Purchase Pies With A Purpose - Pie In The Sky & Project Angel Heart

Purchase pies with a purpose this Thanksgiving!  I’ve set a goal to sell 50 pies to help Project Angel Heart.  Please help me reach my goal by purchasing a Pie by 11/16.  Each pie purchased goes towards the preparation and delivery of THREE nutritious, medically tailored meals to fellow Coloradans living with life-threatening illnesses like cancer, multiple sclerosis, and HIV/AIDS.  As we near the  Holiday season, these pies are great gifts, party or office favors, and most importantly, help support a great cause. You may pick up your pies from one of the many selected pick up locations or the Kentwood City Properties on or after Tuesday, November 21st.

Purchase Your Pies Here 👉http://angel.convio.net/site/TR?px=1110029&fr_id=1110&pg=personal 

Why you should list your home with me

I have talked a lot about why I enjoy helping buyers in today’s market as well as why buyer’s should use me as their realtor. But I realized I have never spoken about why sellers should list with me, which is the other side of the coin! I am both a buying and selling agent and I enjoy both sides even in a market that favors sellers. Selling homes is not a walk in the park, I know many sellers come to be with grand ideas of what they can get for their house and their realistic and sometimes unrealistic expectations and as their realtor, it is my job to help guide them to a good place where they can put their home on the market with confidence that it will sell in a timely manner and for the price they want. But that’s not all I do for my sellers, I also provide and experience for the potential buyers, market to the tenth degree and work to advertise not just locally but also internationally so that potential out-of-state buyers have a chance to view the property as well. I have compiled a list that I want to share with potential sellers on what my services all include from building a website about your home to a private showing with 50 agents before the home is even put on the market. Take a look at the extensive list below to see what you get when you hire me as your realtor:

HUGE LOCAL EXPOSURE

·      A custom property website will be created Kentwood's website, DenverRealEstate.com

·      A custom color property brochure will be created

·      A detailed description of the property with color photographs and a link to the website will appear in the Denver Metro Board of Realtors Multiple Listing Service

·      200 just listed cards will be mailed to area residents

·      A custom E-mail blast with photos and a link to the property website will be sent to several thousand agents (encompasses all major real estate offices in Denver)

·      A custom E-mail blast with photos and a link to the property website will be sent to over 4,000 of Brigette's personal and business contacts.

·      With the owners permission, a Broker Open House for the Entire Brokerage community will be held

·      The property will be presented to over 50 agents during the Tuesday Tour office meeting

·      With the owners permission, a For Sale sign will be placed on the property

·      Cross marketing with our two other Kentwood offices

·      Co-Listed With Jay Modglin of Modglin Real Estate Group

·      Open Houses with custom marketing and e-flyers the week before the open house

PRINT ADVERTISING

·      Custom property postcards will be designed and mailed to the area.

·      Full color, double sided outside brochures

·      Just listed cards to the neighborhood

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INTERNATIONAL AND 24 HOUR EXPOSURE

·      The property will be listed on ReColorado.com MLS .

·      Personal website for your home

·      Website marketing on Realtor.com, Homesnap Trulia.com, REColorado.com, REDFIN, Zillow.com, and all the other top housing search engines.

·      Postings on social media..Homesnap, Facebook, etc.

·      Personal blog about your home on my website

·      The property will be featured on the Internet on Brigette Modglin's social networks:

·      Facebook.com: @BrigetteModglin @DenverChitChat

·      Twitter.com @BrigetteModglin

·      Instagram.com @BrigetteModglin @DenverChitChat

If the above reasons check off your must-haves when hiring a realtor to sell your home, then give me a call today! I would love to take you for coffee and have a chance to walk through your home and discuss what I would recommend to get your home market ready. I look forward at the opportunity of helping you sell your home!

How shiplap walls can make an ordinary wall extraordinary

While many people like to renovate their homes in the summer, as a busy real estate agent I usually don’t get around to my own home until the fall or winter. I find it can be a good time to work on my house because there isn’t the craziness of summer and I can give some good time to my designs and ideas while also finding the right contractors to help make my vision become a reality.

I am really loving the farmhouse chic look right now, if anyone out there watches HGTV’s ‘Fixer Upper’ with Chip and Joanna, you will understand that like Joanna, I have a love for shiplap. For those of you who do not know what shiplap is, let me explain. Shiplap is a horizontal pattern of interlocking wooden boards. Traditionally, this style was used to build sheds and barns and is usually painted a solid color. They are a great way to add a little something extra to an ordinary wall and they give amazing character to your home without costing you an arm and a leg. And you want to know the best thing about installing shiplap walls in your house? You can do them yourself! That’s right, DIY shiplap walls are easy to assemble (you might need a partner, and of course the right tools so reach out to the handy people in your life and ask to borrow a few!) on your own and all you need are the following supplies:

·      plywood underlayment, ripped down to planks (the sizes will range with the size of your wall so make sure to measure everything)

·      3″x1/4″x4′ poplar “hobby boards”, aka battens

·      Sander with medium grit paper

·      Stud finder

·      Nail gun with 2” brad nails (you could hammer them but geez, it’ll take a while)

·      Paintable spackle/wood filler

·      Miter saw, table saw, circular saw, or jigsaw (we used a jigsaw because that’s all we had then)

·      Speed square and pencil

·      Primer

·      Paint

·      Coins as spacers

·      Painting supplies (tarp, brushes, etc.)

