by Lisa Broadwater | Mar 29, 2012 | About Sisters, Oregon, For Sellers, Home & Design, Homeowner Tips, Photos of Central Oregon, Uncategorized
Let me just say I love my husband, but he’s no home design trend-setter. For example, last week we were in Costco casually perusing the aisles, when he spied some pretty good-looking patio furniture. “Hey, that would look great in our dining room!” he offered. Not...
by Lisa Broadwater | Mar 22, 2012 | For Buyers, Homeowner Tips, Real Estate News, Uncategorized
RE/MAX recently released a very nifty little property-search tool for the smart-phone savvy. The RE/MAX home search mobile app is extremely user-friendly, so that even the not-so-tech-savvy of us can maneuver it easily. When you open the app, you’ll see a list of...
by Lisa Broadwater | Feb 18, 2012 | For Sellers, Home & Design, Homeowner Tips, Uncategorized
At our last Sisters broker tour (which was, coincidentally, scheduled for Valentine’s Day), I was reminded of the importance of staging. We viewed seven new listings that ranged in price from $149,990 to $725,000, and of those seven, one clearly stood out. It...
by Lisa Broadwater | Jan 25, 2012 | Home & Design, Homeowner Tips, Uncategorized
I spent the past several weeks hanging out with my mom in the house she and I used to share in Arkansas before I met Jack and moved to Oregon. It’s been eight years since Jack and I left, sort of on a whim, on a steamy summer day — our Chesapeake Bay retriever...
by Lisa Broadwater | Nov 3, 2011 | About Central Oregon, Homeowner Tips, Uncategorized
This Sunday marks the end of Daylight Saving Time. And, as far as we’re concerned, the requisite one-hour moving-back of the clock is arriving just in the nick — this waking-up-in-the-pitch-dark business is for the birds. Sure, it would be easy enough to...