Cleveland Real Estate News

Did you know the East Wing of the Art Museum  had a face lift? You can visit it today and enjoy the weather on the grounds at the Cleveland Museum of Art Chalk Festival.  This is the Festival’s 20th year. There is a fee if you want to explore your creative side and do your [...]

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Many of us have gone to walkscore.com  to check out how this national study rates our own home/street in terms of walk ability.  But if you are looking for a new home, how valuable would your investment be if it had a high walk ability score? My opinion? It adds a lot of value. Think about the [...]

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I’ve begun my preparation towards adding a dog to my family. It’s long overdue, but I waited until I was sure it’s a good idea. While browsing the shelter sites (because that is probably where my pup will come from), I found a quiz. What kind of dog am I? How could I resist. What [...]

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Not a topic normally covered here, but two things keep rolling around in my brain so I have to post about it. That’s life as a blogger I guess! First, I received a call from what I will call an advance person for President Obama.  He wanted to know if I would be willing to [...]

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I hope everyone had terrific long weekend. What is sneaking up on us is primary election day, which is tomorrow. We had Ward redistricting in Cleveland.  If you think they probably didn’t change where I vote, you just might be wrong. Go to the County BOE website to check your polling location.  Just click on [...]

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Michelle Jarboe of the PD did a great job covering some condo purchase issues with nice updates via comments from lenders and how they are treating mortgage requests on condominiums.  Her  article is here.  Be sure to read through to First Fed of Lakewood and National City comments on what they will and will not [...]

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I had to Google a housing inspector today and when I reached the Google home page, there was a space ship doodle on the logo.  I did what I always do when there is a change to the logo and moused over the logo.  Nothing.  This time you had to click on it.  And different [...]

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Two things have been churning around in my brain and I realized the need to post about them. Both are related to how much you, the buyer, should pay for your next house. It all started with the TV show Property Virgins. I actually like the show and think that  Sandra, the real estate agent [...]

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The short answer seems to be yes. I’m sure you’ve read print, web and tv reports about the National housing market having more activity (buyers writing offers) this year – and same media reporting on NE Ohio sales being highest in last few years. Made sense to me to put that to the test and [...]

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