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 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 February 22nd, 2011

How to market real estate with great wide-angle lens photography.

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chrisgriffith on May 7th, 2009

Shouldn’t Real Estate Buyers Actually Buy? Never will your home seem to be instantly sold more so than the day you mention to your friends, neighbors or colleagues that you’re putting it on the market. Suddenly, it seems people come out of the woodwork that really, really secretly loved your home and have always wanted [...]

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chrisgriffith on October 21st, 2008

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 [...]

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chrisgriffith on August 3rd, 2008

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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chrisgriffith on July 23rd, 2008

Getting kicked When Your Down Today my doorbell rang and there was a familiar face standing there when I opened the door. It was Sandy. Sandy’s had a rough year. He and his wife lost their Bonita Springs home. You see, they got one of those crappy loans that just ballooned to oblivion. I watched [...]

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chrisgriffith on July 20th, 2008

A Tale of Pricing Riverfront Gulf Access Homes Sometimes when homes don’t sell as fast as expected the homeowner becomes frustrated. The current state of the Bonita Springs real estate market has brought sales to some home sellers while other homes remain unsold. The only thing that is obvious about the current real estate market [...]

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