Use Realtors to buy real estate property because real estate transactions are complicated
Actually the opposite is the case. A few years ago I was referred to a seller who was in the real estate title business, thinking he knew real estate well enough purchase a condo on his own.
Get a Realtor’s Evaluation of your property for accuracy
This evaluation is called Automated Valuation Method (AVM). Essentially, it is computer generated software that reaches out for publicly available data and then uses that data to offer a suggested value—a quick result which does not involve a human being who has analyzed the actual data. The soft wear has never been in the neighborhood, nor on that particular street nor inside the home.
Deciding to move is already an emotional process, but throw in the fact that you’re considering downsizing and it’s likely to add an extra element of anxiety to the mix. But considering we’re living larger in the U.S. by an upwards of approximately 1,000 square-feet since 1973 — and space per person has doubled — you’ve got to ask yourself, how much space do you really need? There are several benefits that come with moving into a smaller abode, and once you become privy to them, you won’t even think twice about packing those boxes. (more…)
Walk to End Alzheimer’s Sat Sept 17th
There will be a fun rally beforehand with music, food and merchant booths. Alzheimer’s is a needy cause and giving back to our community gives all of us more clarity on what is truly important.
If you are a real estate agent ask yourself these questions: Do you use social media to brag about your latest real estate listing or how many deals you have done? When meeting with clients do you talk about what a great salesperson you are or are you more focused on their needs?
Jun 12
20160
commentsIn Real Estate Listings, Real Estate Staging, Real Estate Success, Real Estate Technology
Most real estate buyers use the internet to buy homes and visual is very important
Beginning as children we read picture books, and in today’s high-tech world we continue to focus ever-more intensely on the graphic and the colorful. The question we in the real estate professional need to ask ourselves is, why are there so many sub-par photographs nowadays in real estate listings?
May 06
20161
commentsIn Real Estate, Real Estate Listings, Real Estate Sellers, Real Estate Staging, Real Estate Success, Selling Real Estate
When staging a real estate property incorporate the visual as well as the other 4 senses
You also want to establish a good impression on potential real estate buyers and perhaps bond with them so that you can nurture them into a future loyal client. To do all the above and create a property to remember it is imperative that you hire a real estate stager.
My new book, Getting the Property SOUL’D – A Breakthrough System of Successful Stress-Free Buying and Selling, is filled with stories about those clients who listened to my advice and those who did not. The results are very clear: those sellers who hired stagers and created a pleasing neutral environment had quick well priced sales. Those sellers who insisted on doing their own thing in their own way got much less desirable results and those sellers who would not do anything at all fared the worst.
When a buyer enters a home, he knows when a seller doesn’t care much about their property. and even if it is just needing a thorough cleaning and emptying out of the seller’s belongings, a buyer will want to negotiate, because he/she can’t see beyond all the dirt and stuff.
Apr 30
20160
commentsIn Buying in San Francisco, Real Estate, Real Estate Buyers, Real Estate Market Analysis, San Francisco Real Estate
Too much demand for San Francisco real estate drives up the prices
However, to just build and build and not create a supportive infrastructure just won’t work.
Our traffic problem is horrible. The streets are a mess with potholes and our bus system is inefficient. The sewer system is currently being upgraded but will it be large enough to meet the needs of the burgeoning population? Do we have enough water? What about our power grid?
Apr 11
20162
commentsIn Real Estate Students, Real Estate Technology, Real Estate Training, San Francisco Real Estate
The number of minorities who have enrolled in real estate courses has skyrocketed
Since then the economic climate has changed in the Bay Area. It has gone from a market reeling from the meteoric impact of the Great Recession of 2007 to 2009 to the one of the greatest real estate booms in American History.