Preparing Your Home for a Summer Vacation: A Comprehensive Guide
Summer vacations are a time to relax, unwind, and create lasting memories with family and friends. However, before you embark on your well-deserved getaway, it's crucial to prepare your home for your absence. Taking a few simple steps to secure and maintain your home...
The Benefits of Homeownership: Why Owning a Home Is Better Than Renting
When it comes to choosing a place to live, the decision between owning a home and renting is a pivotal one. While renting provides flexibility and short-term convenience, owning a home provides a multitude of advantages over renting, offering long-term...
Land Survey vs. Plot Plan: What Home Buyers Need to Know
When you're buying a home, there are a lot of terms and documents that can be confusing. Two of the most common are "plot plan" and "land survey." What's the difference between the two, and which one do you need? The following is a basic overview of a land...
Yes, you need a home inspection.
Avoiding a Big Mistake and Still Being A Competitive Buyer One really big mistake the house hunters are being talked into is waiving your home inspection. Why do you need an inspection? If you hire an experienced exclusive buyer's agent, you have the backing of...
Dealing with a Low Home Appraisal
There is no getting around it: when you purchase a home using a mortgage, you need an appraisal. A home appraisal not only protects the bank from lending out more money than a home is worth, but it also protects the buyer from paying too much for a house. No matter...
Should I Wait for a Market Crash to Purchase My Home?
After more than six years of steady home price increases, recent data shows the real estate market is slowing. If this is the start of the next housing crash, it is human nature to doubt your purchase, thinking you could have paid much less. With the previous...
How Can I Compete When I’m Financing the Deal and Don’t Have Lots of Cash?
Nothing talks quite like money in real estate. The ability to put down an all-cash offer on a home immediately puts you ahead of those offers who are relying on financing. Why? Because it cuts out the time and hassle of the mortgage approval process. For those who...
This is a primary question and should also be coupled with two more questions; What should I afford and what can I not afford. In 2008 our nation experienced a devastating economic collapse which included our housing market. Much of this was blamed on the lending...
Since 2006 foreclosures have become a significant part of the everyday real estate transaction, not just because someone may or may not have bought one, but the presence of so many drove down the prices of the homes that were not foreclosed on as a matter of...
Changing Homes? Moving Up? Downsizing?
As your life changes, your home needs change. Starting a family,relocating for a new job, children leaving home and retirement can alter your lifestyle and your home requirements. In each situation, you have unique needs, a distinct goal, a budget, anda timeline....
BOOMERS LEAD IN SECOND HOME PURCHASES COAST TO COAST
NAEBA agents witness Boomer clientele on the rise in 2010 AVONDALE, AZ, March 1, 2010 - The Baby Boomer Generation, the vanguard of economic and social trends since the 1950s when their swelling numbers forced a drastic increase in public school building, are now the...
Buyers Only Real Estate Association Warns a Picture May Not Be Worth 1000 Words
National Association of Exclusive Buyer Agents (NAEBA) explains the good, bad and ugly of online real estate photos AVONDALE, AZ September 20, 2010 – Real estate images can be misleading, warns the National Association of Exclusive Buyer Agents (NAEBA). Home staging...