Readers’ Choice Awards: Best Real Estate Agent of 2022
For many in the world of real estate, 2022 was a tumultuous year. With 30-year mortgage rates increasing from 3.22% in January to a high of 7.08% at the end of October, combined with decreasing inventory, would-be buyers opted to pull back. For Carla...
The Colorado Kidney . . . Goes to Ohio
In May, I had a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to donate a kidney to someone who needed one, literally to save a life. When I started on this journey, I thought the life my kidney would be saving was my Uncle Mike's. But, in the end, through a long story I am going...

What it’s like to be a real estate broker — Perspective from a new broker 6 months in
The Myth vs. The Reality When I passed the state and national real estate exams last Nov., I thought I had some idea of what lay in store for me as a new broker. After all, I'd had a ringside view of witnessing my managing broker, Carla Braddy, in action for three...

Being A Good Neighbor
In our world of real estate, it is the goal to move into a neighborhood that has good neighbors. Good neighbors factor importantly into the old maxim that what buyers should most look for is “Location, location, and location.” Likewise, having and being a good...