If the floors in the home that you are about to sell are worn, it may pay to update the flooring, By the same estimates, refurbished flooring increases a homes' value by five to eleven percent, all things being equal. In some case, it may be best simply to rip up worn carpeting and lay down hard
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10/08/2007
The most common type of listing agreement, known as the "exclusive right to sell" is likely to be the most effective. It entitles the listing agent to a commission regardless of who sells the property. If another agent comes up with a buyer, he or she splits the commission with the listing brok
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10/08/2007
If you are selling a home in today's market, you will likely be presented with offers that have contingencies. One contingency typically tacked on by buyers is the one that makes the sale contingent on their selling their own home. There is also a financing contingency, which allows buyers a ce
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10/02/2007
Prospective buyers commonly have a contingency in their contracts that calls for a satisfactory house inspection in order for the deal to go through. If so, sellers can make this inevitability work to their advantage by engaging the services of a professional house inspector prior to placing the
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10/01/2007
Some media folks show little reluctance in using terms such as "boom" "bust" and "bubble" when referring to the real estate market. To be sure, real estate in many areas has exhiteted considerable run up prices. It is also an immutable law of nature that gravity will, at some point, exert its i
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10/01/2007
Today's sellers have more reasons than ever to enlist the services of an agent. One way that experienced agents know how to sell a home in a tough market without reducing its price is to offer an interest-rate buy-down on the buyers mortgage. With a typical 2/1 buy-down, the buyer gets a rate th
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10/01/2007
