Cleveland Ohio Real Estate Blog
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2009
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Should a seller move before or after title transfer? What happens if the transaction falls apart the day of or the day before title transfer? What happens if the seller has already moved all of their possessions out before title transfer and the transaction falls apart? These are serious quest...
05/17/2009
Buyers can (and often do) get so caught up looking at the interior of a home that they can sometimes miss the forest for the trees in that there are some very important outside considerations to view, evaluate and even sometimes investigate. Here are just a few examples: Different Zoning Classif...
05/17/2009
Okay, here is my bias. I am not a big fan of huge corporate chains, that add unnecessary cost and complexity to the consumer, and take local dollars out of the community when they could easily stay local, thereby strengthening local communities, reducing our collective carbon footprint, and conn...
05/17/2009
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Sellers need to make sure to pay attention to the outside of their home as much as the inside. Now that spring is upon us, grass is growing, trees are budding and flowers are growing....so are weeds. Remember, the first impression is sometimes the only chance you get and the outside of the house ...
05/17/2009
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and take your chances. Anymore in this economy, the certainty in pricing a home is anyone'sguess. Back in the day, comps were thought of as good measures of a home's value, of course with quantatative adjustments as necessary. Now, with home values showing a lot of volatility in many markets (...
05/17/2009
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One of the easiest things sellers can do to improve their home is to paint those spaces inside and outside that either need it or NEED it. What do I mean? I mean that there are those homes built 20-25 years ago that have walls with original paint or have wallpaper that has the era written all o...
05/17/2009
I was out showing a buyer several different new home communities this past weekend and one of the communities we visited was Cutters Creek in South Euclid. The floor plans are amazing. The attention to detail is impressive and the location is exceptional. The community is over half sold (23 of ...
05/10/2009
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I wish I had a nickel (okay, 10 bucks) for every time I have encountered a seller at home when I am out with buyers showing homes. A few years back, I almost received a free vasectomy from a rather upset German Shepard as I proceeded to open the garage door from inside the home. The seller was ...
05/10/2009
The perceived value of your home 3 or 6 months ago may not be relevant today. Listing agents recommend an initial asking price, or even a range, usually based on recent sold comparables and homes that are currently for sale which are similar. Once this topic is discussed and the initial asking p...
05/10/2009
Many sellers do not realize they have the option to specify which financing options a buyer may choose when they sell their home. The wider the net is cast, the greater the number of buyers will be available. There used to be a bias against FHA financing due to slightly higher costs that were i...
05/10/2009
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