DOM, REO? These seem to be the top questions Chico buyers are asking when looking for a home. Translation? “Days on the market” and “foreclosure.” But are these really the first questions you should be asking?
The No. 1 question I would ask my Realtor: “Why are they selling the home?” Finding out the motivation of […]

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Imagine an episode of Survivor. The four remaining competitors are tackling an endurance challenge, dangling from a tree branch, holding on for dear life lest they fall and lose the million dollars.
All of them will make it for the first hour, many into hour two or three. Then there comes a tipping point where they […]

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For years I have cringed whenever someone used the term “modular” to describe a manufactured home, not unlike how my father-in-law, a World War II Navy veteran, cringed when I called a cruise ship a boat. “It is a ship,” he would say. “A boat is something that is carried on […]

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