by kramoltz@hotmail.com | Apr 2, 2021 | Preparing a Home for Sale, Selling Your Home
A crucial element of home sale preparation is decluttering. Decluttering isn’t staging. Staging is bringing in furniture, lighting and accessories that were not previously present in the home (Read my 3 part series on staging for more on what staging is and isn’t)....
by kramoltz@hotmail.com | Mar 26, 2021 | Arizona and Its Amenities
There are about 62,000 properties with an elevated risk of flooding in the metro Phoenix area. In the Scottsdale area – where SimplySOLD does a lot of work, the most impact is in the 85255 area code. To figure out if a property is in a flood plain, and if so, what...
by kramoltz@hotmail.com | Mar 18, 2021 | Home Buying, Real Estate Facts & Figures
Historically 25% to 30% of all homes sold Maricopa County during any given year were newly built. As the chart below shows, this trend abruptly changed in 2007, with only 14.6% of all homes sold in Maricopa County in January 2021 being new builds – approximately half...
by kramoltz@hotmail.com | Mar 12, 2021 | Home Buying
Home buyers need to move fast if they want to spend less. Delayed purchases will only result in higher monthly mortgage payments as prices (and maybe interest rates) rise. In the metro Phoenix marketplace prices have rose significantly in the last few years making...
by kramoltz@hotmail.com | Mar 5, 2021 | Animal Stories (mostly Dogs in the Military)
The Unbreakable Bond. After being taken into captivity, Judy bonded with Frank Williams. He taught her the skills she needed to survive in Japanese captivity and in the Indonesian camp. Eventually the prisoners were shipped to Singapore. Frank was told that Judy was...
