selling a house: No Little Boxes in Sylva NC...What Is Your House Worth?Monday Melodies
- 05/22/17 05:06 AM
So...like, lots of agents I've been pretty busy. Buyers needing to see properties, contracts to write (yes!), new listings-paperwork for new listings-photos for new listings, and fielding phone calls. Lots of phone calls from people "thinking" about listing their homes. Digging a little deeper, more than a few won't be listing their homes for quite some time or their neighbor's house just went on the market and they don't really want to list their own house just curious about the market value. I get it. The challenge in small towns in the mountains of Western North Carolina is to find good comparable recent sales of … (4 comments)
selling a house: The Time to Get Your House Ready to Sell is the Day You Buy It!
- 08/31/15 11:06 PM
Say what???? I know, I know, you just bought this house and have no intentions of EVER moving but if you do, it will be a long time coming. Let me repeat myself, the time to get your house ready to sell is the day you buy it. Yes, you've just bought a home to keep your family comfortable but you also just bought a big fat investment. There isn't a buyer in the world who was 100% happy with their home inspection and probably tried to nickle and dime the seller over minor "repairs" which the seller may or may not … (8 comments)
selling a house: Do Selling Bonuses Work for Real Estate Agents?
- 08/24/15 11:03 PM
Sellers often wonder if offering a "Selling Bonus" will work to get agents to sell their houses quicker. Sellers can get antsy about attention level their house is getting by local real estate agents. Locally, we still have a certain price point that there is more inventory than buyers. This is pointed out to sellers when they list their property, but they are still hopeful that there is a way to tempt an agent into putting their property at the head of the list. Usually the seller thinks that an additional financial incentive on top of the professional fee or commission we will earn … (9 comments)
selling a house: Hey Seller! The 70s Called, They Want Their Paneling Back :-)
- 05/11/14 12:39 AM
The family I'm working with wants to live in or near Lake Junaluska just outside of Waynesville, NC. The neighborhood should be like money in the bank for sellers...or so they think. Doesn't it seem reasonable that all the seller should have to do is throw a sign in the yard and slam dunk, call it sold? Well, yeah...sort of...as long as the seller has kept up with updating and routine maintenance since the 70s when most of these homes were built. We only looked at two houses in Lake Junaluska last week but both suffered mightily from dark wood paneling … (51 comments)
selling a house: Sellers Aren't Created Equally & Yes, Some DO Deserve a Higher Yield!
- 11/21/13 09:26 PM
Yeah, that's right. Not all sellers are created equally. Fellow agents, you KNOW I'm telling the truth. There are just some sellers who deserve a higher return that others. Of course, those would be the sellers who treated their homes like organic entities and went beyond simply mowing the yard and keeping the laundry up. Sellers, who from day one of owning their homes, decided to treat their real estate as the most precious of investments, absolutely should have the shortest time on market and the highest yield. That becomes a little more difficult in a buyer's market … (4 comments)
selling a house: For Sale by Owner is Not an Ideal DIY Project
- 06/08/13 10:11 PM
You know? If I wasn't already my own favorite real estate broker, my blogging buddy J. Philip Faranda in Westchester County, NY is somebody (somebuddy, lol) I would use in a heartbeat. This roughly four minute video quickly reviews why selling your home shouldn't be treated as a "do it yourself" project. Leave the DIY things to building go carts (his NY accent made me think he was saying goat carts, which might be appropriate here in NC), hover craft, tree house or garden planting. It is so true that people will spend more time researching where the local … (10 comments)
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Here's my opportunity to introduce conversations and photos of the area I feel so passionate about...the beautiful mountains of Western North Carolina.
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So...like, lots of agents I've been pretty busy. Buyers needing to see properties, contracts to write (yes!), new listings-paperwork for new listings-photos for new listings, and fielding phone calls. Lots of phone calls from people "thinking" about listing their homes. Digging a little deeper, more than a few won't be listing their homes for quite some time or their neighbor's house just went on the market and they don't really want to list their own house just curious about the market value. I get it. The challenge in small towns in the mountains of Western North Carolina is to find good comparable recent sales of … (4 comments)
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