Straight from the NAR, or National Association of Realtors, here are the statistics for how home buyers are finding their homes. A combined 81% of homes are found from the Internet or real estate agent- and real estate agents find homes almost exclusively online. Why is this important? Because it shows that almost all homes
What’s the Best Day to List your Home for Sale? WEDNESDAY!! I always list my homes on Wednesdays. Why? Looky-loos, those shoppers that haven’t yet been qualified or who are just beginning to browse will look for homes over the weekend, when they have the most time. They’re just casual buyers. Serious, motivated buyers- those
Why do you want a Realtor when building a new home? I’ll tell you five reasons! 1-Representation2-Issues3-Pros and Cons4-Upgrades5-Contracts Representation.The builder’s agent works for the builder and your agent works for you. The builder’s agent will get their next 20 transactions- basically their entire year’s work- from the builder, so if issues happen, they will
Did you know that buying and selling real estate has been slated as the number 3 most stressful event in life, after death and divorce? Often times, having to buy and sell a home at the same time is DUE to death or divorce. Let me give you five tips in a specific order to
Once you have made an offer on your future home and that offer has been accepted by the seller, you’ll have a period called ‘due diligence’. During the due diligence period, your job is basically to make sure you’re comfortable buying the home. This is when you’ll call in a home inspector and any other
If this is your first time buying a home, you may be surprised to find that your Realtor asks you to get pre-qualified just to look at homes. Why? Let’s pretend for a moment. Say you decide to buy a house. You go out one weekend to look at available homes and open houses. You discover
What is a Zillow Pre-Foreclosure? In Utah, if you get a notice of default, meaning you have missed a mortgage payment, that is made public record. As soon as a notice of default is sent in the mail, anyone can find it. Zillow goes through local county records to see who has gotten a notice
We all LOVE a good fixer-upper show and seeing a house go from junk to WOW in less than an hour… Well, it’s convinced more than a few of us to try our own hand at flipping homes. What exactly IS a flip? It’s when someone purchases an older, outdated home, updates it, then puts
We recently discussed here on our blog about how in our market, there are over 40% more homes available for sale than last year at this time- meaning that if you are selling your house, you want to STAND OUT from everyone else and get YOUR home sold! How can you do that? The one
Last year, about this time- it was chaos. If a house came onto the market, I’d drop everything to get my client in the house THAT DAY to be able to compete again several offers (sometimes 10-12 offers on a single house for some Realtors!) Right now, I have clients who are ready to look