Jessica Side

I remember seeing old movies in which a housewife knelt on the front stoop of her modest home. Beside her stood a bucket of sudsy water. She wielded a brush in silence as she...

For a long time, multigenerational living had a reputation problem. It was the option families turned to when something had gone wrong — a job loss, a divorce, a health crisis. Moving back in...

The playbook for selling a home has changed fast. Buyers have more options, more leverage, and they are using it. Active housing inventory rose more than 16% year-over-year in 2025 — one of the...

Hi Friends, I watched a video this week that really stuck with me. The host talked about being nearly $9,600 in debt and hearing podcasters talking about becoming millionaires, and he thought, That’s a...

When most homebuyers calculate whether they can afford a new home, they focus almost exclusively on one number: the monthly mortgage payment. It’s the figure lenders qualify them for, the number discussed during showings,...

Hi Friends, My nieces, Quinn and Ashlyn, discovered two old phones at their uncle’s house on Christmas Eve. They “called” each other pretty much all evening, sometimes carrying them up and down the stairs....

Will 2026 be the year buyers stop waiting? Forecasters are split, predicting anywhere from 1.7%1 to 14%2 growth in home sales. That 12-point gap reveals the central question facing the housing market: how much...

One of my favorite Christmas stories is a true story my Irish grandmother told my mother, my mother told me, and which I now tell my own children. I sent this story in a...

Timing isn’t everything in real estate, but it can mean the difference between saving $20,000 or paying a premium, selling in 30 days or waiting three months, and negotiating from a position of strength...

Hi friends, Remember when you used to wake up on turkey day and, hoping no one spotted you in your robe and slippers, you braved the cold to bring in the local newspaper? You...