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Home Buying and Selling Real Estate Home Buying and Selling Real Estate Straight advice you won't find anywhere else for buyers, sellers and agents. Elizabeth Weintraub, a real estate veteran of 33 years and Sacramento Broker-Associate, writes this site for The New York Times. Articles
Staging Tips for the Living Room
2008-03-31 07:00:00 Since the living room is often the first room a buyer sees, it makes sense to put time, money and effort into staging the living room. Although, in actuality, if a... More About: Living , Living Room , Tips , Room , Staging
Types of Real Estate Agents
2008-03-28 06:00:00 Agents give themselves so many different titles that it's often hard to figure out the various types of real estate agents and into which classification they fall. At my company, for... More About: Estate , Real Estate , Agents , Real , Types
Picking a Price Range to Buy a Home
2008-03-26 06:00:00 Common sense and picking home price ranges don't always go hand in hand. Rarely do buyers pick the right price ranges, much less the right price, from inception. And listing... More About: Home , Price , Range , Picking
Dealing With Two Loans on a Short Sale
2008-03-24 06:00:00 Most short sale transactions these days involve two short sale loans. Back in the early 1990s, home buyers financed the purchase of a new home by coughing up a down... More About: Loans , Sale , Short
How to Find Short Sales
2008-03-20 06:00:00 Sometimes buyers are finding short sales, even when they don't want to find them. That's because not all short sales are clearly advertised as such. There is hidden jargon in the... More About: Sales , Find , Short
Urban Real Estate Trends for 2008
2008-03-19 06:00:00 Major cities are where most real estate trends begin, and urban real estate trends are changing the face of the market. You can drive out to any suburb and look at... More About: Estate , Real Estate , Trends , Urban , Real
How Much Home Can I Afford?
2008-03-17 06:00:00 Picking sales prices is tricky, but figuring out the answer to how much home can I afford is even more difficult. Most buyers tend to lean toward elaborate homes while shunning... More About: Home
What is a Transfer Disclosure Statement?
2008-03-14 06:00:00 California Civil Code mandates that all residential sellers give home buyers a transfer disclosure statement. I'm willing to bet that more lawsuits in California are filed over a seller's transfer disclosure... More About: Transfer , Disclosure , Statement
What Does Motivated Seller Mean?
2008-03-12 06:00:00 When you read the term: "motivated sellers," if you're like most buyers, you probably think those sellers are desperate, right? The sellers might be desperate to sell. Much depends on the... More About: Seller
Why Days on Market Matter to Home Buyers
2008-03-10 06:00:00 One of the first questions buyers ask me when I hold open a home is its days on market. Buyers figure the longer a home has been on the market, the... More About: Market , Home Buyers , Home , Matter , Days
How Seller Rent Backs After Closing are Handled
2008-03-07 06:00:00 When sellers can't move out at closing, it's common to execute a seller rent back agreement between the buyer and seller. Sometimes no agreement is executed at all, and buyers just... More About: Seller , Rent
Buyers Are Entitled to Home Disclosures
2008-03-05 06:00:00 Most states require that sellers give buyers home disclosures before the buyer fully commits to buying the home. California laws, in particular, protect buyers. For example, sellers are required to inform... More About: Home , Buyers
Foreclosure Rescue Fraud Victimizes Distressed Sellers
2008-03-03 06:00:00 When sellers default on a mortgage, that information becomes public record, which means home owners can become sitting ducks for foreclosure rescue fraud. Since information about home owners who are in... More About: Fraud , Foreclosure , Rescue , Sellers
The Significance of Counter Offers
2008-02-29 06:00:00 In declining or slowing real estate markets, even though sellers are thrilled to receive a purchase offer, many sellers are not satisfied with the terms and will issue counter offers. The... More About: Offers , Counter , Significance
About Full-Service Real Estate Agents
2008-02-27 06:00:00 You hear a lot in the news about "discount" real estate agents and "cash-back-to-buyer" programs, which are constantly trying to push their way through the cracks to find a niche,... More About: Estate , Real Estate , Agents , Service , Real
Why Short Sales Are No Bargain
2008-02-25 06:00:00 For the past 18 months, the hottest buzz in real estate has been about short sales, and real estate agents have been pushing buyers to buy short sales. Now,... More About: Sales , Bargain , Short
Tips for Writing Purchase Offers
2008-02-22 07:30:00 First-time home buyers, veteran house hunters, lawyers and plenty of real estate agents make mistakes when writing purchase offers. Mistakes are not only costly, but they can delay offer acceptance because... More About: Writing , Tips , Offers , Purchase
Protecting Privacy When Selling
2008-02-20 06:00:00 You might think your secrets are safe when you put your home on the market, but you also may be surprised to learn why you need to make an extra... More About: Selling , Privacy
Walking Away From Closing
2008-02-18 06:00:00 You will often hear about buyers walking away from closing, more so than sellers, but that doesn't mean sellers don't sometimes change their minds. Many years ago, when I bought one... More About: Walking
Getting Your Free Credit Reports
2008-02-15 06:00:00 Before getting serious about shopping for a new home, it's a good idea to get a copy of your free credit report. Like an annual check-up at your doctor, smart consumers... More About: Credit , Free
How to Negotiate Real Estate Commissions
2008-02-13 06:00:00 Real estate commissions are negotiable. But what does that mean, exactly, to negotiate real estate commissions? How can you ask an agent to charge less, to reduce her fee? And why... More About: Estate , Real Estate , Commissions , Real
The Meaning of Location, Location, Location
2008-02-11 06:00:00 I've seen buyers get so excited over the updates in a home that they forget about the first rule of real estate: location, location, location. Generally, buyers will... More About: Meaning , Location
Reasons for Attic Inspections
2008-02-08 06:00:00 Undiscovered horrors could lurk in the attic if home buyers neglect to conduct an attic inspection. The damage in this photo was caused by a family of squirrels that had... More About: Reasons
Before Selling Your Home
2008-02-06 06:00:00 Before getting ready to sell your home, before you even consider putting your home on the market, here are five essential steps you should take to be fully prepared to... More About: Selling , Home
Protecting Pets During Power Outages
2008-02-04 06:00:00 Most people don't think about pets and power outages until they're in the middle of a power outage. The thing is you don't normally know how long a power outage will... More About: Power , Pets , Ages
How to Retire Rich From Real Estate
2008-02-02 00:42:00 If you've ever thought about how to Retire Rich From Real Estate , then this book is for you. Written by Marc W. Andersen, an investor with more than 20 years of... More About: Real Estate
Ways to Stop Foreclosure
2008-01-30 06:00:00 The best time to think about how to stop foreclosure is before your home goes into foreclosure. But not all home owners realize that foreclosure is pending when they miss making... More About: Foreclosure , Stop
How to Safely Release Contingencies
2008-01-28 06:00:00 When you write contingencies into a purchase contract, typically you will find standard verbiage on how to release contingencies. Back in the old days, like when Pat Benatar hit the Top... More About: Release
Types of Contract Contingencies
2008-01-25 06:00:00 Before writing an offer to purchase, for your own protection, make sure the offer contains contract contingencies. Be aware that sellers can ask for contingencies, too. It's the contingencies in the... More About: Contract , Types
Buying During a Housing Recession
More articles from this author:2008-01-23 06:00:00 Monday's worldwide stock plunge may signal, some experts say, that we are heading into a full-blown recession, triggered by the staggering U.S. housing recession. Others say we have been in... More About: Buying , Housing , Recession 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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