now it’s time to navigate some tricky etiquette rules centered around being a new homeowner. For instance, how to pull off a housewarming party w...
How to Feel Secure When Getting a Mortgage
Funneling a large portion of your money toward a home can be nerve-rattling, but Realtor.com offers some advice that can help you navigate the scarier parts of the mortgage and home-buying process. &n...
How to Find Your Dream Home
How to find your dream home is exciting, yet an all-consuming, adventure. While it’s fun to swipe through listings and attend every open house in your area, it sometimes can leave you feeling like you...
Are These Home Features a Waste of Cash?
No one likes to overpay when buying a home. So, if you want to make sure every home-buying dollar counts, check out these home features Realtor.com says often inspire sellers to boost their price. Whi...
Five Tips for Buying a House in Your 20’s
Between entry-level salaries, student loans and the desire to just be young and have fun, twentysomethings often think buying a house is beyond their reach. Not so quick! It is entirely possible to bu...
7 Tips for Selling Your Home in the Fall
Spring and Summer might be the top home-selling seasons, but Fall also is a great time to sell your home because there’s typically less competition and the market is still very active. So, if your hou...
4 Homebuying Moves You May Not Realize You Have to Make
Purchasing a house takes time, patience and careful planning. Many moving parts involved in the process, and sometimes buyers miss crucial steps—which can cost them big-time. Toward that end, Realtor....
Richardson Middle School Students Enjoy New Gymnasium
September means time to head back to school, and for students of Richardson Middle School, that also means enjoying the campus’ new physical education facilities. In April, Richardson celebrated the g...
Hollywood Riviera Marks 90th Birthday with 2 New Signs
This year marks a milestone in the history of the Hollywood Riviera – the community’s 90th birthday. Nine decades ago developer Clifford Reid created this beautiful community which reminded him so viv...
6 Easy Curb-Appeal Tricks That Will Cost You Less Than $200
Before you even think about selling your home, you have to make it sparkle—after all, prospective buyers will be peering in every corner, closet and cabinet they can get into looking for some curb app...
Getting ready to move? Here are 7 Qualities of a Good Neighbor
Getting ready to move into a new home? Know that to have good neighbors, you must first be one yourself. Here, Zillow offers seven techniques that can help win the approval of your entire neighborhood...
The Biggest 5 Mistakes Buyers Make, [According to Real Estate Agents]
Because it difficult navigating the real estate market, it’s only natural that some people are going to make mistakes. With that in mind, Forbes asked industry professionals to share their experiences...
Today’s Kitchen Trends That Millenials Want
Thirty-five percent of millennials who own a home or are likely to purchase a home in the next few years said the kitchen is the most important room when it comes to the house hunt, according to a nat...
Offer Was Rejected? This Might Be the Real Reason Why
You’ve found a house you love and made a good offer. Unfortunately, it was rejected. What gives? Although home sellers don’t have to explain why they pass up what seems like a perfectly fine offer, th...
6 Ways Buyers Can Stand Out, Beat the Competition and Buy the House
In a seller’s market, there can be many home buyers and too few houses. If you’re a buyer facing this dilemma, that means you need to figure out how to beat the competition and buy the house. Typicall...