Author: Lee Riley

The crocuses are coming! The crocuses are coming! As I look out from my deck to the flower bed below, flowers are starting to pop up all over. Thankfully we have had a little moisture over the past few days. This winter was very strange; heavy snow in December and almost nothing since. El Nino […]

It feels like spring out there! We are experiencing warmer than usual temperatures in Pagosa with lots of sunshine. The Spring Break crowd will be coming to town over the next three weeks, so it’s a good thing we still have plenty of snow up on the mountain. The snowpack is currently sitting at 96% […]

Well, winter is half over. December was very snowy, January had almost no snow, and now it is dumping on us again in February. I got almost a foot of snow at my house in the past couple of days, and Wolf Creek is reporting 40 inches of new snow from the last storm. Our […]

It’s very white outside. El Nino is in full swing. We got a big storm around Christmas and then a second one just after New Year’s. Wolf Creek has been getting multiple feet of snow at a time. We’ve got sunny skies now, but all this snow won’t be going anyway anytime soon. Town was […]

Wildlife, downtown Pagosa Springs on a snowy day.

Even though winter is still officially a couple of weeks away, outside it feels like it is already here. At 7:00 a.m. the skies were clear and it was 12 degrees, which was very refreshing when I jumped into the hot tub outside my bedroom door. That’s pretty typical for this time of year. Speaking […]

Better Homeowners One-button Pricing?  An Automated Valuation Model, AVM, is a computer approach that looks at public records to make a determination based on square footage, comparable sales and other elements. It is as easy as putting your address in a blank but unfortunately, AVM results may only be accurate about 20% of the time. A […]

Better Homeowners Resource Central  Homeowners should recognize that the same trusted professional who helped them buy or sell their home can be a valuable resource while they own their home too. Think of your REALTOR® as an indispensable homeowner’s resource who can make recommendations about a variety of services that homeowners will use throughout the […]

It has been a beautiful fall. Temperatures were above average, and the colors were prettier than usual. Wolf Creek opened on Halloween with minimal snow, but they got a good dump of 20 inches over the past couple of days. We even got a couple inches here in town, but that will melt quickly. Even […]

Better Homeowners At least consider a shorter one  Affordability and stability are reasons homebuyers choose a 30-year fixed rate mortgage. It makes the payment lower than a 15-year mortgage and the principal and interest portion of the payment will be constant for 30 years. A common belief among homeowners for decades was that they would always […]