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...
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...
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...
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 – 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…...
