5 CRITERIA FOR PRICING A HOME
When you put your home up for sale, one of the best ways to determine the asking price is to look at comparable sales. There’s rarely a perfect apples-to-apples comparison, so a pricing decision often relies on comparisons to several recent sales in the area. Here are...
MUST-HAVE TOOLS FOR HOMEOWNERS
When you own your home, things are going to break and, unless you want to spend your money on visits from a neighborhood handyman, you’re going to need to fix them yourself. Luckily, you don’t need an arsenal of tools to handle most home maintenance fixes. These five...
No Worries… Home Prices Coming in for a SOFT Landing
Home princes have appreciated considerably over the last five years. This has some concerned that we may be in for another dramatci correction. However, recent statistics suggest home values will not crash as they did a decade ago. Instead, this time they will come...
What Can Be Worse Than Mortgage Fraud?
The articles about mortgage fraud have been non-stop during the last couple of years. As a Realtor®, I always advise my clients to call the escrow agent (attorney, title company) to verify that they did in fact send you an email requesting x amount of funds to be...
Mortgage Pre-Approval
MORTGAGE PRE-APPROVAL - your first step in the home buying process. Ever had an agent deny to show you a home because you weren't pre-approved for a mortgage? It's not because they're mean, or they don't value your business... it's actually because they're looking out...
New Foreclosure Prevention Program
At the direction of the Federal Housing Finance Agency Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae are introducing a new foreclosure prevention program called Flex Modification This new program will replace the Home Affordable Mortgage Program (HAMP) which is expiring end Dec. 2016....
2017 Housing Expectations
Those most optimistic about the economy are under the age of 44, live in urban areas and have higher...
Selling Your House In Winter
Go easy on the holiday displays Apply some logic when it comes to Christmas decorations. Tasteful displays will, quite literally, show the home in its best light. Outfitting the home to compete with the Griswolds will make it a spectacle, but not necessarily...
Garage Door Insulation Panels
So the weather forecast for this weekend (Nov 18/19, 2016) was calling for 25mph winds on Saturday, and 30mph winds on Sunday with temps going down to the low 30s at night. Our garage and utility room which you enter into from the garage are not insulated. On the few...
Increase Your Home Value For Summer Sale
Increase Your Home Value For Summer Sale If you are planning to sell your home this summer, you don't need a huge budget in order to get your home market ready. Here are some helpful tips to help you get it looking great with little effort, and not too much cash. 1....
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Whether you are contemplating selling your home as FSBO, or you want a free market analysis of your home to list it with a Realtor®, or perhaps you are wanting to purchase a home I will gladly help you with all the above.