chrisgriffith on February 8th, 2012

Selling Real Estate With Care After Probate The only thing certain in life is death and taxes … and probably how emotionally taxing death is when liquidating real estate. Selling real estate is stressful enough for some folks without compounding it with the emotional burden of liquidating the remaining assets of someone dear or even [...]

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chrisgriffith on February 1st, 2012

Why Are There So Many Real Estate Addendums About a decade ago I faxed (fax machines were once bleeding edge) a contract to a prospective real estate purchaser. She worked in the Pennsylvania school system and gave me a number at work to fax it to. A few hours later she called and said, I [...]

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chrisgriffith on January 18th, 2012

  Selling Your Bonita Springs Home – Remove Dated Decor There isn’t a more magical time of the year than Christmas, uh, “the holidays”. A good portion of the masses deck their halls and don their lights with gay apparel as early as, well, before Thanksgiving now. I think it was a little about two [...]

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chrisgriffith on January 11th, 2012

Real Estate Lead Capture Maybe you’re curious about what your home is worth or you’re a serious buyer prowling the web for the latest new listings or price reductions in the area you want to buy a home in, sooner or later a pop up window will ask for more information. Whether you’re a buyer [...]

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chrisgriffith on December 7th, 2011

And Sometimes Real Estate Buyers Back Out There you are minding your own bees wax. You’ve tended your real estate, preparing it for sale the way a dutiful seller should, shining it sparkling clean, pricing it right, listing it for sale and before you know it, an offer comes in. The bantering counter offers go [...]

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chrisgriffith on November 8th, 2011

Homes For Sale In Bonita Springs | Online or Out of Touch Never could anyone have imagined just a few short years ago that social media would be such an important way to advertise and sell real estate. With the technological advances that have developed over the last decade we’re well beyond a real estate [...]

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chrisgriffith on October 26th, 2011

Condo Inspections, AS-IS Contracts and Nit Pickery It’s mail day! There have been a variety of question regarding home inspections from both buyers and sellers. Here’s the latest and greatest from the mail bag that I’m able to squeeze into six-hundred-ish words or less: Question: The home we’re interested in is offered as-is with the [...]

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chrisgriffith on September 28th, 2011

Save The Drama For Your Mama There’s no crying in real estate. At least there really shouldn’t be. Typically, all parties involved in the transaction have a common goal for real estate to change hands so what is it that makes it all go haywire? So there everyone is, minding their own business when “exhibit [...]

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chrisgriffith on September 21st, 2011

Price, Condition, Location & Value in Real Estate The snow birds are on their way. This year, like many of the other years, the first signs of their return are the transport trucks delivering their automobiles. To that end, let it be known that a winner of the Facebook “car hauler bingo 2011” contest is [...]

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chrisgriffith on September 7th, 2011

Sucker Punches & Low Ball Offers on Your Real Estate So there you are minding your business and your agent calls with the great news that you’ve received an offer for your real estate. Hopefully, the offer price isn’t going to sting and leave a mark. If it’s a “low ball offer” bone up on [...]

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chrisgriffith on August 23rd, 2011

Last Ditch Home Selling Method When I was growing up in Northern Ohio I recall finding Indian artifacts in the fields. I grew up on a farm near the river and not far from Lake Erie so it would appear that it was a primo spot for hunting and growing crops. There were arrowheads all [...]

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chrisgriffith on July 6th, 2011

Choosing a Real Estate Attorney or Law Office You may have already asked or someone may have told you but using a real estate attorney to close your real estate transaction isn’t required in Florida.  It is, in professional opinion of most real estate agents, a very wise choice for most transactions. The real estate [...]

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chrisgriffith on June 22nd, 2011

Is Your Agent Selling Buggy Whips or Real Estate? There are plenty of folks reading this in black and white print who don’t use or enjoy computers. I’ve had a few phone calls (and letters) from folks who remind me that not everybody has access to the internet. As a consumer, you don’t have to [...]

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chrisgriffith on May 25th, 2011

The Vague Verbal Real Estate Offer It’s only the last week of May and the first verbal offer from an absentee buyer has been phoned in. The calls generally go like this, “I’m so-and-so with Super Happy Fun Slide Brokerage, Inc. and I have a buyer who would like to offer $XYZ for your Doe [...]

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chrisgriffith on April 20th, 2011

A Fool and His Money … It only takes running an ad or two on Craigslist to open the flood gates of scammerific emails engineered specifically to pry a person away from their money. There’s always someone with an angle out there but there are ways to figure out whether the request is legitimate or [...]

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