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Spring Into Action: Your Ultimate Guide to Spring Cleaning

With the arrival of spring, it's time to shake off the cobwebs of winter and embrace a fresh start. Spring cleaning is more than just tidying up; it's an opportunity to refresh your home, declutter your space, and create a clean and welcoming environment for the season ahead. Whether you're a seasoned cleaner or new to the spring cleaning tradition, this ultimate guide will help you tackle every room in your home with ease.

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Benefit of Using a Buyer’s Agency

Buyer’s Agency was a foreign concept where I was growing up. If someone wanted to buy a house, they simply would call the number on the sign out front, and say they wanted to walk through the house, and if they liked it they would make an offer. This still happens today, but most buyers use what’s called a buyer’s agent when they want to buy real estate. A buyer’s agent advocates for their needs, clears up confusion, and finds properties that can’t simply be searched up online.

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Preparing Your Home for Winter: Essential Checklist for Homeowners

As the days grow shorter and temperatures drop, it's time to start thinking about winterizing your home. The cold season can be harsh on your property, causing potential damage and escalating energy bills. By taking a few key steps, you can ensure your home remains comfortable, efficient, and well-protected throughout the winter months. In this blog post, we'll discuss important tasks every homeowner should consider before the winter sets in.

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Essential Fall Home Maintenance Tips for a Cozy and Efficient Season

As the leaves change colors and the temperatures drop, it's time to prepare your home for the upcoming fall season. Fall is a wonderful time of year, but it also brings specific challenges for homeowners. From keeping your home warm and cozy to protecting it from potential hazards, here are some essential fall home maintenance tips to help you get your property ready for the autumn months.

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Growing Your Net Worth with Real Estate

Growing your net worth with real estate is one of the FASTEST and most EFFICIENT ways of compounding your net worth. Your net worth is simple; your assets minus your liabilities. For most people this is a pretty basic concept, but for a homeowner looking to grow and expand their net worth, this can be a game changer!

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It's Time To Spring Clean!

You’ve put away the Christmas tree and your new year’s resolutions have faded. Now that the holidays are over, it’s time to consider Spring Cleaning. I like to “Spring Clean” in the house in February. It’s still dark early and cold enough out to make this a good indoor project. Once Spring hits, I’ll be outside in the gardens tending to the flower beds.

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Buying A Home In A High-Interest Rate Environment

For most of the last decade, interest rates were low, and home prices were high, which meant people could afford a house if they could get financing. However, inflation has heated up over the past few months, and interest rates have followed suit. If you're looking to buy a house in 2023, the interest rates will likely be higher than last year.

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Three Reasons To Buy A House In Winter

Winter has always been my favorite season in Manhattan. Enjoying the lights on Poyntz Avenue, ice skating at City Park, watching college basketball, lighting a fire in the fireplace, the occasional layer of snow, and wearing a stocking hat are a few of my favorite winter things! Purchasing a home in winter can also be a great experience that benefits you and your family. Understanding why winter buying can be advantageous will help guide your home purchasing decision. Below are practical reasons why winter can be a great time to buy a home.

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Apps in Aggieville

Together with Kansas State University sororities, fraternities, and participating Aggieville businesses, The Alms Group hosted a fun-filled event for students, families, and community members!

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Staging Your Home to Sell, Does it Work?

You only get one first impression. Did you know that buyers are more likely to make an appointment to see a property after viewing a home online that has been staged? In today's competitive market, buyers are paying top dollar, and according to NAR (National Association of Realtors), buyer's agents said staging a home to sell increased the price by 1% to 5% compared to homes that were not staged to sell.

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How InsureTechs Are Changing the Insurance World As We Know

The insurance industry is notorious for being behind the curve when it comes to keeping up with the times. There's a lot of "that's how it's always been done" methodology even when data doesn't support specific guidelines or processes. These outdated practices cause-not only frustration for consumers-but frustration among agents and many of those within the insurance industry as well.

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What Our Current Market Means for Sellers

There’s no doubt things in the real estate industry have changed over the past few years. One big change we’ve experienced locally is the consistently rapid speed of the real estate market. With continued low to modest interest rates over the past several years, the buyer pool has grown immensely while residential development and active listings have struggled to keep up.

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