Lincoln, NH Real Estate
Spring Market Update
April 2023
Lincoln is a picturesque and historic town anytime of the year, located in the heart of the White Mountains of New Hampshire. Despite rising interest rates and a higher average number of days on market, over the past year, [...]
WHAT CAN BUYERS DO
Rising interest rates are certainly not ideal, but it doesn’t mean that you can’t find your perfect home. There are many factors that need to be considered, including your personal financial situation and your willingness and ability to pay slightly more for that mortgage payment each month. The good news is that you will now be in a market with less competition and will likely have more power in negotiating with sellers.
Prior to applying for a mortgage, make sure your finances are in good order. Pay down debt, this directly impacts your Debt-to-Income ratio (DTI) that lenders look for.
As the colder months of the year fall farther behind us, so do our trips to ski mountains. Once packed mountains are again abandoned until the next winter season begins. In an effort to combat this dormancy, mountains are starting to provide activities for the public during the summer months, too. Several ski mountains in New Hampshire [...]
Riverwalk Phase II
Six years after its initial construction, Riverwalk Resort is beginning what it calls “phase II” of its layout. According to The Colebrook Chronicle, these expansions will include an additional 66 rooms and an “event function facility;” This space will host conferences, banquets, and the like. Progress reports and photos [...]
Let’s talk about raised gardens, if you don’t have adequate yard space or simply want the convenience of not having to bend over to tend to your garden this is a great alternative. So let us cover the basics.
How Deep Should a Raised Garden Be?
A raised bed doesn’t have to be very deep to be effective.8-18”, If the plants you are growing require drier soil the bed should be taller and filled with a porous growing medium. Vegetable beds should be 12-24” deep.
It’s gardening season! Are you ready? Today I’ve gathered up some of the funnest gardening hacks out there. From using diapers and soda cans, to making watermelon slings and table cloth movers. How fun are these ideas?! We are busy and we need all the quick, quirky, and helpful gardening ideas we can get!
It is that time of year again, here is some guidance for starting your Seedlings Indoors.
I know, most of New England is under a blanket of white and the last thing you have on your mind is your summer garden. You can grow a robust vegetable garden by buying young plants at your local garden center closer to the time you want to plant them outside, but your selection may be limited especially if you are an organic grower. On the other hand, you can have a much wider range of varieties if you start your own plants from seeds indoors. If this is you, now is the time to start planning and mapping your outside garden. Start plants like tomatoes with long grow times and requirements for warm weather now. Planting your own seedlings is very economical with many seed suppliers like Johnnyseeds.
Follow these 10 tips when you embark on an exciting home remodeling project.
Homeownership is the foundation of the American Dream and with dwindling inventory across the country many potential buyers are breaking the barrier into building the homes they can’t find on the market. This isn’t a task to enter into lightly, there’s plenty of horror stories to be found about buyers being scammed or having contractors walk away in the middle of the job whether they’ve been paid or not.
Due to the lack of inventory any good builder is going to have a pretty hefty pipeline and likely not enough help to keep up with the demand so it’s important to do a lot of research on your own before venturing into this territory.
ARM? GPM? PITI? You’d have to be a cryptologist to figure out some of the terms buyers encounter during the home buying process. Doing research on how to buy a house before beginning the process can greatly improve your experience and prepare you for the exciting course ahead. And with this glossary of home buying terms at your side, you can rest easy that your new home won’t get lost in translation.
It’s difficult to pin down one 2021 housing market prediction that will be 100 percent accurate, but there are a lot of compelling points being made from very detailed analyses. Let’s take a look at a few of them.
During these difficult times when many people are losing their jobs or getting hours cut there has been some significant activity on the exceedingly small end of small businesses – micro-businesses you might say.
About Pemi Valley Habitat for Humanity
Pemi Valley Habitat for Humanity is part of a global, nonprofit housing organization operated on Christian principles that seeks to put God’s love into action by building homes, communities, and hope. Pemi Valley Habitat for Humanity is dedicated to eliminating substandard housing locally and worldwide through constructing, rehabilitating, and preserving homes; by advocating for fair and just housing policies; and by providing training and access to resources to help families improve their shelter conditions. Habitat for Humanity was founded on the conviction that every man, woman and child should have a simple, durable place to live in dignity and safety, and that decent shelter in decent communities should be a matter of conscience and action for all.
Clutter can often be a sign of a chaotic lifestyle and it can also represent a very depressed person. You might have ready many articles on the subject and tried a variety of ways to clean up your own space but within days it’s right back to the same old trend of collecting mail or papers you really don’t need. That’s because you haven’t found the decluttering style that best fits your lifestyle. There’s no one way that works for everyone.
It’s been proven. Clutter is a bummer — literally.
Dishes in the sink, toys throughout the house, stuff covering every flat surface; this clutter not only makes our homes look bad, it makes us feel bad, too.
At least that’s what researchers at UCLA’s Center on Everyday Lives and Families (CELF) discovered when they explored in real time the relationship between 32 California families and the objects in their homes. The resulting book, "Life at Home in The Twenty-First Century," is a rare look at how middle-class Americans use the space in their homes and interact with the things they accumulate over a lifetime.
Our over-worked closets are overflowing with things we rarely touch.
It turns out that clutter has a profound effect on our mood and self-esteem. CELF’s anthropologists, social scientists, and archaeologists found:
The beginning of a new year is always a good time to revisit our budgets, credit and saving money any way we can. AHEAD is fulfilling these much-needed services by offering virtual one-hour workshops.
In January they have 4 courses being offered virtually and FREE. Even better, they are making them available during the day as well as in the evening. Their January schedule is as follows:
If you are one of the thousands of employees who are now working from home here are some suggestions in getting a home office space established. First off, you will need tools that boost efficiency, comfort, and pleasure to make any work-from-home assignment better. If you want to be productive and professional when working from home, you must create a home office that matches your aspirations. Here are the most important criteria for creating a home office that you will want to use. Follow these tips to save yourself time and remove the stress of having a poorly planned home office before you begin working from home full time.
Stay-at-home orders have led many families to cook together more, sending kitchens into overdrive. All that time prepping meals gives homeowners new kitchen goals: easier maintenance and better hygiene. Here are a few ideas for a fresher style.
To date 22 lots have been released for sale and as of just this morning, the last one went under contract with our Lincoln Managing Broker, Steve Loynd. That equates to 22 pending sales.