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Are You a Buyer Who Sees Right Now, or What Might Be?
Are you a buyer who sees the Right Now, or What Might Be?  Is your crystal ball working? Rare is the buyer who finds the resale home that is a perfect move-in ready match just the way it is!  Just like buyers, home sellers have diverse tastes and likes.  You like blue, they like green.  Some sellers will try to neutralize to minimize the distractions, others will take the attitude that "I love my home JUST the way it is!".  If THEIR WAY includes deep burgundy paint in one room, 1970's vintage wallpaper in the kitchen and solid black walls in their teenager's Goth decorated room, are you the type of buyer who can overlook these cosmetic features?  Can you see the floor plan and decide if the home has good "bones" that will serve your family for years to come?  Can you picture the home after a few weekends of elbow grease and a few gallons of paint, no evidence that the previous sellers ever lived there? We're not saying overlook the essentials!  If you need a basement, or an attached garage and there isn't one...well neither is easily addressed if the home doesn't have those features.  But can you ... more

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