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home sellers: SEO Best Practices Real Estate Searches Home Sellers - 09/21/15 02:08 AM

SEO Best Practices Real Estate Searches Home Sellers
If you were a home owner that wanted to sell your home in (ANYTOWNUSA) and were searching for a real estate agent in your town oto sell your home...what are the search phrases you would most likely use in Google, Bing etc... to find the best real estate Agent to assist you in the home sellinng process? I think it can be an interesting discussion and a point of SEO focus for real estate agents and consumers alike.
Over the years I've hosed 100's of real estate websites, spoke all across the Country on Internet … (10 comments)

home sellers: Selling A Home in Atlanta - Home Seller Resources - 09/15/15 01:01 AM

Selling A Home in Atlanta - Home Seller ResourcesAre you selling a home in Atlanta and are looking for some home seller resources to assist you as you start looking into the home selling process? Well you are in luck! We have combined some articles for home seller tips on selling a home, Free CMA, staging a home, preparing a home for sale, dealing with home inspections, pricing the home correctly and so much more. If you are planning on selling a home in Atlanta please feel free to contact us to assist you.

Atlanta Home Sellers Resources … (6 comments)

home sellers: Atlanta GA Home Sellers Get A Free CMA - Whats Your Home Worth? - 12/11/12 02:40 AM

Atlanta GA Free CMA - What is Your Home Worth? Atlanta homeowners selling a home? What is your home worth? All too often when selling a home Atlanta homeowners choose an Atlanta listing agent that tells them what they want to hear, or an Atlanta real estate agent that will at little or no commission but offers them no advice or a home selling marketing plan. That's a major mistake to make when selling a home. When you make the wrong choices only a few things can happen...the home will not sell, will stay on the market for an extended period … (4 comments)

home sellers: Nothing Kills the Sale of a Home Like Pride and Ego! - 08/03/10 12:54 AM

Have you heard the old saying that "Pride comes before a fall?" I have, and I've also seen it in action quite a few times. It is unfortunate to say, but over the years in real estate it seems to be a fairly common yet avoidable occurrence. It is always too bad when real estate deals fall apart needlessly. One of the more common reasons is a contest of wills, or an inflated ego. The seller draws a line in the sand and does not want to move any issues across it. Neither does the buyer. My experience shows me that … (44 comments)

home sellers: Real Estate - The Biggest Investment of Your Life! They Weren't Kidding! - 05/28/10 04:27 AM

Everyone has heard the statement "Real estate is the biggest investment of your life!" Well they weren't kidding. Many homeowners are finding out now the hard way they got themselves in big trouble way over their heads. They may not even be able to set themselves financially right in this lifetime they made such a bad mistake. Marraiges have failed, homes have be lost and credit for many will probably be unrepairable for many in their remaining working careers. The fact of the matter is that many persons purchased the wrong homes, in the wrong locations, and overpaid to boot! To make matters worse … (65 comments)

home sellers: Atlanta Home Selling Strategies in A Buyers market - 03/27/10 06:07 AM

Selling a home in Atlantais normally a trying thing to do in a normal real estate market. Today things are a lot more difficult. Not only are home sales off, but so are prices, and we have rising unemployment. Selling a home in Atlanta is now like holding a yard sale that no one even comes to looking at your items no matter what the price. It is imperative that we not only have the right price but also that we paint, clean carpets, cut lawn, do some upgrades, and beef up the landscaping.
A buyers market is very different. In a buyers market … (10 comments)

home sellers: Atlanta Home Sellers - Spring is Almost Here! Is Your Home Ready to Sell? - 02/21/10 11:13 AM

Many Atlanta homes sellers don't want to paint, clean or fix anything before selling their home. In this market many feel they are already giving it away. Perhaps they are but so is everyone else. The homes that are selling in this market are the ones where the seller is realistic. Sellers that are not in tune with the market and times assume they have the best home, the most square footage, the biggest lot, the best nails and so on! So even though their neighbors have made concessions, or sales prices have collapesed in their neighborhood...it does not apply to them. Isn't that always the … (2 comments)

home sellers: Next! Seller's Aren't Fun Anymore! - 02/19/10 02:42 AM

I went on a listing appointment recently in a neighborhood where the homes were at one time priced over $400,000. Keep in mind, that in this economy, even the $100,000 houses have to be outstanding and have granite kitchens because the short sales and foreclosures have taken prices down - in every neighborhood including your gated, exclusive golf community. This particular house has been listed twice before by decent agents, but they bought the listing. In other words, they've told the sellers whatever they want to hear so they could secure the listing. Why would anyone put themselves through that aggravation when the house … (26 comments)

home sellers: Selling a Home in Atlanta is Overwhelming Isn't It? - 01/27/10 03:51 PM

Thinking of selling your home in Atlanta? Face it, now more than ever it takes a lot of planning, knowledge, and nail biting to sell a home in Atlanta. Price is critical and so is the appearance. We've actually been blessed this last year in real estate to see some stabilization of prices and homes sales. Inventory is down, and mortgage rates are low at least for the time being. Perhaps the free fall is over in falling home values, and then again perhaps it is just the government intervention and an interim pause. Whatever the case may be, one thing … (11 comments)

home sellers: Atlanta Home Sellers Advice - Cash in Lieu of Repairs is Dead! - 01/12/10 02:05 AM

Atlanta homeowners need to know that we live in very different times in more than one way. Not only are home prices under attack, but the entire process of selling real estate for the most part has changed. In fact it is changing too quickly both on the local and national level. Unless homeowners have a very experienced agent guiding them, there will be at a total loss for what is occurring. The homeowner that may sell a home once every 7 or 8 years is lost in a time-warp. They cannot comprehend the new world. The listing or buyers agent that sells … (12 comments)

home sellers: It Doesn’t Apply to Me! - 12/05/09 01:39 PM

Newton’s “Laws of gravity” has always intrigued me. “What goes up must come down!” Why is it that it applies to everyone except home owners and their listing agents? A lot of homeowners and agents just don’t get it. You can see it in the overpriced listings sitting around town forever. There are some absolutes in life and there are other things that are not a given. Take selling and listing price for example.

