Sometimes when a homeowner is selling their home, they see dollar signs and consider ‘saving’ the 3%-6% commission paid to a realtor and try to sell it on their own, aka For Sale By Owner or FSBO! But in reality is this way of thinking actually pennywise and dollar foolish? In other words does the […]
Whether you are a seller or buyer of what is, or will likely be, the largest financial transaction of your life… Selecting the right real estate agent is a key piece of the puzzle! That said, and with the plethora of real estate agents in the marketplace to select from, how does a consumer make […]
For some home sellers the temptation to avoid paying a real estate agent a commission for their services may override the multiple benefits that using one provides! For anyone who is going to be selling a home, the metrics that matter most to them should include the amount of time the house will be on the market before it sells, the […]
Follow @Hallmark Abstract Service With Spring arriving yesterday, homeowners minds will begin to turn outdoors which means that landscaping and planting gardens won’t be very far behind! Now the fact is that some of us have a green thumb and some of us don’t! For some merely dropping seeds on the ground results in a […]
With the internet and numerous For Sale By Owner tools that are available to anyone who wants to buy or sell a home, the temptation exists for them to ‘save the commission’ and do it themselves! But whether buying or selling is going it alone really the smart way to proceed with what will likely […]
Although in many markets around the country there’s a real estate feeding frenzy pitting buyer against buyer and leading to bidding wars, in some markets the action is slightly more tepid! For the sake of this discussion we are going to focus on the slower real estate markets and the angst experienced by the seller […]
Technology has become a key component for buyers and sellers of real estate, particularly in the residential marketplace! For those of us who are old enough to remember the days of scouring the Sunday newspaper classifieds for the ‘homes for sale’ in towns we were interested in, and yet young enough to have seen the […]
