Bion Grady's (biongrady) Blog

“If you’re thinking about buying or selling a house right now, you’re not alone.”That was the opening declaration in last Tuesday’s essay from the New York Times best-selling author and host of “The Rachel Cruze Show.” Her insights into personal finance and “fun, practical ways to take control of...

Owners of Dallas properties with guesthouses may have investigated enrolling in Airbnb but might have worried that merely signing up would fail to bring vacationers flocking to their door. Like any other small business venture, competition is always out there. That is one reason why one guesthous...

For past generations, the magic summoned up by the phrase “Million-Dollar!” would be hard to exaggerate—so the idea of Douglasville million-dollar homes would have represented gawk-worthy artifacts of success. Even though today, “million-dollar” this and that are attached to everyday news items, ...

They are commonly called “presale” inspections, but a more precise name would substitute “pre-listing.” Ordering Powder Springs pre-listing inspections represent solid proactive measures that experienced Powder Springs house sellers often schedule early in the process. Even when they have no reas...

As soon as Powder Springs homeowners query the web for anything that has to do with home improvements, they quickly learn that the home improvement industry is quick to notice. They’ll do their promotional best to send along the ads they think are likely to get a click. Since “home improvements” ...

One major way to enhance the curb appeal of any Douglasville house is to freshen it with a new coat of paint in an attractive color scheme that adds life and beauty. However, when the weather turns really hot, it’s best to hold off on painting the exterior of your Douglasville house. When paint d...

There’s no doubt that high mortgage rates are discouraging Dallas home buyers—which made last Monday’s Wall Street Journal piece about a “more popular option” of special interest to Dallas home sellers. The option under the spotlight was “an unlikely source: the seller of their house.” Although t...

Last Thursday, under the headline “The Housing Recession is Over…,” Douglasville real estate observers found a MarketWatch report laden with positive indicators. All of them were, however, less than earth-shaking in scale. The optimism-tinged phrases like ‘ticked up,’ ‘inched up,’ and ‘small posi...

We may not think about it often, but as the median age of the country’s population creeps steadily higher, it has many effects on the daily lives of all of us—regardless of age. It would be shocking if it weren’t so, given the size of the shift: the median age of the U.S. population in 1920 (Boom...

Powder Springs homeowners have ample reason to expect to attract bids that reflect the recent run-up in U.S. real estate prices, but that alone shouldn’t lull them into complacency as they prepare their property for entry into the Powder Springs listings. That’s a real estate truism—even in a wel...