240 Wilson Av. #209, Bayfield WI 54814: Reiten Boatyard Condo For Sale One of the most appealing features of buying a Reiten Boatyard condo unit in Bayfield is the sheer convenience of owning one of these units. There's professional management of rentals through the Winfield Inn, making it j
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01/16/2014
Sellers, Here's What's Going on While You're Playing the FSBO Game While you're out there trying to sell your property "by owner", here's what's happening: Your property isn't really on the market. By that, I mean your property likely isn't on MLS and isn't being syndicated via broker reci
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01/16/2014
Customer Calls to Request That We Show a Property to her "Buyer" A longtime past client called us recently, proclaiming that she'd "found a buyer" for her vacant lot and asking if we'd show the property to this fellow "for a fee" (a very low fee, of course). The whole situation turned out t
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01/16/2014
Mistakes Sellers Make: Buyers Need Access to Your Home in Order to Buy This is one of the most frequent and common mistakes made by sellers that I've encountered in my years as a real estate broker. If buyers can't get in to see your home, there's no chance they will be buying it. This sound
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01/15/2014
Five Things Real Estate Agents Will Say in Order to Get Your Listing "We're the hometown team". You hear this one a lot in small towns and rural areas, where local firms are afraid of competition from newcomers. So the "hometown team" ploy turns the local market into a contest to see who is
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01/12/2014
Do You Want to Sell or Do You Need to Sell? And Why Does it Matter? We get phone calls on occasion from property owners who confide that they "need to sell" their home. Some of these calls are triggered by the owner receiving their property tax statement in the mail. Others may be the resu
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01/12/2014
More Ethics Issues - Misleading the Owner About Market Value The National Association of Realtors Code of Ethics, Article One, is clear in discussing the conduct of an agent who misleads a property owner about the value of their home in order to get the listing. Standard of Practice 1-3 stat
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01/12/2014
Why do Some Agents Take a Listing Where They Don't Know the Area? You can tell the local real estate market is picking up when out-of-area agents foray into taking property listings on Madeline Island. The problem is, these agents have almost no chance of selling your home. To the agent who
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01/12/2014
Sellers, Why Gamble When Choosing an Agent? Can You Beat the Odds? When you select an agent to sell your home, are you calculating your chances of success before you sign a listing contract? Or are you trying to beat the odds? Listing your property with an agent who has made few if any sale
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01/12/2014
Fred Griffin, a buyer's broker in Tallahassee Florida, has provided readers with a list of the primary reasons why some buyers fail to get their offer accepted. This article is a good read and a cautionary discussion on how NOT to succeed in making a real estate purchase. You found your Dre
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01/07/2014