For step-by-step instructions, I looked to the blogs to find how to do it all and where I would need help. The one I liked best was good old Home Depot (they really know their stuff there so if you have any questions, make sure to ask someone at the store you get your supplies from!) - http://blog.homedepot.com/how-to-install-shiplap-walls/

There are so many great DIY projects you can work on this fall and winter in your home. I am excited to get these walls up and see how they change the look of my home!

Creative DIY Costumes for the Whole Family

Halloween is just around the corner and if you don’t have your costume yet, listen up! It’s always hard to figure out good and creative costumes these days and if you are like me and my family, you live a pretty busy life and Halloween just seems to sneak up on you before you are fully prepared. As a kid, it is much easier to come up with quick and cute costumes. But the older you get, the harder it can be especially when you want your costume to be either work or grown-up appropriate. My daughter and I have dressed up in mother/daughter costumes before but this year she decided to dress up as Wonder Woman (which I might follow suite in to be honest). For those of you that have to go to a work Halloween party where dressing up is encouraged, I have come up with some creative costumes that won’t take much time or much money to put together.

·      The white rabbit from Alice in Wonderland – This is easy for the ladies out there. All you need is a white dress and a red blazer. Add a blue bow tie and some white ears, possibly a clock bag and you are good to go!

·      Ladies if you have a green dress, you can attach some pieces of yarn to if and some flowers to make yourself into a cactus! Add a headband with some flowers on it and you are a prickly pear.

·      One of my favorites is the gumball machine that requires hundreds of pom poms. Find a little red dress and add a gray swatch of felt for the quarter slot. Glue the pom poms to the top half of the dress and you almost good enough to eat!

·      Medusa had a way of turning people to stone but that’s not what you’ll be doing while rocking fake snacks in your hair! Pull your hair into braids and pin them onto your head, insert fake snakes among your hair and countour those cheekbones for a fierce looking Medusa.

·      Get a clear large garbage bag, blow up some small colored balloons and what do you have? A bag full of jellybeans of course! If you can print off the Jelly Belly logo and stick it in the bag, you really are in business.

·      A great idea for a couple is silent film characters. You and your significant other can dress up in a black suite and a black dress, paint your faces white with painted on black features highlighting your lips and eyes, and carry around printed off script lines to let people know what you would be saying.

·      If you have someone in the family who can paint your face (or you have some mad make-up skills yourself!) the Dia de los Muertos skeleton faces are always a big hit.

·      The whole family could go as a squad of Emojis this year! Dress up in all black and make a cardboard cut out of your favorite smiley face emoji.

·      Bubble bath anyone? Find yourself a matching sweatshirt and sweatpants outfit preferably in white. Get some white, light pink and clear balloons and a rubber ducky. Blow up and attach the balloons to yourself and place the duck floating on one of the balloons and you have a walking bubble bath.

·      Your family just needs some cardboard, paint and pillows to go as a whole s’more kit! The parents can be the graham crackers; the kids can be the chocolate with the littlest being the marshmallow wrapped up in pillows.

There are so many great costumes out there for yourself as an individual and for your family to dress up as a group costume. Have a fun and safe Halloween everyone!

October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month

October is a great month for so many reasons, one of which being that it brings awareness to a health issue that has affected many women in my life. October is Breast Cancer Awareness month. A whole month dedicated to raising awareness, educating women and men about the disease and raising money to help contribute to finding a cure. There are so many facts about breast cancer that any people so not realize and so I decided to compile a list for those out there who want to learn more about it and help contribute and work to help find a cure:

·      The leading risk for breast cancer is simply being a woman. It is 100 times more common in women then in men.

·      1 in 8 women will be diagnosed with breast cancer in their lifetime.

·      In Colorado in 2017, 74 women will be diagnosed with breast cancer each week.

·      About 85% occurs in women who have NO family history of breast cancer (that’s why it is imperative that everyone gets checked, even if you have no family history of the disease).

·      About 1 in 1,000 men are diagnosed annually with breast cancer.

·      Breast cancer remains the second-leading cause of cancer death after lung cancer. In the United States, breast cancer deaths are second to heart disease in women.

·      Exercise reduces the risk of breast cancer for women of all body types.

·      In 2017, it's estimated that among U.S. women there will be:

o   252,710 new cases of invasive breast cancer

o   40,610 breast cancer deaths

So what can you do this month to help bring awareness? Well first off, all the women reading over the age of 40 this should go get a mammogram this month. Yes they are unpleasant and no one likes them but they are important! Here are also some events around town to participate in:

American Cancer Society Making Strides Against Breast Cancer walk

Sunday, October 22

Village Center Station, 6363 S. Fiddlers Green Circle in Greenwood Village

Real Men Wear Pink

Men from across the community are taking a stand against breast cancer by raising funds and awareness for the American Cancer Society by wearing pink during the month of October.

There have already been lots of events this month including the huge Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure in early October where thousands of participants showed up to walk/run the amazing event to raise money and awareness. If you would like to learn more about giving for the cause and good places to donate, this website has some great insight: http://www.komencolorado.org/komen-colorado/

Wear your pink clothes or your pink ribbons this month, get involved and bring awareness to this terrible disease that has taken the lives of too any wonderful women.