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Selling Your Home When Getting Divorced: When, How, and Who to Consider
Moving in Different Directions: When couples decide to part ways through divorce, one significant question often arises: Should we sell...
Elisa Cool Murphy
3 min read
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A Doggone Smitten Team
Did you know that Team Cool Murphy is dedicated to finding homes for dogs as well as people. Meet the realtors and their doggos.
Elisa Cool Murphy
4 min read
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Shake It Off: Downsizing Tips to Thrive at 59+
Over 59 and ready to embrace freedom in your next chapter? 🌟 Don't miss these downsizing tips! 🚀 #SimplifyLife #BabyBoomers
Elisa Cool Murphy
4 min read
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The Secret to Buying Real Estate in 2023
2023 brings good news. Not on the horizon, but right now by smart buyers who know how.
Elisa Cool Murphy
24 min read
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3 Reasons Couples Bail On Their Home Search
Has the excitement of finding your dream home started to lose its sparkle? There comes a time in most homebuyers' journeys when decision...
Sara Skjerli
3 min read
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How To Help Your Kids Move - Tips From A Military Mom
Moving with children can be an adventure. Karen Cool is an educator and a military mom who moved her family seven times in seventeen years.
Elisa Cool Murphy
2 min read
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Got Real Estate Anxiety?
How to stop buggin when you're buying or selling your property. AKA how to cope with real estate stress.
Elisa Cool Murphy
7 min read
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How to Find those French Quarter Colors
How to find the exact shades of paint you find in the French Quarter in New Orleans and where to get them.
Elisa Cool Murphy
4 min read
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WTF is an FHA Loan?
You may have heard that many first-time home buyers use a mortgage product called an FHA loan when purchasing their first home. But what...
Elisa Cool Murphy
6 min read
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5 Ways to Manage Moving Stress
Many of us are taught to toughen up or slap on a smile whether we feel like it or not. Yet, mental health experts will tell you this is...
Elisa Cool Murphy
5 min read
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How to Rock a Hurricane
Hundreds of thousands of years ago, Mother Nature dolled out an X factor to every corner of the planet; ours is hurricanes. I can hear...
Elisa Cool Murphy
8 min read
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Crime & Real Estate
The top three questions I get asked as a realtor, when shopping with new home buyers, are as follows: How's the market? What's...
Elisa Cool Murphy
5 min read
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Inspections & Appraisals: It's Perfectly Normal
It's time to start thinking of a home as a living, breathing being. A series of interconnected parts and systems that make it function....
Elisa Cool Murphy
3 min read
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Renters Move-In Checklist
Moving seems easy. But, when the clock starts, and you've got to get a lot done, it's easy to forget. Don't worry, just use this checklist!
Elisa Cool Murphy
3 min read
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Three Ways to Freshen Up Your Home
Home feeling stale? Not ready for a big overhaul but bored with your surroundings? Me too! So I chatted with Lindsay Tassin the founder and
Elisa Cool Murphy
2 min read
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Know Your Rights - Real Estate During Phase 1
What does Phase 1 of COVID mean for real estate, for tenants, for buyers, sellers, and everyone involved?
Elisa Cool Murphy
5 min read
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The Termites Are Swarming, The Termites Are Swarming!
Everything you've ever wanted to ask about termites and your home.
Elisa Cool Murphy
4 min read
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How To Move-In, In New Orleans
Moving to New Orleans can be confusing. We do things a bit different. Here's a guide to help make moving into the Big Easy, well, easy.
Elisa Cool Murphy
3 min read
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The Property Tax Torpedo
It must be the start of a new year, tax service emails are already scurrying into inboxes like roaches across a late-night kitchen...
Elisa Cool Murphy
4 min read
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The 12 Tips of Real Estate;You May Not Have Heard Of... Yet.
Attention sellers and buyers. Here's a quick list of things you may not have thought about that will make your real estate experience...
Elisa Cool Murphy
5 min read
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