• The Best Henderson NV Neighborhoods for Rental Cash Flow

    The Best Henderson NV Neighborhoods for Rental Cash Flow,Julia Grambo

    Buying rental property in Henderson NV is one of the easier yes-es in Southern Nevada real estate. The harder question, and the one that actually decides whether you make money, is which Henderson submarket. The prestige names and the cash-flow winners are not the same neighborhoods, and confusing t

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  • Cost of Living: Las Vegas vs. Atlanta

    Cost of Living: Las Vegas vs. Atlanta,Julia Grambo

    Photo by Pedro Szekely from Los Angeles, USA · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons If you're weighing a move between Atlanta and Las Vegas, the cost of living question gets messy fast. On a broad index, Las Vegas runs about 15% cheaper than Atlanta. Once you factor in income tax, summer power bills, an

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  • Buying a Las Vegas Home with Solar Panels: Leased vs. Owned

    Buying a Las Vegas Home with Solar Panels: Leased vs. Owned,Julia Grambo

    Solar panels show up on more Las Vegas listings every year, and most buyers walk in thinking "free electricity in the desert, what's not to love?" Then they read the contract, see the word "PPA," and suddenly the deal feels a lot more complicated. This Las Vegas solar homes buying guide is the versi

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  • What to Know About Las Vegas Homes with Well Water or Septic

    What to Know About Las Vegas Homes with Well Water or Septic,Julia Grambo

    Most Las Vegas homes plug straight into city water and sewer, and the buyer never thinks twice about it. But drive far enough out, into the older horse-zoned pockets of the northwest, the rural estates south of Blue Diamond, or up into Mount Charleston, and you'll find properties that handle water a

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  • 15 Things Builders Won't Tell You About New Construction in Las Vegas

    15 Things Builders Won't Tell You About New Construction in Las Vegas,Julia Grambo

    New construction makes up roughly 25% of all Las Vegas home sales right now, and the brochures make it sound easy. Walk into a model home, pick a floor plan, sign some paperwork, move in. The reality has a lot more moving parts, and most of them aren't printed on the price flyer sitting on the kitch

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  • What to Know Before Buying a Pool Home in Las Vegas

    What to Know Before Buying a Pool Home in Las Vegas,Julia Grambo

    A pool in Las Vegas isn't a luxury the way it is in most cities. With 300+ days of sunshine and triple-digit summers, it's a daily-use amenity, a backyard centerpiece, and (if you're not careful) a meaningful operating expense you didn't budget for. This Las Vegas pool home guide walks through every

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  • How to Buy a Home in Las Vegas Sight Unseen

    How to Buy a Home in Las Vegas Sight Unseen,Julia Grambo

    Plenty of people are moving to Las Vegas sight unseen right now, and most of them end up happy. The trick isn't avoiding the remote purchase, it's knowing which Las Vegas-specific things to verify before you wire a single dollar. Done right, this is one of the easier U.S. metros to buy from a distan

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  • How to Build a Custom Home in Las Vegas

    How to Build a Custom Home in Las Vegas,Julia Grambo

    Building a custom home in Las Vegas isn't really a story about countertops and floor plans. It's a story about jurisdiction, dirt, water, and timing. Get those four right, and the house mostly takes care of itself. Get them wrong, and a $3M project can drift into a $4M project before you've poured a

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  • What to Know Before Buying a Furnished Condo in Las Vegas

    What to Know Before Buying a Furnished Condo in Las Vegas,Julia Grambo

    Photo by Mike McBey · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons Buying a furnished condo in Las Vegas sounds like the easiest move you'll ever make. Pick a tower with a view, sign the papers, walk in with a suitcase. And it can be that simple. But "furnished" does a lot of heavy lifting on local listings, and t

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  • How to Buy a Home with a VA Loan in Las Vegas

    How to Buy a Home with a VA Loan in Las Vegas,Julia Grambo

    Las Vegas is one of the most VA-friendly housing markets in the country, and most local buyers don't realize how much that works in their favor. Between Nellis, Creech, the Air Force Warfare Center, and the steady stream of veterans relocating from California, Texas, and Washington, this is a market

