You’ve heard the home closing horror stories: At the eleventh hour the buyers find that the amount needed for closing exceeds what they were originally quoted. Well thanks to a new law this experience is now a thing of the past. If you’re about to close on a new house, your timing couldn’t be better. Thanks to new mortgage rules […]
When selling a home, you need to understand the current consumer expectations and lifestyles. While some trends come and go, others remain popular for years and certain amenities that home buyers now consider “nice-to-have” may soon move into the “must-have” category in the coming years. Regardless of which category these features fall into for a buyer, […]
You’re ready to sell your home and to put it on the market, and you’ve decided to go it alone. Without the support of a licensed real estate agent to help you navigate your way through the process, you’ll need to tackle a number of complex and labor intensive tasks including, but by no means limited to the […]
Home not selling? That could happen for a number of reasons you can’t control, like a unique home layout or having one of the few homes in the neighborhood without a garage. There is one factor you can control: your home price. While you’d like to get top dollar for your home, consider these six signs that indicate […]
A Loan Estimate (LE) is a form that lists basic information about the terms of a mortgage loan for which you’ve applied. The idea behind the Loan Estimate (like the Good Faith Estimate before it) is to get critical information about the loan into the hands of the borrower as early as possible so that you as […]
As multiple offer situations have become common place, we real estate agents are increasingly running into situations where the seller wants to “shop” an offer. Here’s an example: a seller has received three offers to purchase their home. One of the offers is higher than the other two, but the seller prefers the closing and possession dates on […]
Americans Love Their Pets According to the American Veterinary Medical Association over 43 million American households own a dog, and over 36 million own at least one cat. While it’s uncertain how many of these households are owner-occupied and how many rented, since 65.5% of Americans own their homes, it’s probably safe to say that many pet […]
When you’re trying to understand or influence human behavior—as you might do when, say, listing and marketing a home for sale—it’s important to respect the distinction between what people should do, and what they actually do do. This is the difference between economics and behavioral economics. Classical economics theory is based on the belief that […]
For those considering selling their home one of the first questions is How Do I Determine the Value of My Home / What’s My Home Worth? Today there are literally dozens of Internet sites out there offering to assist you in determining your home’s value, and probably the most well known among these is Zillow and it’s Zestimate. […]
The Department of Veteran Affairs created the VA loan program to help veterans and their families buy homes. One of the advantages for Veterans is that the VA limits the amount of fees the lender and title company is allowed to charge the buyer. Some of the non-allowable expenses are considered “junk fees,” while others represent […]
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