There are so many questions that buyers and sellers ask me about the appraisal process and valuing homes that I decided to ask an appraiser directly. Here she answers my frequently heard questions and one that she hears all the time as well.

The first time I heard the word “xeriscaping” as a landscaping philosophy, I thought it was “zeroscaping,” which is my own personal technique. Wow, had my yard gone mainstream? Not so much.