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Wednesday, November 9th, 2011
Veteran’s Day is a Day We Should All Honor
We live in a country of great pride and privilege, and that’s in large part due to the military men and women who have fought and continue to fight for our right to live in a free country with opportunity for all. The Steamboat Springs community does a great job of honoring the men and women who serve in our Armed Forces. There’s a Memorial Day ceremony every year in May and every Veteran’s Day stores and restaurants around Steamboat Springs offer special discounts to those who have served in the military. Our local schools welcome veterans by hosting assemblies where they honor the veterans with patriotic songs as well as listen to the veterans describe what it meant to them to serve their country.
Veteran's Day
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Tags: Air Force, Armed Forces, Army, Marines, Military, Navy, Soda Creek Elementary School, steamboat springs, Strawberry Park Elementary School, Veteran's Day
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Thursday, October 20th, 2011
I use an Apple computer for much of my work. All my creative is done on a Mac. I edit my real estate photographs and create all my real estate video on a 24 inch iMac. I could not imagine using anything else.
So it does not surprise me that Apple.com had an endearing picture of Steve Jobs on the home page of their site for two weeks. I found it a wonderful tribute to the legacy that Steve Jobs left.
For two weeks, Apple used the premiere real estate, being the home page of Apple.com to honor Steve. Not for selling iPhone 4s, or selling the iPad 2, it was about honoring the man that lead Apple down many roads to success.
Every day I would visit the site just to see how long the home page would remain. And each day that the tribute remained made me appreciate Apple even more.
Steve Jobs and apple.com
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Monday, October 17th, 2011
Foreclosures Jump 39% in the Boat – This is Good for Real Estate?
The Associated Press reported that nationally third quarter first time default notices increased 14% over second quarter, and Routt County is trending upward as well with 86 new foreclosures documented from July-September which nets a 39% jump from 62 foreclosures in the second quarter. The Steamboat Springs’ real estate market saw 104 default notices in the first quarter of 2011.
As long as there is Shadow Inventory clouding the housing inventory outlook, sellers hesitate to put homes on the market and buyers wait to see what “hot deals” are yet to come on the market. A pick-up in foreclosures, with Shadow Inventory coming out of the shadows and into the market, puts the cards on the table, moves the inventory through the selling process and as such could be the start of a true turnaround for the US housing market and the Steamboat Springs real estate market as well. While no one likes to see their neighbor lose their home, having a home stuck in bank backlog limbo knowing it will in all likelihood end up in foreclosure, means roadblocks are thrown up on many fronts. Buyers and sellers “wait and see” what’s going to happen and the multiplier effect of that happening from Steamboat Springs to Phoenix, to Orlando combines to stall the housing market nation wide.
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Foreclosures Jump 39% in Steamboat – This is Good for Real Estate?
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Tags: Banks, Buyers, foreclosure, Lenders, Market Trends, Mortgage Payments, real estate, Sellers, Shadow Inventory, steamboat foreclosures, steamboat springs
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Wednesday, September 28th, 2011
Photos of Trail Ridge Road in the Rocky Mountain National Park. These photographs were taken on September 23, 2011. This is one of the most spectacular passes in Colorado. It stretches from Granby to Estes Park. The altitude ranges from 7,500 to 14,259 feet slices through montane, sub-alpine and alpine zones. A drive up Trail Ridge Road takes you to the Arctic Circle ecologically. The Continental Divide splits the Park into east and west sides.
Rocky Mountain National Park -photo by Charlie Dresen
Rocky Mountain National Park by Charlie Dresen
Trail Ridge Road in the Rocky Mountains
Rocky Mountain National Park by SteamboatsMyHome.com
Rocky Mountain Park by SteamboatsMyHome.com
Trail Ridge Road Colorado
Tags: estes park, granby, Rocky mountain national park, rocky mountains, Trail Ridge Road
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Saturday, September 10th, 2011
Don’t Buy Real Estate Prices, Buy Monthly Payments.
Hill St. For Sale in Steamboat Springs
It’s often said that, “now is a great time to buy real estate in Steamboat Springs, Colorado.” Home prices are down from 30-50%, interests rates are at an all-time low around 4%, sellers are motivated, on and on. There might be more reasons to buy real estate than ever before. But just because these motivating facts about the aspects of real estate are true, this doesn’t mean that buying a home, town home or condo is right for everyone.
If you are thinking about buying real estate in Steamboat and you’re crunching numbers to see if it makes sense this graph below might help. All too often buyers get a number in their head of what they can afford. “I’m looking up to $200,000” or “We can afford a home between $400,000 and $500,000.” Now these might be real numbers because you met with a lender yesterday. But these numbers can change on a daily basis depending on a few things – your income, your debt, and the interest rates.
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Tags: charlie dresen, colorado, cost of real estate, Downtown, interests rates, monthly payment, payment, Sellers, steamboat, steamboat real estate, steamboat springs, steamboat springs real estate
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Monday, June 13th, 2011
Local Steamboat company Smartwool, owned by Timberland, get acquired by VFC.
