The summer season has been fairly quiet for us and most of the other participants. I mentioned last week that it would be nice if we have a bit of a surge as buyers try to get in before school starts.

Sure enough, all three of our active listings received threats of offers over the weekend, and hopefully something will come of it. I think it means we can add mid-July to our list of times you want to have your house on the market – with the other ideal times being in January and February.

Here’s a look how we did at our new listing in Carlsbad. I was figuring that the remaining projects would roughly price out like this: $50,000 for windows and 3 sliders, $50,000 for new kitchen, $50,000 for 2.5 new bathrooms, and $50,000 for new HVAC and landscaping: