Buyers are often interested in working directly with home sellers in an effort to save the commission. Interestingly enough, this is the same reason sellers don’t hire Realtors®. However, both the buyer and the seller cannot save the commission. A home buyer often thinks they have earned the commission by finding a home, checking its […]
A frequent call I get from my homeowners is asking about showing activity on their home. Homeowners feel that since they haven’t had anyone through the home that it isn’t being shown. This makes homeowners feel there is no activity on their listing. Buyers today are more tech savvy than buyers of a decade ago. […]
This is a great time to consider selling a home in Alexandria! For more information, take a look at the graph above. The red line on the graph represents the average number of days that each home is spending on the market (in other words, the average amount of time that it takes to sell […]
Realtor.com® recently released their Winter Home Buyer Report during the first part of November. This report reflected sentiments of current buyers looking for homes and expecting to buy over the winter months. The report shows a pent-up demand among buyers that were unable to buy during the third quarter of this year. Cited the most […]
When finalizing a divorce, an important decision to be made is the division of assets between the husband and the wife. This exercise appears to be simple enough: put a value on each asset from the marriage and then divide those assets per a mutual signed agreement. A challenge arises when you need to make […]
During the buying or selling process, it may be obvious to ask your real estate agent questions related to these two transactions. After you buy or sell, who do you talk to then? Being a homeowner, you will need a reliable source for help and good suggestions for many years to come. My goal is […]
“The risk of a wrong decision is preferable to the terror of indecision.” – Maimonides Whether you agree with the quote above or not, by delaying your decision to buy in today’s market it will cost you more. Indecision has lost more money than any bad decision every did. As I have reported to you […]
You have probably thought about or at least said out loud “if I knew then, what I know now, I would have done things different.” Thoughts like “I should have stayed in school,” or “I should have listened a bit more to my parents” come to mind.
Even if you have a property lost due to foreclosure or short sale and you might feel relief from being out from under your mortgage obligation, the cancelled amount must be included in your income tax reporting depending on circumstances.
Although it seems obvious to homeowners that there are benefits to regularly changing the heating and air-conditioning filters; creating a system to make sure it gets done is the real challenge.
