Buying Before the Snow: What to Check on a Flathead Home in September

Buying Before the Snow: What to Check on a Flathead Home in September Here's a question for anyone touring homes in the valley right now: what would this house look like on the second week of January, at ten below, with two feet on the roof? Because a house shown in September tells you almost nothin

When One Spouse Won't Cooperate with the Sale

When One Spouse Won't Cooperate with the Sale The hardest calls I take in this work don't start with a question about price. They start with some version of this: the decision to sell has already been made — by agreement, by attorneys, or by a judge — and one person has simply stopped participating.

The Fall Window: What September Does to Flathead Prices

If you've had your home on the market this summer and it hasn't sold, somebody has probably already told you the same thing: pull it, wait for spring, relist in April. Here's the question worth asking before you take that advice: what do you actually believe happens between now and then? Because the

First Light: Why the Day Starts Before the Day Starts

First Light: Why the Day Starts Before the Day Starts Here's a question worth asking about anyone you're thinking of hiring: what were they doing three hours before you called them? Not in a nosy way. In a practical one. Because by the time you pick up the phone with a real question — an offer deadl