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  • The Best Moving Companies from California to Las Vegas

    The Best Moving Companies from California to Las Vegas,Julia Grambo

    Picking the right mover for a California-to-Las Vegas move is the difference between landing in your new house relaxed and unpacking by Friday, or losing a weekend chasing down a truck that's two days late and $1,800 over the original quote. After working with hundreds of California transplants, I c

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  • The Best Movers from LA to Las Vegas, Reviewed

    The Best Movers from LA to Las Vegas, Reviewed,Julia Grambo

    A move from Los Angeles to Las Vegas sits in a strange middle zone. It's only about 269 miles, drivable in a single afternoon, and yet the second your stuff crosses the state line at Primm, the move is technically interstate and federally regulated. That weird in-between status is exactly why so man

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  • How to Use a 1031 Exchange in Las Vegas Real Estate

    How to Use a 1031 Exchange in Las Vegas Real Estate,Julia Grambo

    A 1031 exchange is one of the few legal tools left in U.S. real estate that lets an investor sell a property, roll the entire proceeds into another one, and push the capital gains tax bill into the future. In Las Vegas, where investors have been buying and trading rentals for two decades, the mechan

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  • 55+ Communities in Las Vegas for Active Adults

    55+ Communities in Las Vegas for Active Adults,Julia Grambo

    If you're shopping for a 55 plus communities Las Vegas guide, here's the short version: the Vegas Valley has more active-adult options than almost any Sun Belt metro, and the right one for you isn't always the biggest or the most famous. The split between Sun City Summerlin, Sun City Anthem, Siena,

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  • A Brief History of Las Vegas High Rise Living

    A Brief History of Las Vegas High Rise Living,Julia Grambo

    For most of the city's history, the towers along Las Vegas Boulevard were built for tourists, not residents. The story of how they became homes (luxury homes, in many cases) is shorter than people think, and it's still being written. The Las Vegas high rise buildings history is really a story of two

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  • Why Las Vegas Mid-Rise Condos Cost Less Than High Rises

    Why Las Vegas Mid-Rise Condos Cost Less Than High Rises,Julia Grambo

    Photo by MGM Resorts International · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons Walk into a 7-story condo building south of the Strip and a 47-story tower at CityCenter, and you're looking at two completely different products even though both technically count as "vertical living" in Las Vegas. The price tags

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  • How Much Las Vegas Buyers and Sellers Pay in Closing Costs

    How Much Las Vegas Buyers and Sellers Pay in Closing Costs,Julia Grambo

    If you're buying or selling a home in Las Vegas, the price on the listing is only part of the story. The rest shows up at the closing table, and most people are genuinely surprised by what's there. Here's a plain-English breakdown of Las Vegas closing costs explained the way they actually work in Cl

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  • What Living in Las Vegas Without Gambling Actually Looks Like

    What Living in Las Vegas Without Gambling Actually Looks Like,Julia Grambo

    Most people who picture Las Vegas picture the Strip. Locals picture trailheads, splash pads, libraries, and the drive home before traffic gets bad. Living in Las Vegas without gambling is not some quiet rebellion or a niche lifestyle. For thousands of families in Summerlin, Henderson, Skye Canyon, a

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  • What Las Vegas SID and LID Fees Cost New Home Buyers

    What Las Vegas SID and LID Fees Cost New Home Buyers,Julia Grambo

    If you're buying a new construction home in Las Vegas, there's a line item that almost never shows up on Zillow estimates and almost always catches first-time buyers off guard. It's called a SID or LID fee, and depending on which community you pick, it can quietly add anywhere from $50 to $400 to yo

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  • The Best Pickleball Communities in Las Vegas

    The Best Pickleball Communities in Las Vegas,Julia Grambo

    Pickleball stopped being a side amenity in Las Vegas a few years ago. It's now one of the first things buyers ask about when they tour a community, and a few neighborhoods have responded by building real, dedicated court complexes that change how people spend their mornings here. If you're shopping

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