The Best Service

Buying a home is one of the biggest decisions that most people make in their life. When looking to buy a home there are things that should be considered in choosing your real estate agent. The real estate agent you choose should be experienced with a proven track record. Your real estate agent should be willing to listen to your needs.

Look at your real estate agent’s track record of success to get a good idea of what kind of business they have been doing. If you are looking for the unusual home see if that is something they will be able assist you with or if they have know someone that can assist you both that specializes in those types of homes…[more Realtor]

Pets and Potential Buyers ~ Without A Trace

Entering a home for a showing and being confronted by a set of barking dogs is enough to make some potential buyers not enter the home at all. Similarly, the sight of a clump of cat hair on the sofa can sour some potential buyers as they try to envision themselves in your property. They won’t think you are a bad person or a bad pet owner, but they will come away from a real estate showing with a bad taste in their mouth due in large part to your pet’s effect.

Your job is to remove any trace of your pet’s stay in the home, starting with the clutter that can sometimes come from pet toys and food dishes. A cage is fine and a tidy area where a pet spends most of his or her time will not harm a showing, but having a stray dog bone here and a messy food dish there can distract a buyer from the beautiful breakfast nook you keep or the immaculate counter top you just cleaned. Home stagers recommend not letting your pet become a part of the home evaluation equation.

Getting Through Real Estate Closing Without Any Problems

House hunting is by itself a rather stressful process. The need to close the contract only adds on to the stress. You could as well do with a few tips and some information to control the frustration involved.

The settlement process, also called “closing”, begins once you have signed the contract to buy a house. “Closing of escrow” is the process whereby the title of ownership moves from the seller to the buyer. There are a few things you need before that.

Firstly you need to secure financing, which means you need to avail a mortgage loan. You will have to furnish some financial details to the lender. This may include among others, a credit report, property survey, proof of income, current expenses, current appraisal and in certain cases, even an inspection to check for termites or radon gas, etc. It will most probably be approved within a few days thanks to the competition among lenders…[more Real Estate Closing]

Resources you may consider for real estate closing information: Closing Fee Free Deal | Agent Pulling Weight | Earnest Money | The Best Service

Fixer Upper Option

Renovating homes has gotten a boat load of publicity over the past few years as a great way for prospective real estate investorsto make great money over a short period of time. Hopefully, you’ve taken that message with a grain of salt as renovations can often take a lengthy period of time and selling the home for a big profit is never a guarantee.

In fact, as any real estate investor will tell you, a few quick calculations will give you at least a rough idea of your chances for profit, be it large or small. Doing these quick and dirty calculations will not only give you that forecast of the future but determine whether a particular investment is worth the hassle, a step that many real estate investors skip that deserves adequate attention…[more Fixer Upper]

Related Resource for Fixing Upping: Fix Your Fixer Upper | Cheap Homes Are Cheap | Short Sale Makes Sense | The Perfect Roof | Lease Option Option | Listing FSBO Via MLS | Home Repair Projects

Importance of Being Earnest (Money)

Every real estate transaction has a series of steps along the process to get buyer and seller together for a successful purchase. Articles have and will be written about each of these little steps along the way and earnest money is one of those steps that can seem like a strange practice to go through but makes sense when explained.

Made as a kind of good faith payment made by an interested buyer, earnest money is another of the small steps along the real estate process that deserves to be explored. While no real estate transaction is exactly like another, generally earnest money comes in as part of the process when an interested buyer signs over an amount of money (often in the neighborhood of $500 or $1000) to more or less express that they are serious about buying the home…[more Real Estate Earnest Money]

Related resources for purchase offer fundamentals: Deal in Details | Home Buying Process | Home Buying Cycle | Home Buying Considerations | Purchase Offer Basics | Offer Price Influences | The Agent Derivative