Real estate sales is closely tied to the job market. One of the major employers in Steamboat Springs in a wonderful wool apparels company Smartwool. Their roots and firmly planted in Steamboat and are an important part of the community and job source employing upwards of 65 people in Steamboat Spring. A few years ago Smartwool was acquired by The Timberland company. A seamless transition to local Steamboat residences, Smartwool continues to grow and become one of the industry leader in wool blended active clothing.
This morning, VFC acquired The Timberland Company and Smartwool. VFC is a $7 billion-plus apparel powerhouse with such brands like, The NorthFace, Wrangler, Lee, Jansport, Vans, to name a few. Here’s some specifics on the deal:
‘• Transformative Acquisition Will Create $10B Global Apparel & Footwear Powerhouse
• Addition of Timberland(R) and Smartwool(R) Brands Will Boost VF’s Outdoor & Action Sports Business to 50% of Total Revenues
• Will Provide Significant EPS Accretion in 2011 and 2012
• Acquisition was for $43 dollars per share ‘
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Steamboat Springs company Smartwool, owned by Timberland, get acquired by VFC, VF Company, VF Corp
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Tags: acquired, acquisition, real estate, Sell, Smartwool, Steamboat Spring, steamboat springs real estate, stock, The Timberland Company, Timberland, VF Corporation, VFC
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Monday, June 6th, 2011
With several feet of snow in the hill, Steamboat Springs, Colorado, aka: Ski Town USA is about to go under water. Depending on the temperatures, the snow on the mountains is now filling the rivers around Steamboat Springs.
This board walk is usually about 4-5 feet off the ground.
Steamboat Springs Yampa Flooding
Here’s a recent news clip from the Elk River and the local paper
Time will tell how this will affect the lower areas around Steamboat. But people are starting to get concerned.
Flooding In Steamboat Springs Colorado
This is my favorite bridge with a lot of water running under it now.
No fishing in Steamboat Springs for a while
Steamboat Springs — High waters continued to flow from rivers, creeks and streams in and around Steamboat Springs, Colorado on Sunday as the record snowpack continues to melt, and a flood warning remains in effect for much of Routt County until 9 a.m. Tuesday. Our fingers are crossed.
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Monday, February 28th, 2011
Charlie telemark racing at Steamboat Springs - Photo by Joel Reichenberger
In one week, I will be leaving for Norway to compete in the Telemark World Cup Skiing Finals and the Telemark World Championships. So check back for I’ll be writing blogs during my travels.
Hard to believe I have the time to race at such a high level let alone train for the events. But it’s all about focus and quality over quantity. At least in my hours put into this sport. I’ve been coaching telemark racing for the Steamboat Springs Winter Sports Club for a few years and have been racing on and off for several years. I call myself a racer/coach and when I have my race-face on I take it very seriously. Although it’s just a passion for my family and career in real estate take first priority over my adventures as a telemark ski racer.
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Steamboat Real Estate agent waxes telemark skis – World Championships here we come
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Tags: charlie dresen, CWX, Norway, Scarpa, Smartwool, telemark, Telemark ski racing, Telemark World Cup, United States Telemark Ski Team
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Sunday, February 6th, 2011
Here’s a listing in Steamboat Springs. 1508 Cascades Drive, Steamboat Springs, CO. It’s a great 4+ bedroom townhome with 3.5 bath. It’s in a wonderful location but take a look for yourself. Here’s a street view of the place. Move the arrows and walk down for a look at the neighborhood.
Take a look at the listing information for this large townhome in the Steamboat Ski Area, don’t forget to view the video of the inside.
Just use the arrows on the top left to move around. Or click anywhere in the window to move there. Of if you literally want to move there call me first, Charlie Dresen 970-846-6435
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Tuesday, January 25th, 2011
It’s not a pretty report. 17 out of 20 major real estate market showed a deceleration in housing prices. And 9 markets: Atlanta, Charlotte, Chicago, Detroit, Las Vegas, Miami, Portland, Seattle and Tampa hit their lowest since 2006/2007.
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These reports are from data collected up to November so I’m hoping the next report will show improvements from December and January. I know things have become a little better in Steamboat Springs. But the Steamboat Springs market is affected by what goes on outside our little bubble. We have a lot of second homes and that means the primary homes of those second home owners are feeling the changes. And we’ve seen this change in some distressed sale in most every area. We had a home in the Sanctuary sell last week for $341 per foot. And this was a new home near the mountain area. Others are affected too. There’s been some recent sales in the Fish Creek area that were second homes as well. And were seeing it near the Steamboat ski area too where some places like Eagleridge townhomes are seeing way to many distressed properties.
The good news is there properties are selling. Most of them anyways.
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Tags: Case Shiller index, colorado, Foreclosed homes, foreclosures, Great deal, real estate, rocky mountains, steamboat real estate, steamboat springs, steamboat springs real estate
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