Team Thayer Real Estate Blog

By Kimberly Lankford From MarketWatch Question: The rural county where I live has just reassessed real estate values, and my home's assessment more than tripled, as did most others in the country. The assessed value is now more than my most recent property appraisal. Should I appeal? What informa...

Speak Now Or Forever Be "Back Buttoned" Content, content, content - will we ever ease up on the content lecture? No, we're sorry, you'll have to hear about content until it just doesn't matter anymore. Can we guess when that will be? Ok who said "never"? You get a prize! (kidding). Really, conten...

When real estate shows signs of a rebound, investing in real property becomes more popular. There is a right way and a wrong way to go about investing. Here are a few mistakes investors often make: Planning as you go. - The best way to solve the problem is to have lots of activity and make offers...

If you know you must miss a mortgage payment, the worst thing you can do is to hope that no one will notice, or that if you don't answer the phone your lender will assume you are just a very busy person and wait patiently for you to catch up. Ostriches don't solve problems and, in the present con...

Why is the time of day with the slowest traffic called rush hour? Why isn't there mouse-flavored cat food? When dog food is new and improved tasting, who tests it? Why didn't Noah swat those two mosquitoes? Why do they sterilize the needle for lethal injections? You know that indestructible blac...

1. Only in America......can a pizza get to your house faster than an ambulance.2. Only in America......are there handicap parking places in front of a skating rink.3. Only in America......do drugstores make the sick walk all the way to the back of the store to get their prescriptions while health...

Only in America......do we use the word 'politics' to describe the process so well: 'Poli' in Latin meaning 'many' and 'tics' meaning 'bloodsucking creatures'

Why the sun lightens our hair, but darkens our skin?Why don't you ever see the headline "Psychic Wins Lottery"?Why is "abbreviated" such a long word?Why is it that doctors call what they do "practice"?Why is lemon juice made with artificial flavor, and dishwashing liquid made with real lemons?Why...

Buyers finally have the upper hand.     Welcome to real estate's new reality, where prices are down, foreclosures are up, experts are jittery, and a lot of for sale signs are getting weather-beaten. That may be bad news for homeowners, sellers and investors. Buyers on the other hand, have a rare ...

On Wednesday, the National Association of Realtors said it expects its measure of home prices to fall this year for the first time since the group began tracking sales nearly 40 years ago.  Play Video Fed Says What It Means, Finally Bloomberg-Clip - (BLOOM-Clip) Apr. 13, 2007. 08:00 AM EST In-Dep...