home selling tips: How To Deal With Offers On Your Mobile Eastern Shore Home - 11/09/11 04:50 AM
Once your home is listed on the open market and aggressively advertised, an offer can come in at any time. Although that is what you want – to sell your home – it may feel like everything is moving very quickly, especially if you get an offer a day or two after your Mobile Eastern Shore home goes up for sale! It’s important to be prepared to make a decision quickly when the offer meets your criteria, but often sellers have a tendency to wait and see if they receive more or better offers. You will ultimately have to decide what … (0 comments)

home selling tips: Home Warranty Can Help Sell Your Mobile Eastern Shore Home - 10/25/11 06:10 AM
In recent years of ever-increasing fees by service repair companies and continued belt-tightening by home buyers, the provision of home warranty protection plans by sellers has become a rather common–and even expected–incentive. The knowledge that they won’t be hit by unexpected repair bills in the first year after purchasing their Mobile Eastern Shore home is reassuring to buyers, especially first-timers who have no experience in home maintenance.
A home warranty plan is essentially a service contract that covers a major housing system, for example, plumbing or electrical wiring — for a set period of time from the date a house is sold. … (0 comments)

home selling tips: Tips For Cleaning Up The Clutter In Your Mobile Eastern Shore Real Estate - 10/11/11 04:38 PM
Why? How? What? Where?
Let’s start with the why? The most common incentive to clear away clutter occurs when you’re selling your Mobile Eastern Shore real estate and want to stage it for prospective buyers. Real estate agents will tell you that clutter-filled, disorganized homes appear smaller, and every website offering tips for a fast sale includes–and stresses- the need to show a clutter-free home. Another strong reason for eliminating clutter is to lower the stress in your life by having everything in its place ((how nice it would be not to spend valuable time and energy looking through clutter for … (0 comments)

home selling tips: Buying and Selling Mobile Eastern Shore Real Estate in Today’s Market - 07/29/11 02:21 AM
As the real estate market and economic conditions change, so do strategies for buying and selling homes. Listed below are a few recommendations to help both buyers and sellers of Mobile Eastern Shore real estate be successful.

SELLERS:
1. Choose a successful, aggressive real estate agent.
You will want someone who is familiar with your neighborhood and will be proactive in selling your Mobile Eastern Shore real estate. Ask in advance about his/her plan for marketing your property and make sure it includes, at the very least, an MLS listing, on-line and newspaper advertising, and regularly scheduled open houses.
2. Remember the … (0 comments)

home selling tips: Ins and Outs of Mobile Eastern Shore Real Estate Appraisals – Part II - 05/03/11 02:52 PM
Once the appraiser has applied the three approaches to the appraisal of your Mobile Eastern Shore real estate, he/she must decide which of them is the most reliable and most closely follows the actions of the market. For residential properties, the Sales Comparison Analysis is typically the most reliable. For commercial or industrial properties, all three techniques (or portions of one or more) may be reliable. The appraiser reconciles the various aspects of each technique into what he or she believes produces a credible and supportable opinion of value. The result is the Final Value Estimate, which, depending on the needs … (0 comments)

home selling tips: Tips For Selling Your Mobile Eastern Shore Home In a Down Market - 03/14/11 07:21 AM
Yes, there are still qualified buyers out there, but the supply of Mobile Eastern Shore homes for sale  is far greater than the demand for them, and today's buyers can afford to be very selective. Your house may have excellent curb appeal and be beautifully staged, but if you really want to sell in this market, you must be realistic, flexible, and creative when it comes to pricing, availability, flexibility, and motivating the buyer to purchase your property.
PRICING: A few years ago, you probably could have sold your home for what you think it is worth today-or even more-but that … (0 comments)

