Purchasing, Selling, Protecting and Maintaining Your Home

When real estate prices fall and more than six months of inventory remains on the real estate market, the market is (take your pick): slumping, depressed, softening, falling or slowing down.

Whichever term you choose, it doesn't matter. What matters is the fact that people still buy and sell. The real estate market hasn't come to an absolute stand still. Adjustment to the... Read More

In this buyer's market for home selling, it is very important that the home look its best. Whether you prep your home yourself or hir a professional stager here are some helpful tips for home selling:

Stagers bring in a vast array of items to spruce up the house. Here is a small sampling of items professional stagers often use to dress... Read More

Why do some homes sit on the real estate market and others sell? It could be poor quality photos uploaded online.

• Photos that are too dark with blinds and drapes closed

• Photos turned on their side and not rotated

• Junk in the room

• Uncropped photos

• Pets sleeping in a chair

• Not enough photos submitted, especially if it’s only one unflattering shot.

• High resolution pictures that take... Read More

Winter is not the ideal time to put your home selling, if you live where it gets cold and rains or snows, primarily because your home won't show as well. There are steps, however that can be taken to can do for home selling in this dull time of the year:

• Shovel a path through the snow, especially if it's still falling.

• Footprints on freshly fallen snow will turn... Read More

How much experience should real estate agents have?

Instead of asking how much experience a real estate agent has, ask how many times they have renewed their real estate license. In Oklahoma, for example, real estate licenses are issued for three years; New Hampshire's term is two years; in California, there are four-year terms.

10% of the agents do 90% of the business... Read More

The quality of your purchase offer is almost as important as the price you offer in buying a home. Listing real estate agents should not be placed in the position of having to educate selling agents on how to write an offer. Poorly written offers reflect badly on everybody and lessen your chances as a buyer to get your offer accepted.

10 tips on how they write the purchase... Read More