What is the HUD Good Neighbor Next Door program and is it available in Denver? The Good Neighbor next door program is a terrific program through HUD, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, and luckily it is available in Denver and all of Colorado. The Good Neighbor program offers [...]

Please join your friends, neighbors and local merchants for February HUNI Hour at a HOT Highland location......Root Down! Enjoy award winning, free appetizers and amazing drink specials......$3 margs & select draft beers, $5 house red or white wine, $4 mojitos, œ42 below vodka rosemary, lavender lemonade AND seasonal boca loco caiprihanas!! [...]

I want to buy a home in Denver. Is getting an Adjustable Rate Mortgage (ARM)a good idea? ARMs certainly have a bad reputation right now, and in many ways, deservedly so. ARMs accounted for 70% of all mortgages issued during the boom and have been blamed by many for the bust. But now it appears that ARM's are making a comeback and Freddie Mac [...]

With Valentine's Day happening next week, Trulia asked 1,200 American couples - currently married or living together - to rank 11 home features based on what they though would best enhance their relationship.As a Denver-area Realtor who shows a lot of homes to a lot of couples, I found some of the results to be spot-on, while others to be [...]

When are there going to be new apartments in Highlands? For quite awhile now, there has been talk about what is going on with the strip mall on the corner of Zuni and Caithness Place in LOHI. The strip mall currently there certainly doesn't fit in with the rapidly changing neighborhood and when the metal fence went up surrounding the [...]

What are HUD homes andare there a lot of HUD homes in Denver? A HUD home is a residential home acquired by HUD, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, as a result of a foreclosure action on an FHA-insured mortgage. HUD becomes the property owner and offers it for sale to recover the loss on the foreclosure claim. And since [...]

Trulia.com just released a great interactive website tooi for home buyers to figure out whether it makes sense to buy a home instead of renting. Trulia's Q1 2011 Rent vs. Buy Index provides guidance to help you make a smart decision on whether it is better to rent or buy in each of America's 50 largest cities by population. The 'Rent:Buy [...]

Is the recession over in Colorado? It seems things are getting better, but is this really the case? According to a new study released at the 18th Annual Forecast Breakfast on Wednesday, the answeris a resounding, YES! œI am unabashedly telling you this cycle has turned, said [...]