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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Tempting Fate with Poor Real Estate Advice The World Wide Web has opened the doors of information for real estate consumers. The possibilities are almost limitless. Online home searches are a breeze, public and tax information is a click away and even community information, walk-ability statistics and crime rates are at the other end of [...]
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Keys to a Successful Short Sale There have been several calls and emails from home owners who are either are struggling through the short sale process or wondering what it really takes to negotiate a short sale. From the outside looking in, they some like hostages to transactions going nowhere so I thought I’d just [...]
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Foreclosures and Failed Real Estate Offers So you keep making offers on property and not “getting the deal”. I’ve gotten a couple of emails from buyers asking that same question who feel there are shenanigans going on. Without first hand knowledge of the actual transactions, there are a several very real dynamics in play which [...]
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What if a buyer finds a better deal while they’re in contract to purchase a home?
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Propertly listing a short sale to appraise and close sale.
What Sets Real Estate Buyers Apart? What compels a seller to accept one offer over another besides dollars and cents? Putting aside the black and white aspect of a business decision based solely on numbers, image that you’re in a position where the offer you are placing on a home finds competition. We’ve had a [...]
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Picking Your Real Estate Partner An acquaintance I’d met some time ago decided to become a first time home owner. Though I would have probably voted him least likely to ever be tethered by a mortgage he found a home by happenstance and decided to place an offer to purchase it. The email he sent [...]
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Sellers of real estate becoming angry at buyers because the real estate market is in a slump.
Maybe Someone Thinks Black Eye Sores Are Sexy Ever have one of “those days”? You know where the whole thing slides one way. You’re not sure why it happened or how to stop it? In retrospect, as my day ended, I can share that I was grateful for my grocery cart not having a bum [...]
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Psst, Bonita Springs Real Estate is Looking Up For the first time in a good long while I’m actually looking forward to preparing the June Estero and Bonita Springs real estate market report. Usually, I wait until about a 14 days into the month before I do the report. It gives the agents enough time [...]
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As-Is with The Right To Inspect | Bonita Springs Real Estate Sometimes homes in Bonita Springs are sold “As-Is”. What is an “As-Is” sale? Well, it’s kind of what it sounds like. Typically the purchase offer is written on an “As-Is” language specific contract which also gives the buyer the right to have the home [...]
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