Buying and Selling Tips
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Two Ways Homebuyers Can Win in Today’s Market
Navigating a Sellers Market This Spring It’s no secret that many prospective homebuyers are finding the current realestate market challenging. One of the more unexpected consequences of theCovid pandemic was the hyper-focus on one’s home. This has resulted in a robustmarket where sellers are seeing advancing home sales prices and multiple offers.While competition is fierce, clearly for sellers to sell, they need buyers. If your goalis to find a new home this year, there are a couple ways you can maximize yourability to have your offer accepted. Two Ways Homebuyers Can Win in Today’s Market Act Early – There are a couple reasons why home buyers should start earlythis year.…
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Making the Right Move: A Checklist for Homebuyers
Whether you are a A Case of Cold Feet: How to Handle the First Time Homebuyer or an experienced homeowner, buying a new home is always stressful. Here’s a handy checklist of six things you can do up front to make the process a lot easier. Before you start packing, here’s what you need to do. Prepare a budget. You need a clear picture of your family’s finances before you even think about calling a Realtor or applying for a mortgage. List all your monthly fixed expenses, such as car payments, current rent or mortgage, utilities, school tuition, and loan payments. Add categories for other expenses such as food and…
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Make It Sparkle: Eight Tips for Adding Instant Curb Appeal
When home buyers drive your neighborhood, or when Realtors are previewing for their clients, what do they see? You never get a second chance to make a first impression, so make sure your home has the The Wow Factor: Seven Quick Curb Appeal Tips that makes people go “wow.” Take a walk around your property right now—front to back. Pretend you’re a prospective buyer. Do you like what you see? Here are eight quick tips for creating a visual impression that makes them want to see more. Start at the door. Get out your paintbrush and spruce up the front door. A bright color will attract attention from the street,…
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Ready, Set, Sell: Checklist for Home Sellers
You want to sell your home in the shortest possible time for the highest possible price, right? Of course that is every seller’s goal and it’s your Realtor’s goal as well. So here’s a handy 7 Additional Quick Fixes To Make A Great First Impression When Selling A Home you need to do to make that happen. Follow the 50% rule. Look at every flat surface in your house and take at least 50% of the items away. This goes for kitchen and bathroom counters, desktops, bookshelves and dressers. Maybe you do use that blender/toaster/coffeemaker/radio every day, but for now, keep it out of sight and get it out only…
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The Complete Seller’s To-Do Checklist
Getting your house ready to put on the market can seem like an overwhelming task. Simplify the process by taking it room by room and one step at a time. The biggest priority is making it clean, free of clutter and de-personalizing it so buyers can envision themselves there. The more attractive you make your home to buyers, the more likely you are to sell it quickly and for top dollar. You can view the work you put into getting your house ready as sweat equity and the reward is usually well worth it! MAKE THE WHOLE HOUSE APPEALING AND INVITING The first step is to take a thorough look…
