Gardening here at my Arvada home, between Denver and Boulder, gives me such pleasure. It brings beauty into my life, and fresh food, and fresh air and excercise. And yet, how much more a garden means to a family struggling to survive – well, it just humbles me. This spring, when I dig and plant [...]
Groupon’s Guide to Seeds – Just for Fun!
If you receive Groupon’s daily offerings, you’re already privy to the fact that their write-ups are always entertaining. Here’s one that tickled my funny bone recently. I thought I’d share for all the other gardeners out there, waiting patiently for spring! The Groupon Guide to: Seeds Seeds are tiny wooden eggs laid by plants [...]
How Anyone Can Grow a Garden Denver to Boulder
I just read a tip sheet about how anyone can grow a garden. There were a couple of good tips, but also a couple I disagree with. For those of you who have had trouble with house plants, so you lack the confidence to invest in outdoor landscape plants or a vegetable garden, I want [...]
Joetta’s Real Estate Newsletter April 2012
Joetta’s Neighborhood Newsletter April, 2012 To All My Friends & Neighbors – Greetings! Did you get out to Arvada’s Kite Festival or the Colorado Tartan Festival? Both very fun events that are held on the same day. I made it to both last year but only the kite festival this year. It has [...]
Arvada CO Home Sales $500,000+ March 2012
What this report tells you: Percent of distressed sales and number of Arvada homes sold in this price range has remained quite steady over the past three years, and days on the market has come way down. Still … the backlog is a real problem for folks trying to sell their home for more than [...]
Arvada CO Home Sales $400-500,000 March 2012
What this report tells you: Arvada homes selling between $400,000 and $500,000 defy the local logic, which states that foreclosures and short sales are just now hitting the higher-priced homes. This price ranges seems to be a sort of ‘sweet spot’ – not terribly impacted by distressed sales, yet not suffering the market malaise of [...]
Arvada CO Homes $300-400,000 March 2012
What this report tells you: While days on market have come way down, percent of distressed sales have risen. This confirms the feeling of many, that the higher price ranges are just now hitting the peak of the housing crisis, even as the lower price ranges are turning around. Click this link to see Arvada Home [...]
Arvada CO Home Sales $250-300,000 March 2012
What this report tells you: Days on market for Arvada homes in this price range have dropped all the way down below one month – most real estate pros would call that a seller’s market. However, there’s a pretty good supply of homes in this price range, so sellers are not yet in the position [...]
Happy Pea Planting on St. Patrick’s Day
St. Patrick’s day is green for high country gardeners in a way that doesn’t involve food coloring – it’s the ‘official’ day to plant peas. There are some high country gardens that are still buried under snow, but for those of us below 6,000 feet the ground should no longer be frozen. So, soak your [...]
When the Snow Melts, Will There Be Flowers?
Here in the Denver metro region of Colorado, we don’t normally have snow covering the ground for more than a couple of days at a time. But this year has been different, the snow has blanketed our yards and gardens for more than two weeks. All that time I’ve wondered, when the snow melts, will [...]
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