penalties to buyers and sellers: Top Ten Real Estate Tips for Buyers and Sellers
- 09/19/07 08:22 PM
Hire a local Real Estate Professional. You'll be glad you did in the end. Your local Real Estate professional is your advocate in every regard who's job is to provide you with all possible information and or services that will be of benefit throughout the transaction. A lot of footwork is needed during any Real Estate deal, and you will need and appreciate the resources that can be made available to you via your local Broker.Shop for loan rates and Pre-Qualify for financing before you start to look at houses. If you're not sure where to begin, ask your local Real … (2 comments)
penalties to buyers and sellers: Clowns in a Volkswagon
- 09/19/07 09:18 AM
If you've ever been to the circus you might have seen the act where they see how many clowns can stuff into a Volkswagen. Until recently, that's how our office has felt for the last year or so; too many agents and not enough desk space. With a whopping 384 square feet including a bathroom and storage space, our "main office" was a marvel of efficiency while maintaining a certain cozy feel. Cozy or not however, the idea of "sharing a desk" took on a completely new meaning in as it meant not only that a desk might be "shared" by … (0 comments)
penalties to buyers and sellers: Hey Mr. Realtor...What's that MLS thing?
- 09/19/07 08:45 AM
Not long ago, a young woman walked in to our Real Estate office and wanted information about a house she had seen with our company's "For Sale" sign in the front yard. After talking to us briefly and getting the information she had wanted she said she was in a hurry to go. She explained that in order to get the information that she needed by the end of the day about the two other houses she was interested in, she would have to get moving because they were "with" other companies. Wondering why she was going to all of this … (2 comments)
penalties to buyers and sellers: For Sale by Owner (FSBO) Why not sell it on your own?
- 09/18/07 02:54 PM
At first thought, selling your house by yourself on the open market without the assistance or the cost of an Agency representing you, might seem tempting. After all, how much work could it possibly be to sell a house anyway? You just plunk a sign out in the yard, run a couple newspaper ads, park yourself in the rocker on the front porch for a while and wait for the buyers to start showing up, literally at your doorstep. I’ll admit that perhaps that particular strategy has worked, and may still work on that rarest of rare occasions… at least getting … (0 comments)
penalties to buyers and sellers: Support your Local Starving Realtor
- 09/18/07 01:32 PM
So, you think your local Realtor® is making piles and piles of money? Depending on the market and that broker's actual sphere of influence, he or she just might be doing just that. More than likely however, that agent and/or broker is making far less than you might suspect. The Real Estate business is a tough field in which to operate over the long haul, where the Darwinian notion of "survival of the fittest" is most definitely the name of the game. Unlike what many might believe, Real Estate for the vast majority of professionals is often a world of short … (39 comments)
Hire a local Real Estate Professional. You'll be glad you did in the end. Your local Real Estate professional is your advocate in every regard who's job is to provide you with all possible information and or services that will be of benefit throughout the transaction. A lot of footwork is needed during any Real Estate deal, and you will need and appreciate the resources that can be made available to you via your local Broker.Shop for loan rates and Pre-Qualify for financing before you start to look at houses. If you're not sure where to begin, ask your local Real … (2 comments)
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