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Tips For Saving on Household Utlities During Winter

Winter is here, and things are starting to get cold. With the cold also comes the need to heat the house. If you do things right, heating a home doesn’t have to be as expensive. Some simple tips to help you reduce your heating bill include opening blinds on the east side of the house [...]

First Time Buyers Thoughts Towards Home Buying

First-time buyers are naturally very nervous about entering the market. This was true during sky-high interest rates in the 1980s. It was true when the real estate market was booming in 2005. It is still true today.Newbies to the market worry about the cost of buying, the process itself, and of course what it will [...]

Buying a Home? You May Want To Consider A Radon Test as Part of Your Due Dilligence

My wife and I recently made an offer on a home in Smithfield Utah. Unlike my current house, this home has a full basement. Knowing that most homes on the eastern bench in Utah have high radon levels, and being that I plan to live in this house for a very long time, I decided [...]

New Logan Home Search

I’m just testing out a little home search widget. It’s not the MLS, and won’t show you all of the MLS listings in Utah, but it does show a few listings that are for sale by owner. the content of these listings are provided by the online classified site OODLE.

Its a Buyers Market and Buyers Know It

Buyers know that its a buyers market and they know that there are good deals out there. However, even when properties are good deals, buyers want an even better deal on the already good deal. They want to offer far less than list price, even when list price is far less than market value. That’s [...]

Watch Out For Offers from “Fake Buyers”

It doesn’t make any logical sense, but there are people out there who like to pretend they have large sums of money, and are purchasing high end homes, when really they have no business buying real estate at all. Right now going around Cache Valley is a guy named Shawn Phillips, who claims to have [...]

Inexpensive Ways to Help Your Home Sell

With the current sellers market, people are desperate to try anything they can to try and sell their Utah Homes. One huge problem sellers are facing with decreased home values and increased competition is being able to improve their sell ability without going broke. Many sellers have very little equity, and very little room to [...]

Solutions For Too Little Space

One thing I have a problem with is storage. Whether it be food storage, junk storage, or toy storage, I never seem to have enough space. Here is some advice from the monthly Cornerstone Real Estate Newsletter regarding storage. Do you have too much to store and too little space? If you’re like many homeowners, [...]

Different Types of Mortgage Calculators

When you dream of buying a home and get it financed, the first thing that you ask yourself is how much mortgage can you afford. To determine your affordability you can take help of a loan mortgage calculator that uses different scenarios to help you make a smart financial decision. What is a loan mortgage [...]

Cornerstone #1 Logan Real Estate Brokerage

The numbers are in, and for the first quarter of 2010 Cornerstone Real Estate Professionals is the number one Logan Utah Real Estate brokerage in terms of home sales. Even more impressive is the huge advantage Cornerstone has for the number of buyer transactions among the major Cache Valley Real Estate brokerages. For the second [...]