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  • Home Improvement Ideas To Do Before Listing Your House

    While the amount of bedrooms and bathrooms in your home is important to a potential buyer, a lot of focus is put on the aesthetics of your house as well. It's why sellers focus on making improvements to the interior of their home before putting it up for sale. If you are planning on doing some renovations to make a home look more attractive to buyers, these tips will help you do it. [Read More]

  • Is It Possible To Keep Your Earnest Money?

    A common misconception about earnest money is that if the sale of a home does not go through, the buyer loses his or her money. Although that is true in some scenarios, it does not apply to all. If you are in the process of buying a home, it is important to understand when you can and cannot lose your earnest money.   When Can You Lose Earnest Money?  When you and the seller have a purchase contract, there are deadlines included for every aspect of the home buying process. [Read More]

  • 3 Features That Offer More Storage in a Luxury Home

    If you are interested in a luxury home, one of the greatest luxuries that you can have is space. If you are in the market for a luxury home, there are features that you can find that will offer you more storage space and the option to extend your living area. The more space you have in your home, the more options you have for purchasing and living. Here are three features to look for in a luxury home that you should look for if storage is something that you need. [Read More]

  • 3 Disclosures You Should Always Report When Selling A Home

    If you are planning to put your home up among other homes for sale soon, you need to understand the importance of disclosures. Some issues will be apparent, such as roofing issues or bad plumbing. However, there are additional items that you may not have known to disclose, including the following: Death In some states, you will be required to disclose if anyone died in the house. They may even have you state the type of death, particularly if it was a homicide or other violent demise. [Read More]

  • Shopping For A Home? 4 Cosmetic Problems You Should Always Ignore

    Everyone wants to walk into their future home and fall in love with it instantly. While love at first sight does happen in the world of real estate, it doesn't happen all the time. Many times, buyers have to see beyond cosmetic turnoffs and learn to envision what a home can be in order to find their dream home in their dream location without blowing their budget. So if you're looking to buy a home, strive to look past the tacky, dirty, and plain ugly. [Read More]

  • Looking At Homes For Sale As A New Parent: Four Things You Want To Look For And Pay Attention To

    If you are a new parent or if you are about to be a new parent, and you are looking at homes for sale, you have to look at each home you tour with a different set of eyes. Instead of looking at a property as a single person or married couple with no kids, you have to take your child or children into consideration.  That means you need to look for certain things in the house, yard, neighborhood and school closest to your possible new home. [Read More]

  • 4 Tips For First-Time Home Buyers

    If you are interested in purchasing your first home, there are plenty of things that you should consider. When you take into account all these different aspects of buying your first home, you can determine whether or not you are truly ready to make the purchase and what kind of homes you are able to look at so you don't get your hopes set too high. Here are four tips for first-time home buyers to consider: [Read More]

  • 3 Open House Mistakes To Avoid

    When you're trying to sell your home, an open house can be a powerful tool to hook potential buyers. However, if it doesn't go well, you could end up losing a large number of potential buyers all in one day, so it's important to make sure that everything runs smoothly on the big day. Take a look at some major open house mistakes that could prevent you from selling your house as quickly as you'd like. [Read More]

  • 2 Ways NFC Chip Technology Can Help Your Real Estate Agency Stay Competitive

    If you run a real estate agency, then you know how competitive your business is, and it is only getting more and more competitive as new agents are entering the market. Now that profits are being made in real estate again since the housing market has begun to recover after housing crash of '08, more and more new agents are becoming licensed. You need to keep up with industry technology to stay competitive, and one type of technology that can make your agency more successful is NFC chip technology. [Read More]

  • You Can Make Your Vacation Home Much Smarter

    When you own a vacation rental, the amount of money you are able to ultimately put in your pocket is usually what is left after your expenses are subtracted from your income. But managing these expenses is often difficult to do when you are not the one using the property on a daily basis. Luckily enough, technology has made this much easier to do with many of the smart features now available on the market. [Read More]