Maybe You Should Test The System There’s currently a fair sized pile of printed out property reports on my desk that have been marked up and highlighted from last weeks showings. Almost thirty percent of them have a big black slash across the page. The agents who were supposed to be marketing the properties were [...]
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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 [...]
Real Estate Not Worth Fighting Over In the last few years the Bonita Springs real estate market has had some major changes and adjustments. The short sale, pre-foreclosure and foreclosure properties alone have hit the market in massive volume upsetting the system. Everyone has heard the belly aching and complaining that real estate agents, me [...]
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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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If you don’t see the video above click **here** for background music while you read. There must be 50 ways to leave your lover, so said Paul Simon. There are probably just as many ways to do a real estate market report, too. Here’s how I do my monthly Bonita Springs real estate market reports: [...]
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Sex Sells But It Doesn’t Sell Real Estate Day number two in the hunt for a new Florida home for my buyer brought us to a lovely condo in Estero at West Bay Club. Let’s just say the house hunting was a bust. Literally. There were more than a few paintings, sculptures and works of [...]
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Hi Chris, this is Sally Saleslady and you showed my Bonita Beach condo yesterday. I was just wondering if you had some feedback. Most buyers and sellers of Bonita Springs real estate don’t know that conversations like this take place. Listing agents will call the agent that showed the property to see if there is [...]
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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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It’s Just an Offer, Not an Insult Sometimes a buyer’s offer isn’t received so well. Seller’s may still have in their mind that their home is not only worth what they paid for it, but even more. If it’s been said once, it’s been said a million times. A home has to appraise to close [...]
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Just Because You Don’t Like it Doesn’t Mean it’s Not True Bad news stinks. Nobody likes to hear it and nobody likes to read it. It is with great regret that I have to bring bad news to home owners that have decided to sell their home and haven’t come to the realization that they [...]
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