5 Hygienic Renovations for Selling Rehoboth Beach, DE Homes
Last week, area homeowners who plan on selling their Rehoboth Beach, DE homes might have discovered some promising ideas for making the most of today’s pandemic-spawned health concerns. The ideas came in a video presented by realtor.com, which introduced some newly popular renovations aimed at helping “Coronavirus-Proof” homes. Since they are designed to reduce the transmission of germs of all kinds, the tips could also spur the interest of homeowners who won’t be selling their Rehoboth Beach, DE homes anytime soon. The five ideas:
1. Replace bathroom faucets and soap dispensers with new touchless models. If you’ve ever puzzled about how to turn on a faucet to do your 20-second hand-washing without contaminating the handle with your unwashed fingers—worry no more!
2. Install smart lighting. Contact-free lighting eliminates the spread of microbes on light switches, which experts agree is a leading germ transmission source. Smart lighting systems also cut electricity usage.
3. Buy a patio heater. Get-togethers are safer outdoors, so being able to move entertaining out into the open air in chilly weather makes safer socializing possible.
4. Upgrade to a bidet. New models that “rinse and blow-dry” are environmentally friendly (and one way to put an end to toilet paper shortage angst!).
5. Consider installing a sanitizing closet. New “smart closets” are designed to create self-cleaning wardrobes by disinfecting clothing. New varieties can be equipped with ultraviolet lighting, air jets, or ozone technology. Increasingly adopted by retail clothing stores, this technology is now making the leap to the residential market.
For any homeowner who will be selling their Rehoboth Beach, DE home in today’s germ-conscious environment, adopting these hygienic renovations would have the advantage of creating timely, promotable selling points. Call me anytime to discuss more on how we are meeting the challenges of successfully selling Rehoboth Beach, DE homes in today’s rapidly changing market! Call/Text me Russell Stucki at (302) 228-7871, email me at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., visit more listings at www.beachrealestatemarket.com.
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Motley Fool Recommends a “Drawback” for Rehoboth Beach, DE Investors
Ever since its founding nearly 30 years ago, Rehoboth Beach, DE investors have been entertained and educated by The Motley Fool—the financial and investing advice company known for its good-humored “foolish take” on stock market matters. The firm started out by publishing a run-of-the-mill newsletter but burst into national prominence through a series of creative April Fool’s messages hyping a fictitious sewage-disposal company’s stock. The series mercilessly mocked penny stock promotions.
Through the ensuing years, the company’s output has garnered both champions and detractors. Nevertheless, through thick and thin, the Fool has steadfastly retained its light-hearted tone.
Real estate investing has long been one of its central topics, even generating a specialized sub-brand called millionacres. Rehoboth Beach, DE investors who have checked in from time to time on the publicly accessible portion of its site have read answers to topics like “Is Real Estate a Good Investment?” (“The short answer is ‘yes’”) and “How to Invest in Real Estate” (there are “dozens of paths”).
Their research can yield solid nuggets that Rehoboth Beach, DE investors find valuable—like a Federal Reserve paper that shows real estate has historically generated rates of return comparable to stocks and equities but with much lower volatility. In the same discussion promoting real estate as a “core pillar” of any investment portfolio is a typically “foolish” (and startling) idea—that real estate investments have a hidden benefit: illiquidity!
Normally, the lack of liquidity—that is, that it takes time and effort to turn Rehoboth Beach, DE real estate investments into cash—is listed as a major drawback. Whereas a Wall Street stock investment can be easily sold at a moment’s notice, the opposite is true for real estate. But the Fools take the opposite point of view—and they have a good point. The financial barriers that are built into real estate investments practically force a long-term perspective. They prevent decisions made in haste, based on fear or greed—thus keeping panicky investors from becoming their own worst enemy. The upshot is to imbue real estate investments with “the most powerful wealth-building tool ever imagined: compounded annual returns.”
Rehoboth Beach, DE real estate offers strategic wealth-building possibilities for end-of-year investors. Call me for more on the current opportunities! Call/Text me Russell Stucki at (302) 228-7871, email me at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., visit more listings at www.beachrealestatemarket.com.
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How Will Pandemic Fallout Affect Residential Real Estate?
