Worksheets and guides I actually use. Every one of them organizes what's knowable rather than predicting what isn't — no estimator will tell you what your house will sell for next spring, and anything that claims to is selling you confidence instead of information.
For sellers
A two-page worksheet you fill in with a pen. Every line between your sale price and the money that reaches your account, in the order a closing statement puts them — statutory costs printed exactly, everything else left blank for your real numbers.
Read it and download →Twenty-six items across five phases, ordered by when they have to happen. Tick them off here or print the sheet for the fridge — plus the three questions worth asking any agent you interview.
Read it and download →For buyers
Eight steps to buying your first home in Michigan, in three phases — what you actually need saved, the state program that lends qualifying first-time buyers $10,000 interest-free, a worksheet for what a house will really cost you each month, and the offer terms worth settling before you're settling them under pressure.
Read it and download →For relocating
A ten-section brochure for anyone deciding from out of state: the city and its numbers, what to do here, a utilities table, stage-by-stage checklists, and the Michigan property-tax rule that catches newcomers.
Read it and download →Downloads ask for a name and email so I know who I'm talking to. The pages themselves are free and always will be — and the email list is opt-in, with the box unchecked by default.