Everyone knows that the big shining object in a real estate offer to purchase is the price. Buyers and their agents use the price to blind home sellers to the trouble hiding in the details. If you let yourself become blinded by the bright light of a high price, you've set yourself up for frustration. A wise agent earns their money by helping their selling clients avoid becoming blinded by the light.
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There is no safe level of radon exposure. Radon is a naturally occurring gas that is harmful to human health and linked to lung cancer. Forensic Application Consulting published a detailed report to s...
Nothing disrupts consumer sentiment like uncertainty. And when it comes to real estate, nothing changes a market like unemployment. Right now, home owners in the Washington D.C. area who are uncertain...
When we settle into our homes, we select paint colors because we like how they reflect the family members' personalities in that home, or maybe it's a current trend.You move into a house and make it y...
Last year, the multi-billion dollar commission lawsuit settlement the National Association of REALTORS (NAR) accepted triggered great expectations of commission relief for home sellers. That was until...
Wednesday is the best day to make your home active on the multiple listing service (MLS). When your listing goes live on the MLS, the data is sent to buyers using a listing-search notification program...
There was a day when buyers controlled the market, and sellers agreed to concessions and negotiated on price. I remember those days when the market started to change. In the summer of 2016, we saw mor...
The market is never just good or bad. It depends on which side of the transaction you're on. If you're buying this year and the trend continues, you will pay a premium to close in May and June. Howeve...
Zillow, Homes.com, Realtor.com and the bazillion of other third party real estate sites are useful for many things. I love the fact that these sites help consumers tour homes without leaving their hom...
Realtor associations needed to be at their best to prepare members to do business without an MLS-published offer of compensation. They had months to prepare members to alter their thinking to transiti...