“To understand the future, we must focus on what real estate does for people.”
That deceptively simple quote underlies the central proposition in this month’s Editor’s Pick by Forbes magazine—an essay by Bill Conerly that assesses possible future directions for residential real estate. Since residential real estate in Rehoboth Beach, DE is our daily pursuit, any and all glimmerings about its future get our attention.
His observations assessed some of the jarring transformations in how people “live, work, shop, and enjoy life” stemming from this year’s pandemic. While acknowledging that the Covid-19 health threat won’t last forever, he suspects that some of the current adjustments will create new attitudes that will linger—that the emergency has “taught us some lessons about how we live.” They are lessons that may change a fair number of people’s residential real estate preferences.
Some of the ‘lessons’:
· Many people find that they don’t really need to go to the office to get work done.
· Because of the fallout from the health crisis, city life “became a drag.”
· People who began to work from home increased their appreciation of areas that could accommodate office space—thus gravitating to larger homes.
· Growth in the popularity of gardening increased the desirability of yard space, “even in townhouses and apartments.”
What became clear to many was a fact of life that registers on individuals from time to time, but which now revealed itself to just about everyone simultaneously: namely, that major changes in circumstances lead people to reassess what is important to them.
Bottom line: although inertia will prevent massive movement of people, future growth will favor localities that deliver a “great quality of life.” If Conerly’s “lessons” prove out, that’s one future effect from this year’s upsets that should stand Rehoboth Beach, DE in good stead. For now and in the future, I’ll be standing by to provide help and guidance for all your Rehoboth Beach, DE residential real estate needs. Call anytime! Call/Text me Russell Stucki at (302) 228-7871, email me at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., visit more listings at www.beachrealestatemarket.com.
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Rehoboth Beach, DE Residential Questions Meet the Summer Silly Season
This year may go into the history books as the one that sprang more surprises and turnarounds—including unparalleled disruptions and resumptions in Rehoboth Beach, DE residential commerce —than ever before. Amidst a financial world recovering from the steepest nosedive since the Great Depression, followed by the steepest single-month rebound in history, you might think that the real estate commentators would double down to bring readers their most penetrating analyses and prognostications.
But keep in mind that August is journalism’s traditional Silly Season. It’s also the end of the month, when reporters, editors, and publishers are most likely to abandon ship for a few weeks. It’s been an exhausting year for them, too, so it shouldn’t be surprising if at least some of the airwaves and news columns deliver the traditional less-than-compelling space fillers.
Against this background, last week, realtor.com tackled an inquiry that readers seeking guidance for their Rehoboth Beach, DE residential real estate endeavors would not have found in other seasons. Its headline posed the quandaries under investigation: “Why Did J. Lo and A-Rod Pick a $40 Million Mansion on Star Island? Is it Only for Stars?”
Disappointingly, the answers unearthed to these two of the summer’s least burning real estate questions were less than conclusive.
One example was how “perhaps” preceded some of the answers: for instance, “Perhaps that’s what attracted the power couple.” The “that” was the fact that the seller had “renovated and expanded the home to make it even grander.”
Even more speculative was, “it’s unclear if they’re just playing the real estate odds, or if they actually fell for the area…” Unclear, too, was whether the markdown of the single-acre estate (lowered from last year’s asking price of $65 million to $39,950,000) might lend credibility to another speculation: “It could be that home-flipping is their new pastime.”
As for the second question posed in the probe’s headline—“Is it [Star Island] Only for Stars?” the answer is maybe. Or maybe not. The artificial island was built by the Army in 1922, and for sure, stars (Shaquille O’Neal, Sean Combs, Gloria Estefan, among others) are in residence. But there are also regular, run-of-the-mill non-stars who happen to have the millions to spend for a residence with “quick and easy access to Miami Beach, the airport, and the best restaurants in South Beach.” It turns out that the sale isn’t even final, so the answers to either mystery may not be forthcoming, even after the editors return to their posts.
However, when it comes to more relevant questions that are closer to home, I supply answers that aren’t speculative in the least. Call anytime! Call/Text me Russell Stucki at (302) 228-7871, email me at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., visit more listings at www.beachrealestatemarket.com.
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