The Brick Ranch- Where every corner tells your story.
Welcome to The Brick Ranch — a lifestyle hub for women navigating housing transitions with grace, style, and purpose. Whether you’re downsizing, aging in place, or simply reimagining your home, we’re here to help you create spaces that reflect who you are and what matters most.
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Thinking About Painting the Exterior Brick of your Huber Heights Ranch Home? I wish you wouldn’t. Here’s why.
I know. I know. Painting the exterior of a brick ranch home can indeed give it a fresh, modern look. Some brick coloration does look more dated than others and the foreclosed house down the street just had some flipper paint the brick and it looks so new! I get it. I do. But before you jump in, let me ask you to seriously think about it.
Confidence Is the Key to Success for Young Homebuyers in Huber Heights
Buying your first home can seem overwhelming. Thankfully, there’s a lot of great information out there to help you feel more confident as you learn about the process. For those in younger generations who aspire to buy, here are three things to consider sooner rather than later in your journey:
Huber Heights Community Garage Sale, June 11-14, 2020
Huber Heights is continuing their Community Wide Garage Sale this year, on June 11-14, 2020.
Will Home Values Appreciate or Depreciate in 2020?
With the housing market staggered to some degree by the health crisis the country is currently facing, some potential purchasers are questioning whether home values will be impacted. The price of any item is determined by supply as well as the market’s demand for that item.
Just Another Market Monday: May 11, 2020
This weekly market report represents reported sales and real estate activity for the week of May 3, 2020 through May 10, 2020, as compiled by Teri Lussier, The Home Group Realty, and as reported in the Dayton Area Board of Realtors MLS, by all members.
Older LGBT Citizens and the 2020 Census
SAGE, the advocacy and support group for older LGBT persons, has an interesting discussion about the 2020 Census and what it means to the LGBT community: For the first time, the 2020 Census will add specific checkboxes for same-sex couples to identify themselves in...
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Buying a Home in Huber Heights: Do You Know the Lingo? [INFOGRAPHIC]
Buying a home in Huber Heights can be intimidating if you’re not familiar with the terms used throughout the process.
Armstrong Heritage Brick Flooring is Back
You’ve seen this flooring, perhaps you hated it, but it is possibly the best selling resilient flooring of the 20th Century and now Armstrong is bringing it back in four new colorways.
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What You Can Do to Get Your Huber Heights Home Ready to Sell [INFOGRAPHIC]
Believe it or not, there are lots of things you can do to prep your Huber Heights home for a sale without even going to the store.
Why Home Equity Is a Bright Spark in the Housing Market
In essence, the amount of equity homeowners have today positions them to be in a much better place than they were in 2008. And on a very local level, part of what happened in Dayton was in a large part due to the major employers shutting down or moving out of the area. GM shut down, NCR moved its headquarters- the impact of low equity and foreclosures and major employers moving out was more than the region could absorb.