The Deprez Team NP Dodge - Omaha's Move Up Realtors

The Deprez Team NP Dodge - Omaha's Move Up Realtors Nicole & Brian Deprez have been licensed Realtors since 2005 and with NP Dodge Real Estate since 200

Nicole & Brian Deprez have been licensed Realtors since 2005 and with NP Dodge Real Estate since 2007. For the past 11 years Nicole has been the active face of this dynamic duo. Brian has recently joined her full-time and together they are going to continue Moving-Up Omaha’s buyers & sellers. While Nicole has predominantly worked with buyers & sellers of existing homes she and Brian also have quite a bit of new construction experiences as well. The new construction experience they have is from sales of new construction homes as well as managing the day to day operations of a new construction company. If you are considering buying an investment property, this is a great duo for you. Nicole and Brian also have experience in investment properties. They have several of their own investment properties and have worked closely with other buyers at starting their real estate investment businesses. Nicole & Brian are both graduates of the University of Nebraska at Kearney. Nicole is originally from Omaha and Brian is from the Kearney area. They returned to Omaha after college and have lived here for the last 20 years. They have two sons Bryson & Bennett who keep them active driving from baseball fields to basketball courts and to tumbling & trampoline practices. When Nicole isn’t busy she is active in their sons’ school’s PTO (Standing Bear Elementary & Buffett Middle School), her local sorority alumnae group (Alpha Phi) and Relevant Community Church.

09/26/2026

The first cold night of the year goes one of two ways.

Option one: you bump the thermostat, hear the quiet click, and go back to your blanket.

Option two: you bump the thermostat, nothing happens, and you're on hold with an HVAC company at 9pm learning what "emergency service rates" means, while every neighbor who ignored their furnace is on hold ahead of you.

The difference between those two nights is about ten minutes in September. Swap the filter, clear the vents, run a test cycle, and book the tune-up while HVAC schedules are still wide open.

This is one of those homeowner rhythms nobody teaches you at closing. The house doesn't come with a manual, so consider this page one.

Save this for the weekend, and send it to the person you know who won't touch their thermostat until Halloween. If you need an HVAC name you can trust, comment FURNACE and I'll DM you my list of recommendations.

That number you see online is an estimate built by an algorithm. It has never stepped inside your house.It doesn't know ...
09/21/2026

That number you see online is an estimate built by an algorithm. It has never stepped inside your house.

It doesn't know you replaced the roof two years ago. It doesn't know the basement is finished, the kitchen was redone, or that your lot backs to the trees while the "comparable" it used sits on the main road. It's doing math on public records, and public records don't know your house.

Sometimes it lands close. Sometimes it's off by tens of thousands, in either direction. And I've watched that wrong number quietly make decisions for people: homeowners who waited a year to move because they thought they didn't have the equity, when they actually did.

Here's what I offer instead. I walk your home, pull the sales that actually compare to it, and tell you the real number and the reasons behind it. What buyers here are paying premiums for right now, and what your specific home has that the estimate can't see.

It's free, it takes me about a day, and it comes with zero pressure to sell. Plenty of people just want to know where they stand. That's a completely good reason.

DM/Call/Text 402.213.9090 and I'll put your real number together this week.

Something happened to American houses over the last fifty years. The front porch shrank into a concrete stoop, the back ...
09/20/2026

Something happened to American houses over the last fifty years. The front porch shrank into a concrete stoop, the back deck grew into an outdoor kingdom, and we all quietly moved our lives behind the house.

It made sense on paper. Privacy. Fenced yards. Grilling.
But something got lost in the trade, because the front porch was never really about the house. It was about the street. It's where you learned your neighbors' names without planning to. It's waving at the dog walkers until you know the dogs' names too. It's the reason kids on bikes slow down and say hi.

And buyers have noticed. I hear it in showings now, and it's not "nice porch." It's quieter than that. Someone stands out front a beat longer than they need to and says "you could actually sit out here." That sentence used to be rare. Now I hear it monthly.

Some of it is post-2020 wiring, we all got reminded what it costs to feel disconnected from the people fifty feet away. Some of it is front-porch neighborhoods aging into the most beloved streets in town. Either way, the porch is officially back on the wish list.

If you have one, it might be your home's most underrated feature. Two chairs and a decent light fixture and it shows like a lifestyle, not a walkway.

Somewhere along the way, buyers picked up the idea that the next house has to be The One. The forever home. The place th...
09/19/2026

Somewhere along the way, buyers picked up the idea that the next house has to be The One. The forever home. The place they'll be carried out of.

No pressure or anything.

Here's what's actually happening: people are planning shorter chapters. The starter home, the school-years home, the empty-nest home, and each one gets to be right for its season instead of perfect for every season that might ever come.

And honestly, that mindset shift is a gift. It changes the whole conversation:

You stop waiting for a unicorn. The house that's 85% right for the next five years beats renting for three more while you hunt for 100%.

You stop overbuying. You don't need the bonus room for grandkids who don't exist yet. You need the right home for the life you're living right now.

You start asking better questions. Instead of "could I live here forever," it becomes "does this work for this chapter, and will someone want it when the chapter ends?" That second question is where I earn my keep, because buying with the exit in mind is how you build wealth in five-year moves.