Guaranteed profit and appreciation are not written in granite. They are not absolutes, and there is a lot of give and take. Just because you … (22 comments)

home sellers: Welcome to Our Home! - 10/29/09 01:08 AM

Does Your Home Say "Welcome?" There are many things that get buyers into a home other than price. For some the attraction is subliminal and for other signals are very tangible. Buyers are usually drawn and attracted to a specific home. In todays market it may be price that gets them on the hook, but the hook that sells homes is that your home says "Welcome!" Once you have attracted a buyer there is a fatal attraction that must keep drawing the buyer into the home emotionally. From the initial exposure of the the home perhaps from online marketing or a classified ad, the price, the … (86 comments)

home sellers: Staging Doesn't Work! - 10/26/09 12:55 AM

Staging Vacant Homes - Who are you really fooling? It takes more than furniture, art pieces and a few carefully placed articles to sell a home. There are other senses that can give away the facts of the home when no one is living there. Our senses can easily alert us to the most obvious of circumstance. Smells, odors, and a lack of them can tell a lot about the home we are showing. Our eyes lead us to the most minute of details that may alert us the home is vacant or perhaps a divorce is taking place. Many in our … (23 comments)

home sellers: Top 10 Reasons Your Home Isn't Selling! - 09/28/09 03:01 AM

First of all there are many homes out their that could sell but do not. They have equity, they are not upside down in a short sale position, and the reason why it isn't selling to another real estate agent is obvious. The onely one that does not seem to get it is home seller. Many home owners scratch their head, and bad mouth their real estate agent if they have one, and blame their agent for their misfortunes! Wrong! The sad fact is that much of the fault of a home not selling is the sellers problem. Under the law, real … (29 comments)

home sellers: Numbed to the News! - 07/01/09 01:42 PM

Today's Headlines..."Mortgage Applications are Off By 19%" places fear in the hearts of many. I confess, it is beyound scary even if the news shrugs it off and the stock markets climb higher. That is not where I want to place my money. I think it is safe in real estate...at least at the end of the day at least I own something.
The question is are you really surprised at any of today's news, even if in your hearts you already know the answers to the stories may be hald truths or just totally wrong. Each day bad news is released and we are inundated with … (18 comments)

home sellers: Listing Case Scenarios - What Do You Tell the Home Sellers? - 04/17/09 02:23 PM

"Truth is a double edged sword that can hurt when you are not prepared to hear the news." There is so much difficulty when listing a home in this current market. There are loads of homes that you have to compete with in foreclosures, bank owned, short sales and new homes that have been sitting for a while un occupied. In many areas... comps of foreclosures are putting a major drag on prices. After months of a home on the market you hammer out a a contract only to find the home does not appariase, the buyer lost their job or buyer … (10 comments)

home sellers: The Home Seller Says No! So Does the Buyer! - 02/14/09 12:27 PM

Over the years in Atlanta real estate market there are a lot of lessons learned. Ones that are learned well are the hard ones that did not sell - we do not want to repeat them. Once is enough. As part of our listing routine when Ellen and I go on a listing appointment we first listen to the seller, and their needs. We then walk through the home to get reconcile the sellers wants to the reality of the market. More often than not we run into objections about listing a home. It isn't always price. More often than not … (2 comments)

home sellers: Why Some Agents Cannot Tell the Sellers the Truth! - 12/13/08 11:47 AM

Have you ever wondered what is up with agents that do not properly price homes? I mean the price is not even close. If I drive into a neighborhood that I know the top price is 400K - so what is with the 550K or 650K price? It just doesn't make sense. The home will never appraise, and will never sell. All the agent is doing is feeding false hope. The word "Enabling" comes to mind. Face it, the days of 'buying listings' are over until the next upswing in the market.
I often wonder what the listing agent is thinking? This … (24 comments)

home sellers: The Pause in Real Estate. - 10/18/08 05:27 AM

Real estate for those that have been in it for a long time is known to take a pause for a while. A 'Pause' is down time when the phones do not ring, there are no walk ins to the office, and anxious buyers step back behind the yellow safety line until things seem to have calmed down. A "Pause' is nothing new. Sometimes the cause for the pause could be an increase in mortgage rates, economic uncertainty, bad weather, layoffs at local plants, tax time, a bank failure, and yes even an upcoming national election. Normally, the market becomes very slow for a … (43 comments)

home sellers: Seller's On The Edge! What's Your Home Worth? - 08/26/08 04:48 AM

There isn't much that can prepare you to deal with the current real estate market we are in. The double digit mortgages of the 1980's, WRAP mortgages and the early 1990's when in many markets appreciation took a holiday! The current real estate market is a credit crunch that is testing everyone patience! We have would be home sellers that purchased homes with no money down and borrowed against future value only to find out there was no appreciation. There are home sellers that purchased with money down, but tapped into the equity to maintain their lifestyle - cruises, trips cars … (49 comments)

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