5 Home Selling Tips Buyers Would Give Sellers

It is a rare occurrence these days to have a home’s buyer and seller sit down around the kitchen table to make a deal. In some areas, they do still sit around the attorney’s boardroom table to close the deal, but by that time, the deal is done and the ship has already sailed on [...]

6 Selling Truths Sellers Need to Hear

Selling a home can be stressful for the unprepared or under prepared consumer. Crazy expectations, market mis-education, and the common misconception that all homes sell in 30 minutes like they do on HGTV creates the wrong expectation for home sellers. Avoid the misunderstandings that could ruin the transaction and your chances at selling your home. [...]

Six Must-Have Features for Your Next Home

Make-or-break features for your next home What's missing from your current home? Storage space? Decent parking? Privacy? Chances are, you might not have noticed these missing features when you and your home were in the honeymoon phase. But, sometime in the first few months, that deficiency became glaringly obvious. When you tour a home, it's [...]

Flipping Without Flopping

The promise of turning a quick, hefty profit on house flipping can be irresistible, but it takes a certain investment savvy not to flop on the flip. Flipping is a real estate investment that involves buying a distressed property, swiftly improving its value – typically through physical upgrades – and then selling it at a [...]

Home Improvements That Sell

In a mash-up survey of 450 real estate agents and 1,660 homeowners, homeowners get it – most of the time – when it comes to home improvements that help induce sales and higher prices. Realtor.com's home improvement survey, conducted online from June 6 to June 13, 2012, tapped agents and Realtor.com users who are homeowners [...]

Five Musts Before You List Your Home

Deciding to list your home for sale is a momentous time. It means you will be moving on to a new stage of life, no matter if you’re moving up or sizing down. Take a moment to look over these tips for what every seller should do before they put their home on the market. [...]

10 Ways to Avoid Turning Off Potential Homebuyers

10 Ways to Avoid Turning Off Potential Homebuyers What a difference a couple of years makes. Back in 2007, homebuyers would beg to purchase your house. They would even bid more than the asking price for the privilege to do so. Today … well, not so much. Once the real estate bubble burst and foreclosures [...]

Getting Your Backyard Ready for Summer

Summer is just around the corner, and if you want to be ready to host your friends and family with that perfect barbecue, you should get started soon! If you live in a part of the country that faces harsher weather in the winter months, then you might want to first focus on general maintenance [...]

Kitchens Sell a House

It's a tool used by house flippers all across the nation. Stagers know its power. Real estate agents push its importance. What is this not-so-well-kept secret of real estate? A kitchen can sell a house.   A kitchen is the heart of a home. This is true all across the globe. The old saying that [...]

Remodeling Improvements That Entice Buyers

Over the last few years, some homeowners have opted to stay put for the time being and that's caused them to consider remodeling instead of moving. But most homeowners know that one day they might need or want to sell their home so which remodels help to add value and entice buyers? There are a [...]

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