home selling tips: The Mobile Eastern Shore Real Estate Podcast - February 2011 - 02/15/11 01:35 AM
Judy Niemeyer of Ashurst and Niemeyer presents:
The Mobile Eastern Shore Real Estate Podcast
This month's edition covers Mobile Eastern Shore real estate market activity and then we walk through five top tips to selling your home.
Features special guest Terri Murphy of US Learning.
Program length: approximately 7 minutes
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home selling tips: Getting Ready For Last Minute Showings Of Your Mobile Eastern Shore Home - 12/03/10 09:46 AM
For Sunday's open house, your Mobile Eastern Shore home was in "show-ready" condition. With curb appeal at its finest, clutter nowhere to be seen, windows and appliances sparkling, and the aroma of freshly baked cookies wafting in the air, you were certain that potential buyers couldn't help but be positively impressed.
However, now it's midweek, and the house has fallen back into its "lived in" state. Clutter abounds, dishes are in the sink, laundry has piled up, and toys have proliferated overnight. What a time for your Realtor to call to tell you that she wants to show your Mobile Eastern … (0 comments)

home selling tips: Design Trends For Mobile Eastern Shore Real Estate - 11/05/10 05:27 AM
Every few years home buyers' demand change. The 2010 design trends reflect the current move toward family togetherness, casual living, and energy efficiency. Potential purchasers of Mobile Eastern Shore real estate are looking for smaller, cost-effective homes which provide both functional and flexible spaces to match their current lifestyle. First-time buyers cannot afford McMansions, empty nesters are looking to downsize, and families are into low maintenance, energy savings, and open spaces,
The age of formality and overindulgent features has gone by. Buyers of Mobile Eastern Shore real estate are giving up formal dining and living rooms and passing on libraries, parlors, … (0 comments)

home selling tips: Sprucing Up Your Mobile Eastern Shore Home For Fall – Interior Painting Tips - 09/24/10 04:43 AM
Whether your desire for a new look inside your Mobile Eastern Shore home is because of the arrival of fall or because you hope to hasten the sale of your house, you may be considering repainting in the near future.
While painting can be a long, and sometimes unrewarding, task, professional painters and expert "do-it-yourself-ers" alike agree on ways to make the process less frustrating and more likely to produce a finished product you'll be proud of. Basically, these tips center around organization, preparation, and patience.
1. GET ORGANIZED
Purchase all necessary supplies in advance. Include paint, brushes, rollers, and drop … (1 comments)

home selling tips: Selling Your Mobile Eastern Shore Home With Feng Shui - 06/11/10 06:51 AM
In addition to the demands of current Mobile Eastern Shore home buyers for environmentally-friendly, or green real estate, there is also a growing segment of consumers who are looking for houses which incorporate the principles of feng shui. An ancient Chinese practice, feng shui is believed to improve one's life through the use of color, location and positioning, and specific materials and objects, all of which combine to produce a positive energy, or chi, in your home.
The primary focus of feng shui is the positive flow of energy, which contributes to the creation of harmony in life. Integral components of … (1 comments)

home selling tips: Go Green For a Faster Mobile Eastern Shore Home Sale - 05/28/10 12:52 PM
Many of today's buyers in the market for a Mobile Eastern Shore home are looking for one that is eco-friendly. They want a house that is energy-efficient and combats detriments to the environment. Listed below are some relative easy to do and cost-efficient ways you can appeal to potential eco-conscious buyers.
1. Insulate. Insulate. Insulate. Use pipe insulators to keep hot water hot for a longer time and a hot water heater blanket ($10.00 to $20.00) to both prevent temperature loss and reduce the amount of electricity/gas needed to maintain the water temperature. Be aware that the further heat or air … (0 comments)

home selling tips: Five Mistakes to Avoid When Selling Your Mobile Eastern Shore Home - 11/23/09 07:58 AM
Selling your Mobile Eastern Shore home should be a smooth profitable transaction. But it could end up being an unsuccessful, draining experience, especially if the appropriate precautions and preparations are not observed. A majority of the time, the chance for success lies within the hands of the hired real estate expert. In order to guarantee optimal results, the sellers must be willing to cooperate and consider the professional advice of their real estate agent. Agonizing over a listing price, making the property presentable, rushing for last minute showings, answering inconvenient calls, and frazzling thoughts of not being able to sell are all … (0 comments)