Your Valuable Home

In our Replay today, Kevin provides sound advice on how to vet and hire a house painter.

In today’s Horror Story, the choice of the wrong painter

results in a huge mess.

Our Featured segment today focuses on Eight Days of Hope, a faith-based organization of volunteers who have helped victims of natural disasters in Florida, Hawaii, and elsewhere rebuild.

Most recently, Eight Days of Hope expanded its mission to help young female victims of one of the most horrendous human disasters of our time — human trafficking.

This is an inspirational story told by Eight Days of Hope founder and former ProVia® executive, Steve Tybor.

In our Replay today, Jon Lapp, our sponsor Provia’s Product Manager for

Siding briefs us on the newest addition to the ProVia siding line – Harbor

Mill shingle and shake siding. Jon talks about how ProVia uses laser

technology to mimic the look and feel of real wood, the architectural styles

most suited to Harbor Mill, the myriad available colors, ease of installation,

etc., etc. If you’re thinking about re-siding your home, you need to listen to

this.

In the Horror Story, we relate the sorry tale of a homeowner who

shelled out a lot of money for an addition that didn’t happen. The

contractor then asked for more money to start. Unreal!!!

In our Feature today, we learn about the co-ownership of lux vacation homes with Chad Graven from Pacaso, a company with such a compelling business model

and a collection of outstanding homes that Pacaso scored a $1 billion

valuation six months after startup. WOW!!!

In the Replay, Mike talks about the progress made on his project, the entire

house reno. In the horror story, Mike discusses the added issues from the previous contractor, you won’t believe what he did. Working our way down the California coast, we get a briefing from Heather Chadwell on the stable real estate market of Newport Beach, where the prices of many of the homes are in the stratosphere. Then on to the last stop on the Your Valuable Home Real Estate RoundUp 2023, San Diego, where real estate pro, Gabe Mendez, reports on an ongoing seller’s market. Despite low inventory and high-interest rates, Gabe points out some areas by zip code that remain values for younger buyers.

In this weeks replay, Kevin and Ron talk about the rising costs of permits. In the horror story is Not the Bad Guy Bulletin, it is the Bad appliance Bulletin! In the feature segment, the Real estate round up in heading to California, Suzi Farajiani, expects a tight seller's market to continue for some time. The good news here is that there are also towns in the LA area where homes are affordable by middle-income house hunters.

In the Replay of the Week, PA realtor, Jeff Parkins, has terrific advice about hunting for a new home in a seller’s market made more complex by rising interest rates and home prices. Relying on Jeff’s skills and tenacity, legendary performer, Kim Sledge beat the dynamics of the current real estate market in the Philadelphia area and found a great place to downsize. The Bad Guy Bulletin is about a ray of hope in the disheartening world of customer service, where the cost is often passed on to the customer. Our sponsor, ProVia, gets an “A” for human contact, an element often missing in customer service today. And EIN Presswire, the company that distributes press releases for Your Valuable Home, gets an “A” for a great customer service system. After leaving a message for a callback during off hours in the U.S., within minutes, Ron got a call from a diligent customer service pro in Italy. In the Real Estate Roundup this week, Scott Abernathy shares his invaluable knowledge and insights into the market for residential rentals. Is now the time to buy a rental property? Listen and learn. Scott also has words of wisdom about the hottest Tennessee markets for wannabe homeowners.

In the Replay today, ProVia’s Alyssa Hostetler takes us through the ProVia web-based Envision system that helps homeowner visualize how

combinations of ProVia products for the exterior of the home work together on homes of different architectural styles and on their home,. It’s a

marvelous way to visualize the possibilities. And in the Horror Story, Kevin verbally spars with a contractor in the process of installing windows the wrong way. In the Feature today, we keep on working our way around the country with stops in St. Petersburg, FL and New York, New York...two

markets where people keep buying and prices keep rising.

In the Replay today, Scott, from Our Sponsor ProVia, is in the studio to brief our listeners on ProVia’s superb metal roofing. It’s a one-and-done roofing system available in slate, shake and barrel tile styles, and it comes with a limited lifetime warranty. In today’s Horror Story, we learn why a contractor had to be convinced that removing the nailing flange from a new window was a big mistake. Wow! In this the third episode featuring our 2023 cross country Real Estate Roundup, we learn about hot markets in North Carolina...Wilmington on the coast, just above Myrtle Beach, and the inland Raleigh Durham area known as Research Triangle.