If your parents have not passed away, you will need to have them sign Power of Attorney to give you authority to handle the transaction for them. If you need help finding an attorney to assist with this, we…
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In addition to $600 checks for eligible adults and children, the December 2020 stimulus bill includes several provisions that help older Americans. For one, there’s money for rental assistance, and the eviction moratorium was extended to January 31, 2021. The…
The SECURE Act (Setting Every Community Up for Retirement Enhancement Act of 2019), aimed at improving people’s retirement security, was signed into law at the end of 2019. Some key changes of the SECURE Act (http://bit.ly/2HwrLfV) affect Individual Retirement…
If you are feeling like there are just not enough houses on the market this spring, you are not imagining things. A recent article on Realtor.com outlined the problem. In short: From 2009 (the slump) to today new construction…
Outdoors Landscaping & Gardening Curb Appeal Don’t let badly designed or maintained landscaping wreck your home’s curb appeal. Here are pitfalls to avoid. Clumsy, neglected, and hodgepodge landscaping not only hurts your home’s curb appeal, it can cut the…
I just finished reading an article about improvements that do not impact home value – and could not agree more. Why? Because most of these “improvements” fall under the category of maintenance – painting the house, new roof, new…
WalletHub has ranked the best and worst small cities in the U.S. Lots of positive news for Massachusetts. Northampton ranked the highest MA town on the overall list at #8. The rest of the Top 10 are: 14…
Given the winters we had over the past couple of years it is understandable that sellers would think the market is slow this time of year. But our office just has a brisk weekend of Open House attendance –…
Realtor Magazine just did their assessment of this study and the best point they made is that First impressions are important. The replacements that offer the greatest payback are the ones that are most obvious to buyers when they first…
With the prime selling season right around the corner, this is the time to fix things and make the improvements required to get top dollar for your home when you put it on the market. Factors to consider when…