Daylong Project Gives Lifetime Perspective

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What if you wake up one morning and have to face the fact that you’re a single mom,  have only $15 left, three kids to feed, a mother who’s moved in with you, and by the way, she’s starting to show…

Leadership Redding: Helping Small Businesses

Perhaps it’s because I’ve been in my own little world with my kids and work since returning to Redding that I hadn’t heard about all the programs here in Redding for small business owners. Or, after talking with many people…

Long tale of a short sale

While everyone is spending a lot of time pointing fingers and talking about how we got into this housing mess, I feel compelled to tell the tale of this short sale.

A short sale is where the house is being sold…

Leadership Redding journey continues

Do you ever wish you could get a do-over on your elementary school field trips now that you actually care about the information being taught? I am so lucky because as part of our first class for Leadership Redding on Culture…

Leadership Redding starts with inspiration

A group of 35 classmates from all different parts of the community – the publisher of Enjoy magazine, City of Redding employees, people in the health-care arena, employees of Northern Valley Catholic Social Service, just to name a few, along…

Tight financing Market? Think outside the box

Do you remember the days when, in order to buy a house, you scrimped and saved until you had a big enough down payment to go out and find your dream home?

How about the days when you could buy a…

The real estate market: A matter of perspective

No matter which way you turn you are hearing about the downturn in the real estate market.  Everyone is talking about how much money they have “lost” on their home since things took a turn for the worse. 

But is…

Realtor relationships

Q: Dear Lara, we were thinking of putting our house on the market eventually, so we invited a realtor over to look it over and give advice about the market and the best time to list it. We didn’t fill out…

Seller Beware!

Even if you are living under a rock you can’t help hearing about the real estate market and how crazy it is.

Perhaps if you are a seller, though, it has taken a little bit longer to realize that it no longer is a seller’s market where you get to call the shots.

Lara Wells Osborn, Realtor
City vs. Country

Someone recently asked me whether Realtors specialize in country versus city and/or locales. When this person visited the area some years ago, she said Realtors tended to steer her east of Redding rather than west.

And when her country home was for sale in 2006, she was told seller’s Realtors don’t show the homes they’ve listed.