Prepping Your Home for Fall: 2025
Prepping your home for Fall in Colorado Springs is essential—with crisp mornings, colorful aspens, earlier sunsets, and the first light snow possible by October, proactive maintenance prevents issues and keeps energy costs down during our variable shoulder season. Our elevation means rapid temperature drops (70s by day, 30s at night) and dry winds that strip […]
Fun Fact Friday 📺 8/1/2025
Hey Friends,Welcome to August. How did that happen?! I’ve got 4 fun facts for you today. (1 is interesting and 3 aren’t very “fun”, but they come from one of my favorite analysts so I think you’ll find them insightful. I hope you have a great weekend! Blessings, Andrew Fun Fact 1: YouTube now owns 12.5% of all U.S. […]
Fun Fact Friday 🏊🏼♀️ 7/25/2025
Hey Friends,I’ve got 4 fun facts for you today. I hope you have a great weekend! Blessings, Andrew Fun Fact 1: Colorado and Texas are nearly tied for the 4th most expensive state as the cost of home insurance keeps rising. (Hawaii should be on the list but I think they only counted the lower 48.) Source: Homes(.)com […]
Fun Fact Friday 🌱 7/18/2025
Hey Friends,I’ve got 4 fun facts for you today. Most of them focus on recent Colorado Springs market trends. I hope you have a great weekend! Blessings, Andrew Fun Fact 1: There are more than 600 million mobile money accounts in the world, mostly in Africa. (Mobile money differs from traditional bank accounts; you don’t […]
Fun Fact Friday 🚂 7/11/2025
Hey Friends,I’ve got 4 fun facts for you today. I hope you have a great weekend! Blessings, Andrew Fun Fact 1: 71.3% of U.S. mortgage borrowers have an interest rate under 5.0% Source: Lance Lamber; Federal Housing Finance Agency Fun Fact 2: The difference in cost between buying a house and renting has reached the highest level on record. Today, […]
Fun Fact Friday 🇺🇸 7/4/2025
Hey Friends,Happy Independence Day! I have 3 fun facts for you today. I hope you have a great 4th of July! Blessings, Andrew Fun Fact 1: Thomas Jefferson was the strongest and most eloquent writer and was charged with putting together the original draft for the Declaration of Independence. There were a total of 86 changes that were made […]
MLS vs Zillow in Colorado Springs: Why Realtor MLS Search is More Accurate
When it comes to searching for homes, it can seem that it is a battle between MLS vs Zillow in Colorado Springs. It is true that many buyers start with Zillow, Redfin, or Realtor.com for convenience. But as a local realtor with The Bacon Partners, I’ve seen sellers get excited about Zillow’s “1,200+ views” only […]
Fun Fact Friday 🌅 6/27/2025
Hey Friends,I have 3 fun facts for you today. Have a great weekend! Blessings, Andrew Fun Fact 1: Redfin has reported that in April of this year, there were nearly 500,000 more U.S. home sellers than U.S. homebuyers. Source: Lance Lambert via Redfin analysis Fun Fact 2: In Colorado Springs, May listings saw 38 days on the market, on […]
Fun Fact Friday 🧐 6/20/2025
Hey Friends,I have 4 fun facts for you today. Have a great weekend! Blessings, Andrew Fun Fact 1: There are currently over 8,000 real estate agents in Colorado Springs according to the Homes.com database. Competition is fierce. To survive as the single income earner for my family, I have to be good at what I do. Here […]
Fun Fact Friday 📈 6/13/2025
Hey Friends,I have 4 fun facts for you today. Have a great weekend and Happy Father’s Day to all you dads out there! Blessings, Andrew Fun Fact 1: Nobody knows what the S&P 500 or the Dow Jones Industrial Average will do tomorrow. Or next week. Or next month. Or over the next year. But we […]