

Who's Your Biggest Fan?
"Your psychotherapist will (hopefully) listen for 50 minutes once a week. But the list of folks who’ll put up with your prattling stops there. Except for your Realtor."

Home Sellers’ Blindspots
You have turned lemons into lemonade…But just because you like doing dishes by hand doesn’t mean buyers are going to embrace a kitchen without a dishwasher.




Look Softly
Take a deep breath before entering any property and detach from the impulse to evaluate.


Have Some Soup. Or Some Tea.
After all, you probably just exhausted all of your savings and most of your energy...

Blessings Not In Disguise
The essential problem with off-market sales is that...somebody feels like something was unfair.



Help! Everything's Wrong!
At the finish line for readying a home for sale, little details can loom large.




A Thousand Serious Moves
Stuff happens that makes us feel like we got the salt kicked out of us.

Re-la-tor not Real-tor
I am surprised but forgiving (as I suppress a desire to either laugh or be offended) when anybody suggests I’m only in it for the money.

Lessons from Fairyland: Rapunzel
Removing the only means of egress to a teen’s bedroom is the sort of move guaranteed to ruin a parent-child relationship.
