Chris Webster's (myrtlebeachpropertyguy) Blog

Some home builders are including in their contracts a 1% fee to be paid to them every time the house is sold  for up to 99 years.  The money is nothing more than profit for the builder and is not used for up keep or any type of property improvements.  Lenders are getting keen to this and reviewin...

I participated in a Brokers Tour this week to show off my listing, which is a fabulous renovated cape.  My client purchased the bank-owned property, fixed all the plumbing and electrical issues,  totally remodeled the kitchen and two full bathrooms, repainted, landscaped, and tended to all the de...

(The other day I promised to do a little series on applying Go-Giver principles to real estate - while this blog wasn't written with that in mind, I realize that it DOES indeed reflect a Go-Giver philosophy! So, let's consider this the first in that series, k?) I was just talking to an agent who ...

This morning, an associate quit the real estate business after trying it for a few years.  "Market is bad - I have no work."  The more we talked, the more I heard her blame everyone and everything for her failure and how it's the bank's fault that she is now going to lose her home. But what has s...

  Pain au Chocolat All of the fundamentals skills and character traits of luxury real estate marketing professionals including negotiating skills, honesty, integrity, expert transaction engineering, and even local market knowledge are not enough to sharply differentiate one agent from the next. Y...

Yesterday while showing homes in two subdivisions side by side with high vacancy rates and boarded up homes, it appears there was another recent rash of A/C units stolen for the copper. The units were gutted and the copper was stripped all the way to the home.  We meandered into neighboring vacan...

Yesterday while showing homes in two subdivisions side by side with high vacancy rates and boarded up homes, it appears there was another recent rash of A/C units stolen for the copper. The units were gutted and the copper was stripped all the way to the home.  We meandered into neighboring vacan...

I'm curious as to how many times an agent has received a contract for an "as is" listing and soon after the home inspection, the buyer's agent sends over a list of 30+ requested repairs including, but not limited to, cosmetic repairs and minor repairs? I have sold numerous homes "as is" and it wa...

Yuck, yuck, yuck.  Bed bugs, once thought to be the sole province of dirty, low rent hotels are back - with a vengeance.  Almost totally eradicated after WWII with the use of DDT (now banned because of it's toxicity), the increase in international travel is thought to be one factor in the increas...

Is This Discrimination, or a Disclosure Issue?   Carol Culkin wrote a great post regarding Title VIII of the Civil Rights Act which prevents discrimination in the Sale, Rental and Financing of dwellings. The situation Carol describes is this: Carol has a lower floor condo listing A buyers agent w...