Should You Consider Listing Your Home During the Holidays?
As the holidays approach, I’m always asked the same questions: Should we keep our property on the real estate market or take it off? Do we list now, wait until after the…
Practical Advice For Home Sellers
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Get a Property Inspection Before You List
Many real estate agents and home sellers focus on staging, cleaning, and painting a property so it will ‘shine’ for potential buyers. They spend a good deal of time looking at comps…
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Home Selling Tips: Creative Ways to Sell a House
What extra steps would you take to sell your home in this market? Display a bowl of oranges in the kitchen? Bury a statue of St. Joseph in the back yard? Serve…
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Top 3 tips for selling a home in 2011
If you’re planning to sell your home this year, I’ve got 3 tips to help you succeed. In my next blog post, I’ll have tips for home buyers. 1. Price it right.…
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How your neighbor can help you sell your home
Are you on good terms with your neighbors? If you aren’t, you might want to mend those fences before listing your home. A client of mine didn’t get along with his neighbor,…
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Should you get a pre-inspection before putting your house on the market?
Sometimes, sellers will have a pre-inspection performed on their home before hanging out the ‘For Sale’ sign. But is this a good idea? It depends. In general, a pre-sale inspection of your…
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Real Estate Agents Hate it When Sellers
It’s no secret that home sellers are under a lot of stress. It’s a tougher market, home prices have fallen a lot, and many are trying to get as much money as…
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When adding curb appeal to your home, don’t overlook the neighbors
In this tough real estate market, anything you can do to make the exterior of your home look more inviting is worth considering. And that includes putting up a fence to conceal…
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How Google can add to your home’s value
There’s a ‘light-filled’ 1894 Victorian house for sale in San Francisco’s Bernal Heights neighborhood. Among the advertised amenities: Two bedrooms, a library/media room with fireplace—and proximity to the Google shuttle. You’ve probably seen…
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What are pocket listings and why are they on the rise?
In the past few months, I’ve noticed an uptick in the number of ‘pocket listings.’ Here’s a quick look at what pocket listings are, why they’re becoming more commonplace, and what it…
