As many of my friends of asked, how can you afford to drive your clients around in your gas guzzling V8 Nissan Titan? The short answer is I can’t. The long answer is if I do my job right and qualify and prescreen homes for my clients, it shouldnt take weeks of driving around the Denver metro area. Eventually, I want to buy a hybrid for real estate activities, but in the mean time…there is a new program at King Soopers.

As I gassed up today at my local King Soopers, I noticed that they are advertising a new discount program that will save you 10c a gallon with your King Soopers card. Not a bad deal! Safeway and King Soopers announced Monday that they are reinstating gasoline discount programs based on grocery purchases shortly after Gov. Bill Ritter signed into law a bill that allows the sale of gasoline at below-cost prices. For the record, neither my family or myself work for or with King Soopers, just passing along some gas savings ideas for my readers.

Hard to imagine spring, with Denver buried in snow, but it’s never too late to prepare for gardening projects and sunny weather. Imagine being able to learn about trees, buy one for $20 or free if unable to pay, and even have the chance to volunteer to help our neighbors plant their trees. Well this is a great program and you need to know about it!

The neighborhoods targeted for 2007 which include free waivers are: Baker Barnum Barnum West Cole Clayton Elyria/Swansea Five Points Globeville Jefferson Park Lincoln Park NE Park Hill Skyland Sunnyside Valverde Villa Park West Colfax Westwood Whittier

The Park People, a private non-profit organization, preserves, enhances, and advocates for Denver’s parks, recreation resources, open space and urban forest.

The Denver Digs Trees program is a volunteer-driven, community-based effort to increase the number of street trees across Denver. Nearly 30,000 public trees have been added to Denver’s streets through our efforts. The Denver Digs Trees program is conducted in partnership with the Denver Parks & Recreation Department.

The application can be downloaded here.Good news, the deadline for the free tree application has been extended to March 9, 2007.

This morning I did a market analysis for an investor friend of mine for Green Valley Ranch. This newer Denver Community is located in northeast Denver and is very close to DIA. Lots of new retail is being built there. Green Valley Ranch Real Estate offers solid homes at affordable prices for first time home buyers and Denver Real Estate Investors.
The comparables I ran were for houses with a minimum of 1300 sq ft, 3bed (or more) and 2 bath (or more). Sales history went back 12 mos. The following is the AVERAGE.

• Original $224,813
• Sales $210,409
• Diff % 91.4
• DOM 110 Days on Market
• Sq Ft 1899
• $ per sq ft 111
• Net $205,417

If you are looking to buy or sell a Green Valley Home and would like to learn more about our FREE services, pls call 303-475-1500.

You cant ask for better weather. Sunny, warm and in the middle of November. Bike ride around Sloan’s Lake provided these pics. Lots of new development from scrape offs surrounding the perimeter.

Thanks for visiting my site and if you happen to know of anyone looking to buy or sell Sloan’s Lake Homes or Denver real estate, please pass along my e-mail jay ATkey2denverhomes DOT com or my number – 303.475.1500