Real Estate Tips & Advice


5 Biggest Turnoffs When Touring a Home

A real estate agent’s job entails more than assisting clients with the nitty-gritty details of buying or selling a home. Good agents also tour as many homes as possible. Knowing the local inventory gives…

How to Sell a Home Remotely

Are you an ‘accidental landlord’—someone who had to move many miles away but couldn’t afford to sell your home due to the low home values in recent years? If so, you might…
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How to Avoid Homebuyers Remorse in Real Estate

Unlike store merchandise or a car, you can’t ‘try before you buy’ a home, which makes your decision to buy or not buy even more stressful. So, in this hotly competitive market,…

5 Things Not Necessarily Included in Your Home Purchase

The buyer of a historic Victorian home in upstate New York fell in love with the gigantic antique mirror in the foyer. The mirror looked as if it were made for the…
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Open Houses – Five Ways to Approach Them

Open Houses have long been a tradition in real estate. Each weekend across the country, hordes of agents put up their A-frame signs and point buyers in the direction of open houses. Meanwhile, buyers with all kinds of…

Is Pricing Low the Way to Go

It may seem logical that if you price your home low, it will sell quickly. Some real estate agents believe everyone should price low. The truth is, there are a lot of things to consider when…
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How to Buy a Home Below Current Real Estate Values

Want to increase your chances of buying a home below current real estate values? Just look for a seller who didn’t listen to his agent. The best real estate agents encourage their…

5 Home Buying Tips for Gen X & Gen Y Buyers

The real estate market during the past five years was certainly scary, especially for younger and less experienced home buyers. And so, a lot of people in the Gen X and Gen…

Can’t Sell Your Home? Bury a Saint

Don’t look now, but St. Joseph might be buried in your backyard. Not the saint, of course, but a statue of him. Through the years, St. Joseph has become the patron saint…
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5 Types of People Who Attend Open Houses

In real estate showings, the Sunday open house is the gold standard. As the name implies, a property is open to just about anyone who learns of the showing in an online…