• Retiring and thinking of downsizing your home?,grandrapids-realestate

    Retiring and thinking of downsizing your home?

    When the last time you bought a home was far enough back that your mortgage is paid off, or nearly so, can we give you some advice? A lot has changed in the real estate industry since the 1980s, in both the selling and buying process. First, you’re no longer looking for areas with good schools for t

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  • Relocation: How To Buy A Home When You Don’t Know The Area,grandrapids-realestate

    Relocation: How To Buy A Home When You Don’t Know The Area

    Conflicted: It’s the perfect description of how homeowners feel when faced with the reality of relocating from one city to another. It’s both exciting and mind-numbing, frightening yet courageous and it brings up feelings of both melancholy and elation. Moving from one home to another is a life-disr

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  • Building a home? Go green and ensure its future value,grandrapids-realestate

    Building a home? Go green and ensure its future value

    In all the excitement of choosing your lot, your appliance package and all the other extras that go into buying a new home, something important may fall through the cracks: your new home’s future resale value. Sure, it seems a bit early to be thinking of selling when you haven’t even moved into the

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