Buying and Selling Real Estate

Those of us who have worked in sales have been trained to get a series of affirmative answers from prospects, starting small and working to the big one (the sale). And that is what you want to do as a home seller, too. The difference is your sales pitch is a series of images. Those [...]

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Something that most homeowners face when preparing to sell their home is the decision of what to do to make the house more attractive and marketable. Here in California, particularly for “non-luxury” housing, we are facing a buyers market and competition is stiff. This is true in many regions across the state right now, and [...]

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Back-to-back closes occurs when you buy and sell a house at or near the same time. The two closings are always done sequentially,one after the other,never simultaneously. This is a way for both the title company and government to get paid each time the title of a property changes hands. Back-to-back closes are also called [...]

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You can prep your house for resale without spending a lot of money and it can look great, too. You probably own the things you need to stage your house like a pro. The key is to freshen, recycle, reuse and do not over design. Here are some things you can do for bargain basement [...]

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The current mortgage and real estate crisis has created a boom in the private mortgage note business (notes created by owner financing). Desperate home sellers are increasingly becoming the mortgage lender by necessity as banks have gone to the other extreme in lending practices. In the sub-prime days, lenders would give you a mortgage, often [...]

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We were going to sell our house, and started going through the steps, but then decided not to but I wanted to share with you what you need to do if you are serious about selling real estate right now. First of all, you should develop a real plan, sit down and think about every [...]

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What do buyers see when they look at your house? Is it clean and uncluttered? Is it well maintained? What kind of impression is your house making when prospective buyers see it? Why does it matter? Why is it that buyers just can not see the potential? The answers to all of these questions may [...]

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So what does light have to do With Selling a Home? Maybe, everything. Real estate pros will tell you that when people are looking for a home they will nearly always say they want a place that feels light and airy. Donna Freeman of HGTV says no one ever asked to see a dark and [...]

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Selling real estate is always a topic of interest for any home owner. The average American will sell a house every five to seven years. Given a 90 year life expectancy and assuming you buy your first house at age 30. You can expect to selling 8 to 12 houses in your life time. When [...]

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Are you thinking of selling your home? Perhaps your home is already for sale or it has been for sale forever. A lot of the time when people decide to sell a home they would rather sell it than fix it. But there is a problem with that. Most buyers want a house that is [...]

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