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Shine it up – Making your home presentable for s...

Making your home presentable for selling is an important step that will dramatically improve your homes desirability when the buyers start showing up.   When comparing similar homes, buyers will pick the home that looks like it was maintained the best. We are trying to outshine the competition.  This can potentially get you more money for your home also. Most likely you have gotten used …

Tips to Motivate Buyers to Buy YOUR home

Whether you are selling For Sale By Owner (FSBO) or with a Realtor, selling a home has gotten significantly harder than it was over the last few years. While it is not technically a buyer’s market, we almost need to treat it like it is. We need a way to motivate the buyers to like your property more than the competition. Here are some …

Real Estate Dec 15, 2022 0 Continue Reading

How much can you afford to buy

When clients start looking for a home, one of the first questions I hear is “how much can I afford”? Or more specifically, “how much will the bank lend me”? Believe it or not, the bank will usually lend you more than you are comfortable with. This is because most loans don’t factor in living expenses like food, utilities, gas for your car, as …

Real Estate Dec 12, 2022 0 Continue Reading

Buying or selling a home with a “Subject to” clause

Not sure if you heard about this. It is a growing trend and starts happening when markets change. Here are the basics: You want to sell your home and a buyer comes in and gives you a down payment of sorts. $5000 or more normally, but there are people trying to do it for nothing down. Then you sell them your home “subject to” …

Real Estate Nov 29, 2022 0 Continue Reading

Benefits of today’s Market (For Buyers)

I know the market feels crazy, and it is always hard to determine when it’s the right time to buy a home. Such a huge investment is hard to be comfortable with. Especially if it’s your first purchase. Take comfort in knowing that this is actually a pretty good time to buy a home. Here are a few reasons why. Less competition : We are …

Real Estate Nov 23, 2022 0 Continue Reading

What’s Really Happening In This Real Estate Market?

The prices are not reducing. What the heck is going on? To be fair, they may still, but all the stats show that the homes are still going up in price. You are being “tricked” into thinking prices are going down by the fact that people are still listing homes high, trying to get a premium. Then they are lowering the prices when it …

Real Estate Nov 16, 2022 0 Continue Reading

Will prices fall enough? All you need to know

Enough to compensate for the higher interest rates? Enough to make you want to buy today? How much do they need to drop to be the right number Here’s the truth of it. House prices may (will likely) go down some, but when they do, the higher interest rates will offset it. Just one percent in a mortgage rate on an average home of …

Real Estate Nov 09, 2022 0 Continue Reading
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Accepting a contingency offer

Should you accept a contingency offer on your sale? What are the risks and rewards for doing this? What is a contingent offer? Contingencies are part of every transaction, and there are several in every offer. In the article, we will focus on the contingency when the buyer of your home has a home they need to sell first. This does NOT include the …

Real Estate Nov 01, 2022 0 Continue Reading

The importance of a backup offer

When selling your home, you are going to want to get as many offers as possible. This is obvious, and you hope for multiple offers. You may be thinking, no duh! But something that is missed a lot is the backup offer. A backup offer is an offer that will take place if the first offer fails. But it is more powerful than you …

Real Estate Oct 21, 2022 0 Continue Reading

Should You (The Seller) Pay the Buyer’s Closing Costs?

Have you been trying to sell your home and potential buyers want YOU to pay their closing costs? How dare they ask for that? Why can’t they pay for their own? After all, you probably did when you bought your home. Here are a couple arguments for and against paying a buyer’s closing costs. Why should you? A lot of today’s buyers don’t have …

Real Estate Oct 11, 2022 0 Continue Reading

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