Managing Home Inspection Expectations - 07/27/10 09:19 PM
Troy Pappas a local home inspector to Hampton Roads writes a great article about expectations on a home inspection.  All homes should be inspected before purchase.
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Via Troy Pappas - Virginia Beach Home Inspector (Safe House Property Inspections):
Managing Expectations for a Home Inspection in Virginia BeachOne part of my job as a Virginia Beach home inspector is to manage client expectations. By that I mean it is important that a home buyer know exactly what they … (2 comments)

Zip Realty careers: How to become a succesful Realtor and increase your realtors salary. Part 2 - 07/22/10 09:58 AM
ZipRealty careers:  How to become a succesful Realtor and increase your realtors salary.  Part 2   has to talk next about the technology.  The ZipRealty website is the 5th most visited website as of January, 2010.  Notice ZipRealty is the only Realtor brokerage in the list.  What this does for Zip agents is create the amount of leads that we get.  Every company has seen a decrease in traffic since the Tax Credit expired, but we are still receiving at least 40 - 60 leads per month individually and the top producers get much more. In my local area Virginia ZipRealty has only been … (2 comments)

Why home stage your home before you sell in Norfolk - Virginia? - 07/19/10 03:49 PM
Why home stage your home before you sell in Norfolk - Virginia?It will bring out the best in your house.  It will feature rooms that compel the eye, evoke emotion.  It will revitalize the house, show its best features.  Home buyers will gravitate to the newly organized and freshly rejuvenated rooms.  Your house will sell 50% faster, much easier, and for 6-10% more in profit.    
A fresh look in your home by a stager, with a little or sometimes no investment for accessories and furniture on your part, can impart a new image.   This past weekend, I had to hire … (1 comments)

ZipRealty careers: How to become a successful Realtor and increase your realtors salary. - 07/08/10 12:05 PM
ZipRealty careers:  How to become a succesful Realtor and increase your realtors salary.  Zip Realty careers:  How to become a successful Realtor and increase your realtors salary were my questions when I first heard of the new company that I now work for.  (If you decide to interview to join the company, please mention my name, I get credit $$ for this) After the market crashed and there were no longer loans for first time home buyers with poor credit, ( my niche ) I was put out of business.  I had work hard for two years to create a steady … (6 comments)

Happy 2nd of July!! - 07/05/10 12:02 PM
Althoug not related to real estate, this blog is a very good read.  This is one of those "I didn't know"
Via Alan May, Coldwell Banker Evanston Realtor, Evanston Real Estate (Evanston Condos, Evanston Homes, North Shore Homes):
It's just so easy to say Happy FOURTH of July, but it's largely unknown that the legal separation of the original 13 colonies in the Americas from Great Britain, was on July the SECOND, 1776.
A resolution of independence by Richard Henry Lee of Virginia was voted and approved by the Second Continental Congress on July 2, 1776. 
After voting for independence, the Congress started … (1 comments)