Buying a Rural Property – First Steps
Perhaps for years you’ve dreamt of owning a place in the country – maybe a small ranch in Colorado, or a private lakefront lot in Minnesota, or maybe your own ski chalet in the Rocky Mountains. Today’s low real estate prices combined with great interest rates are making it possible for more people to realize this dream. Before you get out your checkbook, here are some things to consider before taking the plunge.
Friends Don’t Let Realtors Design Crappy MySpace Pages.
If you’re a realtor who has a MySpace page to make contacts and generate leads, good for you! You’re joining a growing number of business people who are using this to connect with colleagues and potential clients. MySpace, along with Facebook and other social networking sites, has a fast-growing adult demographic that uses the networking capabilities for business as well as for keeping track of friends.
Home Staging: 7 Tips for the Hopeful
Home staging is creating a fantasy world for prospective buyers. You want people to come into your house and be able to imagine how the house would look if it were theirs. To do this, you have to remove your personality from the house so that it’s easier for a purchaser to see themselves living in your house. Sometimes it’s hard, but when you talk in dollars, you can make thousands more and sell your home sooner. With these 7 tips, you can make your home look even more attractive to buyers.
Unreal Estate: 10 horror films with demonic dwellings and un-family-friendly locations
1. Nosferatu (1922)
What’s in a Name? The word REALTOR® and You
On July 17, 1947, The National Association of Real Estate Boards applied to the United States Patent Office to register REALTOR as a trademark. The date claimed for first usage was March 31, 1916. It first came into common parlance with an utterance by a witness at a subcommittee hearing in 1919. Three years later, Sinclair Lewis used it in his novel, “Babbitt”. The word appeared in dictionaries in 1917.
Build Relationships and Leads Will Follow
Starting out in the real estate business (or any business for that matter) can be a little anxiety inspiring. The initial stage of getting off the ground is always a challenge. There are plenty of ideas out there on how to get new business, but one of the best ways to build your business is by building on the relationships with your current clients. If you offer outstanding service and do the job right, you will get the referrals. Word of mouth is still one of the best marketing tools a business can ask for.
The “REAL” Real Estate Roller Coaster
Buying a home is a process fraught with emotional ups and downs. For most people, it’ll will be the most expensive and involved purchase they ever make. On top of the indisputable importance of this purchase, is the indisputable lack of time one has to make a decision before purchasing a home. The average amount of time a potential homebuyer spends looking at a prospective home is 96 minutes! For a home that you may spend the next ten to twenty years living in, well, an hour and a half seems like an un-justly short amount of time to make such a drastic decision. This “hot” decision making environment, where the pressure is on, is one of the key aspects of buyer’s emotional stress. But, the fact is, good homes sell fast, and buyers have to be ready to commit to a purchase in a short time. This being said, the “sure fire” way to make a good decision in a such a short period of time, is to learn to become a smart, analytical shopper. Not that emotions need to go entirely by the way side- but you must know when emotions are playing into your decision making process, what is at the core of those emotions and whether or not they are helpful to your process. Be your psychologist, and the sooner you’ll get off the doctor’s couch and into a new home!
The Ins And Outs of Buying and Selling
While buying and selling real estate can be exciting, it is also very challenging, and can be stressful at times. Because of the conflict created by both the buyer and seller and trying to get the most out of a real estate deal, negotiations can drag on and closings can be delayed. But a win/win situation is possible.
Tips For a Quick Home Sale
For a quick sale, you need to make your home look better than the competition. When I look through pictures of real estate online, I see so many pictures of messy rooms. People haven’t taken the time to even tidy up a little before they or their agent take the photos that will be any buyers first impression. So often in these photos, the tv’s are on and there are cans of pop on the coffee table. This looks so ugly! So I think the easiest way to make your home look better than most is to simply clean it up.
Is Bulgaria the Best Property Investment in Europe?
A couple of decades ago, French property was the top choice for people investing their money; old farmhouses, rustic mountain chalets and slick inner-city pads could be picked up for a reasonable price and the market was growing. As the prices rose, the opportunities for buying low and selling high became fewer and further between, and investors began looking to Spain where the boom in package holidays to the Mediterranean coast meant apartments were being built everywhere and rental potential was high.
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