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Top Tips for Newbies in the Spring Housing Market – The housing market in some areas may make your home search more difficult. Be aware of what the market looks like before you decide to go house-hunting. Here are some other tips if you’re new to the housing market: Be Prepared to Make an Offer Get […]

6 Tips for Planning a Bathroom Renovation This Spring – Some might say it’s just a bathroom, but to you, it’s a retreat. The only problem is that yours is not giving off the vibe you envision for this in-home getaway. In other words, it’s time for a remodel.  It’s certainly a big project to take on, […]

6 Things You Must Do Before Buying a Home – Spring means a hot home buying market is just beginning to heat up! We buy distressed homes or homes that homeowners need to sell quickly. For consumers, buying a home is a huge investment—probably the most significant purchase of your life. It’s not something you […]

Ways to Raise Your Home’s Value This is a concern of many home sellers – what improvements can we make to increase the value of our home so we can quickly sell it.  An advantage of buying through us is we buy your home AS IS and we buy it on your timeline – with […]

11 Reasons Why Your Home Isn’t Selling Before you even read the rest of this blog, if you are a distressed home owner and you just want to give that beast of burden off of your plate – sell your home as is for cash, just contact us at CaneStar Homes – we can close […]

Home Buying Military Move Tips – Here are five smart strategies for a fast-paced military move – The DC area is a particular hot area for military clients. The military move is unlike any other – yours truly did seven military moves in my first 14 years of service – every move was a great move; […]

Your Moving Checklist: 15 Things to Do Before Moving Into Your New Home – I discovered a very nice moving checklist from Daniel Bortz over at Realtor.Com – Welcome to the ultimate moving checklist—a list of all the things you should do before moving into your new home. Let’s face it: With all the excitement of […]

How to Negotiate Your Rent Increase – hmmm – a strange topic for a real estate investor?  We also have expertise in residential real estate sales. In this area, we have acquired two new clients on the tenant side and on the listing side of this process.  In the former, the family came to us […]

Spring Cleaning Your Rental Property: One of our CaneStar Homes Realtors has a listing where he is helping a client prepare her home for it’s next tenant.  This blog comes just in time to help.  In some locations across the country, March snowfalls are breaking records, so it’s strange to already be talking about spring. But the […]

6 Home Maintenance Tasks – Forgetting These? – In all likelihood, your home is the biggest investment you’ll make in your life. To protect that investment, turn to regular maintenance tasks to ensure that your home will be running efficiently for years to come. Most folks are already aware of this. But if you feel like you’re mastering […]