Wednesday, October 9, 2019

by Matt Rogers

September 2019 Colorado Springs Real Estate Statistics

Local market statistics released by the Pikes Peak Association of REALTORS® (PPAR) for September 2019.September 2019 Colorado Springs Real Estate Statistics: The Colorado Springs real estate market is strong. Rental homes are still in demand in the PPAR MLS. Call All Seasons today to find out the steps you need to take to offer y...

Wednesday, October 2, 2019

by Matt Rogers

The #1 Way to Find the Best Residential Property Manager

So you have a new investment property, and you’d like to rent it out. In researching the requirements surrounding being a landlord, you decide you want to hire a Professional Property Manager. Good decision! (Check out our blog post Is Self-Managing a Big Mistake for New Landlords? by clicking here.) The #1 way to find the best resi...

Thursday, September 12, 2019

by Matt Rogers

How to Control Smart Home Privacy

A new episode in our smart home blog series.We’ve been writing about how to set up a Smart Home on our blog for over a year. In this blog post, we’d like to address the issue of how to control smart home privacy when it comes to your active listening devices, like Alexa, Google Assistant, and Siri. Most people have these ...

Thursday, September 5, 2019

by Matt Rogers

August 2019 Colorado Springs Real Estate Statistics

Local market statistics released by the Pikes Peak Association of REALTORS® (PPAR) for August 2019.August 2019 Colorado Springs Real Estate Statistics: The Colorado Springs real estate market is strong.Rental homes are still in demand in the PPAR MLS. Call All Seasons today to find out the steps you need to take to offer your Colorado...

Wednesday, August 28, 2019

by Michele Free

How to Organically Clean your Oven

Have you looked at your oven lately? We all like to have clean surfaces where we prepare our food. Self-cleaning ovens will cook off the leftover food inside your oven, but it creates smoke, and takes energy. Other oven cleaners contain harmful chemicals we don’t want around our families. Here is how to organically clean your oven, ...

Friday, August 16, 2019

by Matt Rogers

7 Rookie Landlord Mistakes

Understanding the Business of Landlording, Episode 2Becoming a landlord can be profitable, but it’s not a passive investment. Success means hard work and savvy. Here are 7 rookie landlord mistakes to avoid.1. Not properly planning for expensesWhen adding up investment property costs, you’ll think of mortgage, insurance, and ta...

Tuesday, July 30, 2019

by Matt Rogers

Robot Vacuums for your Home

The latest in the All Seasons Smart Homes blog SeriesRobot vacuums have come a long way since they were first introduced in 1996 by Electrolux. Back then, the vacuums were expensive and inefficient, although they sparked the imagination. Could there be a time when they’d become good enough to clean our homes for us?In 2019, robotics...

Thursday, June 20, 2019

by Matt Rogers

What does CRMC mean?

If you want to rent out your property, you want a property manager who knows what they're doing. How do you tell? One way to check on a firm you want to hire is to look at their designations. Colorado requires property managers to have a real estate license, but at All Seasons, our team has much more. We have designations.The designat...

Thursday, May 16, 2019

by Matt Rogers

Understanding Smart Plugs

The latest in the All Seasons Smart Home blog seriesUnderstanding smart plugs: Forget to turn off the curling iron this morning? A smart plug can let your phone control anything you plug into an outlet. So turn off the curling iron right from work.Smart Plugs: A Good 1st StepWant to try to smart home products, but worried about the cost? ...

Wednesday, April 17, 2019

by Matt Rogers

Preparing Your Rental for Spring

Understanding the Business of Landlording, a New Blog Series from All SeasonsEpisode 1 - Preparing your rental for SpringIt's been a cold, wet winter in Colorado. This is good! Snow pack is 143% of normal, which means we won't be in severe drought conditions this summer. Hopefully that means the fire risk is much lower this year, ...