Bonita Springs Real Estate Myths 1. There are homes for sale on the Imperial River for sale for $100,000. No. There are barely any homes available at that price, let alone on the river. That price is a ridiculous stretch for gulf access real estate in Bonita Springs. There are more bar stool stories about [...]
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Motivation: Selling Is The Ultimate Goal One of the most common questions you’ll hear while a real estate discussion is going on is; how motivated is the seller? Given the climate of the current real estate market it would seem that most sellers would be motivated. In reality, the ad running for their property may [...]
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Sellers of real estate becoming angry at buyers because the real estate market is in a slump.
Humanizing The Buyer and The Offer A fax to email showed up the other day and I opened it to find a cancelation of an offer for one of my listed properties. Having buyers get cold feet isn’t that unusual these days. Heck, if the Dow goes down 200 points on a random Tuesday buyers [...]
The Road to First Time Home Ownership As anticipated the month of March belonged to the first time home buyers. About fifty three percent of all closed sales in the Sunshine MLS were under $200,000. Short sales and foreclosures accounted for about thirty seven percent of the under $200,000 sales. If you’re considering buying a [...]
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Not a Bonita Springs Florida Mailbox Photo credit John Lauber One of the best selling features of Bonita Springs real estate is the snow up north. People from all over the Midwest come to our little part of Florida just to escape the winter weather. Yes, they came to Bonita Springs this winter, too. In [...]
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First Time Home Buyers Circle Your Wagons As you know, AmeriDream and other Down Payment Assistance (DPA) programs were eliminated October 1, 2008 due to the passage of H.R. 3221. You are probably asking yourself how Congress could eliminate these programs that are so critical to the stabilization of home prices and our economy. We [...]
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The Bonita Springs Real Estate Market’s Slow & Steady Recovery After showing property in Gateway, Fort Myers last weekend, I passed Germain Arena in Estero while driving down the interstate. There was an RV show that was in progress and they had filled the lot with campers and RV’s. They were parked everywhere. As I [...]
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Are You Sure Buyers Actually Get In Your Home? Sometimes it really isn’t that difficult to figure out why a home isn’t selling. I stumbled onto a big reason why some homes don’t sell this past weekend. There wasn’t a whole bunch of hocus pocus involved or even a comparative market analysis. All the home has to [...]
Come Any Closer & I’ll Jump! This is a thankless job. There are times when it is fun to sell real estate and there are times when it would be more fun to have my fingers crushed in a door. There are things that real estate agents do that is such hard work. Well, some [...]
Do you know what a pop tart agent is? If you’re a buyer, a seller or even another agent, you need to know if you don’t know. There are a couple of species of part tart agents: A pop tart agent gets a phone call and runs out the door to let someone in a [...]
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Keep Quiet, Keep to Yourself, Keep Out During Showings Selling your Bonita Springs home is a business or at least you should approach it that way. The goods and services you offer to buyers, as a Florida home owner is the home itself, your neighborhood amenities and any incentives you would offer to a buyer [...]
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Why Would You Want to Keep This View Secret? Real estate for sale + photos = sold real estate. The basis of this article is to tell you that if you are a seller of real estate in Bonita Springs, Estero or SW Florida your home has to be able to be found and seen [...]
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