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When preparing to sell your home, the outside matters just as much as what’s inside. Learning how to stage your outdoor space to sell can help create a memorable first impression, boost curb appeal, and make buyers feel emotionally connected before they even walk through the front door. From refreshing landscaping to creating cozy gathering areas, thoughtful outdoor staging can help your home stand out in a competitive market. In this Redfin guide, we’ll share expert-backed tips for transforming your yard, patio, porch, or garden into a space buyers can easily picture themselves enjoying. Whether you’re preparing a bungalow in…
Closing costs aren’t just a buyer’s concern. Sellers pay their own set of fees when a home sale closes, including title fees, transfer taxes, escrow charges, and other costs that are deducted directly from their proceeds. But there’s an important distinction sellers should understand before listing their home: closing costs and total cost to sell are not the same thing. Seller closing costs run around 1–3% of the sale price. Once agent compensation, repairs, moving expenses, and other selling costs are factored in, the total cost to sell is often much higher. The current housing market can also affect how…
In This Article If “Texas is a state of mind,” as author John Steinbeck once famously said, many people are thinking alike. New data from the U.S. Census shows that the five fastest-growing cities in the nation from July 1, 2024, to July 1, 2025, are all in the Lone Star State. This growth is led by Celina, a suburb north of Dallas, whose population increased by nearly 25% in a single year, climbing to 64,427 residents. By comparison, the overall U.S. population increased by only 0.5%. “The main reason for the extra boom and development is almost purely related…
Millions of Gen Z graduates are convinced they’ve drawn the short straw of the labor market: ghosting is rife in recruiting, entry-level roles feel scarce, and predictions of an AI job apocalypse are making it all worse. Yet Arvind Jain, ex-Google engineer and Rubrik co-founder, says he’s facing the opposite problem. “Students think it’s hard to find jobs, but we think it’s hard to find them,” he told Fortune. And it’s not because the applications aren’t coming in. In fact, Jain said his $7.2 billion AI startup, Glean, is receiving thousands of job applications every day. And the no.1 thing…
Want to retire with rentals so you can buy back your time and travel the world? Despite a successful 35-year engineering career, today’s guest was still financially dependent on her nine-to-five—until she pivoted to real estate investing. In just four years, she has bought four rental properties and left her W-2 job for good.When Sandy Lee’s 50th birthday arrived, she realized she wasn’t quite where she wanted to be in life. At a crossroads in her career and still needing at least another five years at her current job before retirement, Sandy was ready for a drastic change (and a…
In 1974, New York Times humorist Russell Baker identified a “pig in the python” working its way through the economy: the bulge of 76 million Baby Boomers squeezing through America’s economic system, distorting everything they passed through. When Boomers flooded the labor market in the 1970s, they created a competitive squeeze that never fully released — leaving the generations behind them without the wage rebound economists had predicted. When they bought homes, prices soared. When they took the top jobs in business, culture, and civic life, they held them — and held them, and held them. For half a century,…
The U.S. has a dire shortage of skilled tradespeople. A school in Huntsville, Ala., is attempting to replenish the talent pool—one teenager at a time. The Huntsville Center for Technology (HCT) is a new $40 million facility where 700 students leave their traditional high school for part of the day to receive industry-standard training. The school, which will send off its first graduates this spring, features a specialized “Inditech” program developed through a direct partnership with Toyota Alabama, supported by a $1 million investment from Toyota’s charitable endowment. The school’s principal, Zac Mcwhorter, told Fortune the program launched as a…
It’s no surprise that the SpaceX offering statement, filed the evening of May 20, shows that as of today, the rocket, satellite and AI enterprise sports tiny revenues and books large losses. That its market cap following the IPO slated for mid-June’s expected to hit $1.5 trillion or more highlights that its fans are basing their overwhelming optimism almost exclusively on great things to come. But a careful reading of the S-1 reveals substantial barriers in the path to achieving the sorcerous performance required to reward shareholders who flock to the most anticipated debut ever seen. The reason isn’t simply…
In This Article In the quest to boost homeownership, a new bill has been floated that could gain enough bipartisan support to take flight: a tax-free homeownership savings account. For potential investors, should the bill pass, it offers a low barrier to entry to begin their investing careers. Targeting First-Time Homebuyers, but It Helps Newbie Investors Too Representative Haley Stevens (D-Mich.) has just introduced the Homeownership Savings Act (H.R. 9709), which aims to help first-time homebuyers save for a down payment and closing costs. Eligible buyers could deduct their contributions from taxable income (within set limits) and withdraw them tax-free,…
In This Article Name Cameron Philgreen Location Waco, Texas Occupation Full-time real estate investor & coffee shop owner Assets 25 properties, 35 units Investment strategy BRRRR, long-term rentals, flips, commercial Financing Private Money Lender In 2018, Cameron and his wife bought their first property in Lawrence, Kansas, a three-bedroom house they would Airbnb room by room to cover the mortgage. Cameron worked as a wedding photographer. Fast-forward to today: Cameron now owns 25 properties totaling 35 units, a specialty coffee shop, and has a 50,000-square-foot commercial redevelopment underway in Waco, Texas. Here’s how he built his sprawling portfolio. How did…