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Choosing Paint By Light Direction

Light exposure in your room plays a large part in the visual drama of your paint colors. In rooms with multi-directional sun exposure—either opposing (east/west or north/south) or perpendicular (north/west, north/east, south/west, south/east)—the play of light over your walls, reflecting…

Why More Americans Do Not Own Homes

 While home prices are on the rise in most of the U.S.—fueled by the low supply, low mortgage rates and investor buying—the number of Americans that own homes, as a percentage of the population, is decreasing. The reasons vary, since…

Low Housing Supply Is Causing Prices To Rise For West Sedona Rental Property

Low housing supply is causing prices to rise for rentals for West Sedona Rental property. If you are looking for income property, I can help you determine the right property for you. The current housing market, while picking up in…

How to Sell Sedona Real Estate for Full Price

How to sell Sedona Real Estate for full price means establishing the right price at the outset. Often, homeowners try to “test the market” with a higher than fair-market price when first listing their home. This is a poor marketing…

Should You Buy a Second Home?

Having a second home in a favorite vacation spot (like Sedona) can be a great investment or an expensive luxury. A beach cottage or mountain retreat is enticing while both interest rates and home prices are low. How do you…

Cleaning to Sell Your Sedona Home

When you are cleaning to sell your Sedona home, buyers notice. This can be the easiest way to add value to your home.  A well cared for home goes a long way with a buyer and their perception of the…

Quick Tips for Adding Resale Value To Your Sedona Home

When you’re in a hurry to sell, you need top dollar, try some of these tips: Have me evaluate your home. As a real estate professional, I know what sells and what doesn’t and we can help you spend your…

Choosing the Right Paint

Whether you’re preparing your home to move in, or preparing it to sell, choosing the right paint from the myriad choices available to day can be daunting. Paints come in up to six different finishes, so even if you’ve chosen…

What to Know about Summer Lawn Care

Lush greens and rolling verdant fairways stoke homeowner dreams of the perfect lawn. This holds true in Sedona as in most areas. Though, many homes have desert landscaping in the front and backyard, so a green lawn can be very…

Is Your House the Right Investment to Fund Retirement?

For many people, your home is your largest asset. Like your parents, and grandparents before them, you expect your home—in some way—to fund your retirement. For some of you, that means selling the home near retirement and relocating, using the…

Rearranging Deck Chairs on the Titanic

Okay, so it’s not the Titanic. It’s your new house and you can’t seem to make your older furniture fit. Buying new furniture is out of the question, so how do you make your round pegs fit into those square…

L’Auberge de Sedona ~ Summer Brunch on the Creek

 You hardly know you are nestled among the magnificent red rocks of Sedona when you are on Oak Creek at the L’Auberge de Sedona Resort.   The setting is perfect for a summer respite from the warm temperatures that summer…

Pinterest for Home Buyers and Sellers

Pinterest for Home Buyers See Sheri Sperry ~ SellSedona.com on Pinterest to get great ideas.  there are many boards that pertain to real estate and others have great pictures of Sedona and Arizona. Some people are great at articulating exactly…

How to Prepare for Emergencies in Your New Home (Part 3)

If you already own that select property here in Sedona, you may think that a lot of these topics do not apply to you.  On June 15th, we enter the monsoon season in Arizona and though Sedona does not always…

What Gen Y Looks for in a Home to Buy

If you’ve lived in your home for some time, you notice when the neighborhood around you is changing to a younger demographic. Thinking this might be a good time to sell, you wonder what was so appealing about the house…

How to Prepare for Emergencies in Your New Home (Part 2)

In a new home or neighborhood, preparing for emergencies in advance might just save you or your family member’s life. In Part 2, we cover the basics for inside your house. Know your home: Learn how to turn off gas,…

How to Prepare for Emergencies in Your New Home (Part 1)

When you move into your new home, you may not think to revise and update your emergency plan, but natural disasters strike without warning. Avoid being caught without a plan in place at your new address. Here are ten steps…

Use Memorial Day Sales to Your Home’s Advantage!

Keeping your home comfortable and up-to-date seems like an expensive endeavor. With trends changing so fast, our wallets can hardly keep up! Lucky for us, Memorial Day is just around the corner. If you shop smart at the sales this…

Enjoy the Backyard of Your Home More

Spring is in the air and its time to journey outside your home and enjoy the crisp air, beautiful flowers and sunshine.  Chances are you will find yourself spending more time outside enjoying this new season and catching up with…

Vacationing Away From Your Home

Warmer weather and cloud-free skies may have you dreaming of leaving your home for a vacation. No matter where you choose to journey for your break away trip, take the time to make preparations to your home before leaving. A…