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If you’re looking for a great buyer’s agent, be prepared to do a lot of interviewing. Unless you’re lucky enough to have met someone with whom you ‘click’ right off the bat, finding a good fit for your home search is going to take some deliberate evaluation.
Posted: 2009-10-27
Category: Real Estate
Many buyers are taking advantage of the huge dips in prices for homes, hoping to see gains in equity. Foreclosure homes are especially popular, as buyers are getting homes at a fraction of the price, even in traditionally expensive markets like San Diego and Orlando.
Posted: 2009-09-01
Category: Real Estate
A garage/yard/lawn sale is a terrific way to both get clutter out of the house and put some money in your buyers’ pockets. It’s also a good way to develop a rapport with your clients. Here are some tips for you to organize a garage sale with your clients and then get all the dead weight out of the house!
Posted: 2009-08-26
Category: Real Estate
Property names as we know them – “Moor House”, “Toad Hall”, “Gormenghast”… are particularly British in origin and in practice. While nowhere near as popular as in the U.K., this has trickled to North America to some degree, albeit in a more casual manner.
Posted: 2009-08-19
Category: Real Estate
How do you make your listings interesting? Start writing short blog posts to go along with them. Make them of note to people interested in real estate, the community the home is in, or the history of home styles or home construction.
Posted: 2009-08-11
Category: Blogging
As you pack away your family possessions, think about where you are going to put them in your new home and how you are going to decorate your new living space. Encourage children to plan out their new bedrooms.
Posted: 2009-07-20
Category: Real Estate
What you’re not willing to do is stand by while she makes comments about your weight, demands that you do ineffective marketing, complains about having to schedule walkthroughs and repeatedly tells you that she thinks that real estate agents are all crooks.
Posted: 2009-06-30
Category: Real Estate
A report, Buying For Themselves: An Analysis of Unmarried Female Home Buyers by Rachel Bogardus Drew for the Joint Center for Housing Studies at Harvard University illustrates some of the different requirements from single as opposed to partnered women. Instead of looking for more space or a change of locale, most single women simply want to own their own home.
Posted: 2009-06-19
Category: Real Estate
As a real estate agent, you are probably going to come across someone, somewhere who says, "Well you barely did any work at all! Why should I pay you this much?" You may feel that you are charging too much in light of this, especially if you are new to the game. However, there is a very good reason why you get paid what you do and why you should continue charging that amount.
Posted: 2009-06-19
Category: Real Estate
The “gage” in mortgage comes from a term referring to a forfeit if a debt is not paid. As a homeowner today can be levied fines, lose a good credit rating or have to declare bankruptcy if unable to meet mortgage payments, this is still an appropriate reference today! “Mortgage”, then, means “dead pledge”. If the mortgage loan is defaulted on, the property is “dead” to the borrower. If the loan is paid in full, the pledge to repay it was “dead”.
Posted: 2009-06-18
Category: Mortgages
Examine the property lines of the property and check to see if there is anything on your neighbor’s or your property that could start of a dispute (or be the object of a present one). Something that “isn’t a problem” as far as your agent, the listing agent or the owner of the property you are looking at could be a problem with the owner of the property who is intruding or being intruded upon.
Posted: 2009-06-16
Category: Real Estate
They have an option where part of their paycheck automatically gets deducted and deposited in your bank account. If they cause problems for you or your property, you can contact their chain of command and their Sergeant or Commander will make them wish they never had that keg party.
Posted: 2009-06-02
Category: Real Estate
If you’re a real estate investor, it pays to keep your eyes on what’s happening in your local area. Changes can affect the value of local real estate for better or for worse. The wise investor watches for changes in businesses and amenities that can affect the future equity of real estate in the area.
Posted: 2009-04-03
Category: Real Estate
The rates oft-quoted in a GFE are what they are at the moment - not what they are upon the signing of the loan papers. The GFE can be manipulated with little difficulty. "Oops, there was an extra fee there! Oh, did we forget to tell you about costs that we don't have to disclose on the GFE?" Ethical lenders will do everything they can to clearly explain the fee structure and interest rates, but as today's struggling market attests, not all lenders are ethical.
Posted: 2009-03-27
Category: Mortgages
When you get a new rate quote from the bank, pay close attention to the points you need to pay. For example you may get a quote for $5.124% with no points, and 4.874% with 1 point. The value of a point equals 1% of the loan amount. Even thought the second quote is for a lower rate, it may not be worth it in the long run when you include the extra cost of the point charge.
Posted: 2009-01-12
Category: Mortgages
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