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tips: Tips for Selling a High-End Home - 01/20/08 11:45 PM
Even Oprah Winfrey might have a hard time selling a mansion in this real estate market. Homes in great neighborhoods possessing exceptional architecture and well-landscaped gardens are suffering. During the housing boom, these properties practically sold themselves. Now, it’s not as easy as putting sign in your font yard.
Here are some tips for selling a high-end home in a soft real estate market:
1. Proper Pricing – No matter the size of your home, pricing will determine how long your home sits on the market. Don’t be afraid to drop the listing price to gain more interest. The chances are … (0 comments)
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tips: Selling Your Home in 2008 - 01/20/08 11:40 PM
All of a sudden, a light bulb goes off in your head and you want to sell your home. Well, if you plan on selling your home in 2008, then you need a game plan on how to make yours shine above the rest. Remember it’s more important to keep your home clean, and looking spacious, rather than upgrading everything in sight. If your home is in need of remodeling and you don’t want to do it, it isn’t a bad idea to credit the buyer so they can do the work themselves. If you want to save a few extra … (0 comments)
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tips: Is Your Home Worth Remodeling? - 12/23/07 11:42 PM
Are you still living in the same home that you purchased 15 years ago? If so, have you visited any homes that have been built in the past five years? I know you would enjoy a private retreat instead of a place where you can only lay your head. This would be a place to go relax, read, or soak in a hot bubble bath away from all the chaos. I’m talking about a master suite. Builders know that an immaculate master suite is on the top of buyers’ lists.
So maybe you have seen what all the hype is … (4 comments)
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tips: Are You Preventing Your Home from Selling? - 12/17/07 02:08 PM
Your home has been on the market for 3 months now and you're not getting any traffic coming through. You must be thinking, "Oh the market is slow right now, just give it some time." Then another 3 months pass by and you mutter the same thing to your wife. Well Sir, a half year is a long time in any kind of market. Did you ever think that you are preventing your home from selling?
First things first, you must hire a good agent to sell your home. 'For Sale By Owner' (FSBO) is less prevalent now-a-days and 85% of … (0 comments)
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tips: Tips for a Painless Closing - 12/16/07 07:09 PM
The search is over, the negotiations have ended, the home inspection was a success, and the mortgage has been set. Finally, you come to the last step in the home buying process– Closing, or some call it Settlement. This is where the house transfers ownership and the title is in your name, home owner’s insurance is verified, you agree to the terms of the mortgage, and the keys are put in your hands. Once you leave the closing table, you can go to your new home as a homeowner! The build up of all the anticipation for the past few weeks … (0 comments)
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tips: When Making an Offer - 12/14/07 06:27 PM
In this market , it’s your game now Mr. Buyer. The offer that you decide to make only needs to make sense to you. Don’t worry about the thought of being rejected. The reason why, it doesn’t cost you a thing! However, an offer that doesn’t make sense to you could end up costing you a great deal of time and energy.
Problem properties usually can be purchased at great prices, terms or even both at times. When a property goes into foreclosure or has been sitting on the market for months, any offer may look reasonable to a seller. Especially … (2 comments)
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tips: Thinking About Trying 'For Sale By Owner' (FSBO)? - 12/13/07 10:21 AM
Each year, many do-it-yourself-ers eager to save money take the plunge by trying the ‘ole “For Sale By Owner” route to sell their home. These brave soldiers venture out into the marketplace, to face head-on, the duties of marketing, pricing, showing, negotiating, scheduling, screening, and paperwork. Though I do give them credit for their motivated efforts, many FSBO’s must learn by trial and error, the value of a real estate professional.
FSBO sales in 1987 (20%) … in 2006 (12%)
40% of all FSBO’s sold their home to someone they knew prior to the sale. Therefore only 7% of all home … (3 comments)
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tips: Pricing Your Home....Right! - 11/12/07 02:30 PM
So everyone remembers selling lemonade on the corner of your street when you were younger right? Of course, if Charlie Brown was doing it then it had to be cool. You had to compete with the other kids that were two streets over, and you weren’t friends with them because your parents wouldn’t let you ride your huffy off your street. Well whose stand did better? Maybe it was yours because you had your cute little sister holding the sign, maybe it was theirs because “Dad” got so caught up, he built a mini 7 Eleven, or maybe it was neither… It … (0 comments)
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tips: Curb Appeal - 11/12/07 02:29 PM
As I was looking for homes the other day I came across a picture in the MLS that blew me away. It was the main picture of the home. I had not seen anything like this before and was flabbergasted by it. I mean, the Realtor that is selling this house must have no idea what gossip must be going on about this peculiar photo. If the owner of the house has not seen this photo yet, they are going to be thrilled.
This is the perfect example of what NOT to do. This is not your ideal featured picture … (0 comments)
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tips: Preserving Your Home, Keep it New! - 11/12/07 01:57 PM
You smile every time you walk into your master bedroom as if you were a little kid in a candy store. Your kitchen makes kitchen stadium look childish. And your beautiful new exterior paint has made all the neighbors jealous. Your home looks so good that you are bombarded by real estate agents, letting you know how much they could sell your home for.
Put it on the market! Hell no! Not after all the man hours you put in remodeling. Then again, when the kids are off to college and you have an empty nest, Billy isn’t there to mow … (0 comments)
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