Real Estate

Inwood Mortgage Home of the Week: This Hamptons-Style Home Will Trick You Into Thinking You Are… in the Hamptons!

By Candy Evans / February 20, 2014 /

If you are a regular reader of this blog, you know that we kind of like us some vacation homes. In fact, we are doing the happy-dance over at SecondShelters: vacation-home sales in the U.S. are rebounding. The National Association of Realtors tells us sales rose 10 percent in 2012, after tumbling — no make…

Meet Todd Macintire, Grandson of Architect Charles Dilbeck

By Candy Evans / February 20, 2014 /

Todd Macintire is in town, visiting his favorite person in the world, his grandmother Pat Dilbeck, with him here inside one of the “four sisters” on Shenandoah at Douglas. Todd, who grew up in Dallas and graduated from Highland Park High School, lives in Brooklyn now where he owns a retouching business, 4cimaging.com. He is…

On SecondShelters.com: Will Legal Toking Get Colorado Real Estate Smoking?

By Joanna England / February 19, 2014 /

If the lines out the door of the Breckenridge Cannabis Club are any indication, the new Colorado laws legalizing recreational marijuana sales are making ganja a golden commodity.

But will the new trade in Mary Jane mean more sales for Colorado Realtors? We break down the news from around the state to see where getting your Rocky Mountain High will mean higher sales on SecondShelters.com.

Will Legal Pot Make Colorado Ski Homes a Smoking Commodity? Realtors Doubt Toking Will Lead to a New Joint

By Joanna England / February 19, 2014 /

We’ve seen photos and stories from Colorado ski towns such as Aspen and Breckenridge showing vacationers filing lines out the door at marijuana shops, so of course, we had to wonder what kind of impact legal pot could have on Colorado real estate. Are more buyers putting it in their pipes and smoking it?

Turns out the Colorado Association of Realtors was wondering the exact same thing. After all, with 136 pot retailers in the state as of Dec. 2013, buyers were throwing green after green, eventually causing a state-wide shortage of smokables. But is recreational marijuana a boon for Colorado real estate, or a burden?

Debunking The Top 10 Myths About Realtors, And Why Being an Agent Isn’t All Roses All The Time

By Kathryn Roan / February 19, 2014 /

We’ve all heard these questions or statements at one time or another, so I decided to answer them in an easy-to-digest list you can forward to all your associates and misinformed friends. Whether buying, selling, leasing, or looking, many clients or prospective clients have offered at least one of these statements to us, and we’ve…