Forever is a lot to ask of a house. The next five years is a question you can actually answer.

If you've been stuck because nothing feels like The One, comment CHAPTER or DM me and let's talk about what the next five years actually needs. It's a much shorter list than you think. DM/Call/Text 402.213.9090

09/18/2026

A quiet afternoon showing can hide a lot about what daily life at an address actually feels like. The five-minute drive that brought you to the showing may become a 35-minute commute during rush hour. The empty street may fill with parked cars every evening. School pickup may block the intersection, nearby lights may shine directly into the bedroom, and traffic or train noise may appear at hours you were never there to hear it.

None of those things automatically make a neighborhood wrong. They simply help you decide whether the location works for the way you actually live.

Before making an offer, drive the route you would take to work. Visit during the evening. Stop by on a weekend. Pay attention to traffic, parking, noise, lighting, and anything else that will affect your normal routine.

Found a house you are seriously considering? DM me DRIVE with the listing. I’ll help you create a second-visit checklist so you can evaluate more than the kitchen and floor plan before you commit.
DM/Call/Text 402.213.9090

Date Night aka NP Dodge Volunteer Event for Sleep in Heavenly Peace Omaha! Lots of sanding and now vibrating hands! Luck...
09/18/2026

Date Night aka NP Dodge Volunteer Event for Sleep in Heavenly Peace Omaha! Lots of sanding and now vibrating hands! Lucked out on weather tonight!

After tomorrow the NP Dodge Volunteer crew will have made 200 beds so NO child sleeps without a bed in Omaha, NE!

Nobody needs another list of every event happening this month. You need a plan you can screenshot.So here are four. A fa...
09/17/2026

Nobody needs another list of every event happening this month. You need a plan you can screenshot.

So here are four. A family Saturday, a date day, a girls' day out, and an adventure that stays under $50. Every stop is somewhere I actually send people, and none of them requires more than 20 minutes in the car.

September moves fast here. The patios close, the orchard picks through, and suddenly it's holiday season and you never did the thing.

Save this post, pick your weekend, and tag the person who's coming with you. And if I missed a spot that deserved a slide, put it in the comments. I'm always building my list.

You know the guy. You called him in June, left two voicemails, and he texted back "booked til fall" if he answered at al...
09/16/2026

You know the guy. You called him in June, left two voicemails, and he texted back "booked til fall" if he answered at all.

Call him this week. Different person.

Here's what nobody tells you about how contractor season actually works. Their calendar has two cliffs: the summer rush ends around Labor Day, and the holiday shutdown starts around Thanksgiving. In between sits a 10 week window where the good ones, the ones with actual waitlists in May, suddenly have gaps to fill. A gap in the schedule is money walking out the door, and they know it.

That's the window you're standing in right now.

The exterior paint job that was a spring waitlist? Bookable. The deck repair? Bookable, and the boards will cure right in this weather. The furnace tune-up that turns into a $400 emergency call the first cold night of November? Fifteen minutes in September.
Same house. Same projects. Same contractors. The only thing that changed is who else is calling them.

I keep a list of the contractors who show up and do it right, because my sellers need them constantly. Drop a comment with the project on your list and I'll DM you a name. Or, you can call/text anytime 402.213.9090

You walk into a hotel room and instantly relax. You walk into your own house and see seventeen things that need doing.Sa...
09/15/2026

You walk into a hotel room and instantly relax. You walk into your own house and see seventeen things that need doing.

Same walls. Same furniture concept. Completely different feeling. The difference isn't money, it's five decisions hotels make on purpose that most of us never make at home. And every single one of them is stealable.

Swipe through, then pick one room this weekend and give it the hotel treatment. You'll be shocked what clear surfaces alone can do.

Here's the part nobody tells you. This is exactly what staging is. When I prep a home for market, this list is the playbook: clear the surfaces, layer the lighting, dress the bed. Buyers walk in and exhale, and that feeling is worth real money.

You just don't have to wait until you're selling to live in a home that feels like that.

Which room in your house is closest to hotel-level already? Be honest.

You've driven down a street and felt it. Nothing about the houses is dramatically different from the next block over, bu...
09/14/2026

You've driven down a street and felt it. Nothing about the houses is dramatically different from the next block over, but something about it just reads money.

Here's what your brain is actually picking up on:

Mature trees. A street with a full canopy can feel like a different price point than the identical street without one.

Consistent maintenance. Not fancy, consistent. Edged lawns, clean driveways, no chipped paint. One neglected house pulls the whole block down, and one immaculate street lifts every home on it.

Sidewalks and setbacks. Streets where homes sit back with room to breathe feel established. Streets where you can see people walking feel alive.

No visible clutter. Trash cans put away, cars in driveways instead of on lawns. Small things, massive signal.

The wild part is that almost none of this shows up on a listing sheet, but every buyer feels it in the first ten seconds. It's part of why two identical floor plans three blocks apart can sell for very different numbers.

If you've ever wondered why your street feels the way it does, now you know what you're feeling.

Ready to list your current home & find your dream home? I'm here for you! DM/Call/Text: 402.213.9090

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