selling your home: Selling Your Home And The Buyer Cancels - 07/11/17 07:03 AM
They're Not Buying Our Home? Why? Telling a seller that the buyers changed their mind is something Realtors hate.  Luckily, it doesn't happen often.  When it does it's usually within the first couple of weeks of the contract but not always.  
It's important for sellers to understand that cancellations can and do happen.  It's easy for buyers to have a change of heart.  They may find another home they like better.   Maybe they wake up with a bad case of buyer's remorse after signing the contract.  Or maybe they decide they can't afford it.
In recent years, buyers were … (1 comments)

selling your home: What You Need to Know About Home Appraisals - 12/05/16 07:13 AM
When you think about buying a house, you think about the plentiful cabinet space you hope to find in the kitchen, or ample bedroom size. You probably aren't thinking about the home appraisal.
If you're selling a home, you're probably daydreaming about the home you plan on moving into next. You're probably wondering how much you can sell your home for, too.
But whether you're selling or buying, you probably aren't thinking much about the home appraisal process. It isn't one of the most glamorous parts of buying or selling a home, and yet if home appraisals disappeared tomorrow, the real estate market would come … (3 comments)

selling your home: Home Inventory Is Tight, But You Still Want To Sell Your House - 12/01/16 12:16 PM
A good friend of mine listed and sold their home this past year and became renters. The reason? They couldn’t find anything to buy, home inventory is too tight. 
With two teenage boys and thriving careers, they had hoped to transition into a home much bigger and better than the one they had just sold. School districts and proximity to their job limited their search even more. Their home sold quickly, but due to lack of home inventory there was nothing to buy.
According to HouseHunt’s 2nd Quarter Market Condition Report in 2016,  there is only a slight increase in home prices and … (0 comments)