As with any momentous decision, settling on when to sell your Charlotte house can take time—and even then, acting on the decision can be slowed by extraneous factors. Who doesn’t have local obligations to deal with and Charlotte friends and neighbors who’ll need to be reassured that your relationship isn’t going to be irredeemably severed? Acting on a decision to sell your Charlotte house can seem to be the real estate equivalent of moving an ocean liner with a single tugboat: very slow going. Even so, there are persuasive reasons why you might want to move the process along more quickly than (0 comments)
When it comes to figuring out how to begin up the path to homeownership, Charlotte renters are left pretty much to their own devices. For the majority of first-time buyers who will use home loan financing to get there, getting started is simple enough: you begin by knowing two basic numbers. The first is the amount of money you will be comfortable spending for housing each month. This is a figure that will cover your mortgage payment, upkeep, insurance, and property taxes—everything your Charlotte house will cost on a month-to-month basis. But you don’t have to worry about calculating those elements in (0 comments)
Selling your Charlotte house for the best price sometimes involves a certain amount of luck, but it’s the kind of “luck” that’s a lot more likely when you’ve set out the welcome mat for it. In addition to strategic home preparation and a solid marketing push, selling your Charlotte house for the best price also has to do with where that price starts out: that is, the asking price. Once you have a clear idea of the professional opinion of its market value—that is, a price that aligns with the latest comparable sales data for similar Charlotte homes—you have three alternative (0 comments)
If you’ve learned to skip past onscreen click-me’s with hyperlinks reading, “Top 10 Secrets” or “Best Kept Secrets of the Pros,” you can usually rest assured that you’ve saved yourself some time. No matter whether the long-hidden secrets deal with diet tips, shopping discounts, or travel destinations, nine times out of ten the real secret turns out to be the agenda of whoever is promising the “secrets.” When it comes to selling a house—here in Charlotte or elsewhere—let’s face it: there aren’t a lot of secrets left out there. Since selling a house is the professional focus of more than a (0 comments)
If a National Association of Realtors® expert is to be taken literally, there is one unlikely factor that could lessen the stress level associated with selling your Charlotte house. Just have some kids around. That may not sound logical—but weirdly enough, it really could make sense. The expert whose thoughts spawn this deduction is the home improvement specialist writing for the NAR’s magazine. Last week, Stephanie Booth observed that sometimes “raising kids actually makes your house cleaner” (Ms. Booth’s italics). I have to agree. If you have small kids, you’re already thoroughly familiar with the accompanying housekeeping side effects. Ms. Booth recalls her (0 comments)
When you have a firm timeline that governs when you’ll be selling your Charlotte house, it’s one decision that’s made for you. Of course, it’s not always that easy. If a move from one home to another, or from Charlotte to another area isn’t dictated by outside events, you have to make the decision anew every week or month. On the one hand, the adventure and energizing prospect of a new home tugs in the direction of getting the project going…while on the other hand, the mountain of details and effort pulls in the direction of putting it off a bit longer. (1 comments)