We sometimes take our health for granted but showings could be hazardous to your health. We show so many vacant homes these days with foreclosures and short sales the owners and former owners are gone.Imagine your surprise to enter a vacant property only to meet thieves taking the coper pipes f
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02/28/2008
Selling and Curb appealDid you know that most people start their home search on the Internet,of course you did, you are here. The number is over 80% of buyers start their initial home search on the Internet. So just like having a good presentation of your home on a website and MLS listing servi
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02/20/2008
How many times have you offered your advice to buyers and sellers only to have them do something completely different?I had a seller ask me to help them sell. I gave them the correct advice based on the market and they ignored my advice and came up with a price based on friends comments! (We us
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02/19/2008
Disclosures are a legal requirement yet they are treated as though they have little to do with the selling process.I had a seller as me if the disclosures were like the military..."Don't Ask Don't Tell"? NO that is not quite how this works.So when filling out disclosure do you really have to tel
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02/18/2008
Want a HUD or Foreclosed Property? Looking for a great deal in Kent County? Bargains are out there...so are some very big pitfalls. Deals are just waiting for buyers to take advantage of them. Then again you should only venture into these shark infested waters of "Deals" if you have someone on
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02/18/2008
I met someone over the weekend that asked, why anyone would want to be a Realtor?My immediate response was surprise...which was follow-up with a question...."Why do you say that?" The person questioning the professional standards and practices of Realtors...says. Realtor's have a terrible reput
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02/17/2008
Deleting posts made to others blogs.The owner of blogs delete comments for a variety of reasons. Sometimes it as simple as they are offensive to the blog host. If that is the case they probably should not have been posted in the first place. At least in the format that could be seen as offensiv
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02/17/2008
It seems that this winter is not as mild as I have seen in the past. I know we are due when the years roll by and we don't have the snow quite a deep or often.I know we should be thankful...no one has slide in the ditch, crashed a car or been stuck to the point of having a tow truck required. I
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02/16/2008
We all have life experiences that differ from each other just like homes.Track homes can look the same from the outside but as soon as you step in the door they have their own character and nuances. As soon as someone buys a home they start putting their own character into the home. Once people
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02/16/2008
The new word for lower home values...."Declining Market" Designation. We know that credit has been changing....well not long ago Kent County was designated as a "declining market". We can say all the words of wisdom and denial we want about the market but the truth is you need more that a sign i
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02/12/2008
