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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
Home Selling Path: From Listing to Closing
2008-01-21 06:00:00 To give home sellers an overview picture, I've put together 15 steps in a sample home selling path. I think it's appropriate for sellers to see what they're getting into when... More About: Selling , Home , Listing , Path
Preparing for Power Outages: Survival Tips
2008-01-18 06:00:00 Few of us like to think about disaster striking or preparing for power outages. Yet, power can go out at any time, especially if you live in a populated area such... More About: Power , Tips , Survival , Prep , Viva
Home Repairs that Payoff When Selling
2008-01-16 06:00:00 Every smart home owner knows that making repairs before selling will improve the chances of selling at a higher sales price. Bathrooms and kitchens are the top home improvements that will... More About: Selling , Home
Foreclosure Pets are Silent Victims of Down Markets
2008-01-14 06:00:00 In many households across the country, pets -- who once slept in beds with their families and knew the joy of full bellies -- have been abandoned during foreclosures. People... More About: Pets , Markets , Foreclosure , Silent , Victims
Builder Incentives and Seller Concessions
2008-01-11 06:00:00 Everywhere you look these days, you're likely to see a number of advertising offers geared toward first-time home buyers that dangle builder incentives or seller concessions in front of your... More About: Seller , Incentives , Builder
How Foreclosures Work
2008-01-09 06:00:00 Foreclosure proceedings vary from state to state, but the basic principles behind how foreclosures work are similar, depending on whether your state is a mortgage state or a trust deed... More About: Foreclosures , Work
Safety Tips for Women Home Buyers
2008-01-07 06:00:00 Security and safety rank high on the list of concerns of many single women home buyers. One late night, many years ago, a man followed me home. I had gone to... More About: Women , For Women , Safety , Home Buyers , Tips
Why Agents Take Overpriced Listings
2008-01-04 06:00:00 Overpriced listings can be good for agents but bad for sellers. Ever drive by a home for sale and wonder what was going through the minds of the sellers when they... More About: Agents , Listings
Agents Who Kickback Commission Credits to Home Buyers
2008-01-02 06:00:00 A potential home buyer called me last year about one of my listings. The first thing she asked was whether I credit commissions to buyers. In actuality, there are a handful... More About: Home Buyers , Agents , Home , Commission , Buyers
Home Buying Path
2007-12-31 06:00:00 The home buying path is pretty simple and straight forward, but I probably think that way because I'm so accustomed to working with home buyers that it's ingrained in my... More About: Buying , Home , Path
About "Buying Houses for Cash" Companies
2007-12-28 06:00:00 Lately, those we buy houses for cash signs are plastered everywhere -- on billboards, direct mail flyers, newspapers, online and, sometimes, you will see them tied around telephone poles or... More About: Companies , Buying , Houses , Cash
Doing the Final Walk-Through
2007-12-26 06:00:00 The final home inspection or final walk-through is easily a confusing situation for many home buyers. Some think it's a time to renegotiate with the seller (it's not); others have no... More About: Final , Walk
Home Staging: Dressing the House
2007-12-24 06:00:00 Home staging is nothing new; many sellers for years have been advised by their real estate agents to Stage® their homes, and it's extremely popular in major metropolitan areas... More About: House , Home , The House , Staging , Dressing
House Marketing Mistakes
2007-12-21 06:00:00 When real estate times are good, even agents who make outlandishly awful house marketing mistakes are likely to produce a sale. In buyer's markets, though, as inventory rises, it's essential for... More About: Marketing , House , Stakes , Mista
Buying Foreclosure REOs: Bank-Owned Homes
2007-12-19 06:00:00 One of the very best ways to get a good deal in real estate is to concentrate on buying foreclosure REOs. Forget about chasing down short sales and dealing with lenders... More About: Buying , Foreclosure , Homes , Owned , Bank
What You Don't Know About Mortgage Fraud
2007-12-17 06:00:00 With the recent tightening of lending guidelines, more and more scammers are in the marketplace perpetrating mortgage fraud. Oh, they won't tell you they are a scammer. In fact, many of... More About: Fraud , Mortgage Fraud , Mortgage , Mort
Book Review of Real Estate Agent's Guide to FSBOs
2007-12-14 06:00:00 Real estate agents who want to list your home for sale -- because you have it listed for sale by owner -- are the target audience for John Maloof's The... More About: Estate , Real Estate , Book Review , Review , Book
How to Find Foreclosures
2007-12-12 06:00:00 Because of the subprime mess and all the publicity surrounding foreclosures, I get a ton of inquires asking how buyers can go about finding foreclosures. Some of the inquires are about... More About: Foreclosures , Find
Qualifying for Short Sales Can Be Complicated
2007-12-10 06:00:00 Not all home sellers qualify for short sales. Without even understanding what a short sale is, some home sellers want to hop on that bandwagon because they've heard the phrase. They... More About: Sales , Qualifying , Short , Complicated
Alternatives to Selling Your Home: When Your Home Won't Sell, No Matter Wha
2007-12-07 06:00:00 If you've tried selling your home and it just won't sell, why not consider alternatives to home selling? When you've tried everything under the sun to sell that home, even burying... More About: Selling , Home , Matter , Sell , Alternatives
Top 10 Gifts for Home Buyers
2007-12-05 06:00:00 If you're wondering about finding perfect holiday gifts for home buyers on your shopping list, look no further. Although many of these gifts are suitable as a first-time home buyer or... More About: Gifts , Home Buyers , Home , Buyers
Unique Homes in Land Park, Sacramento
2007-12-03 06:00:00 Whenever I travel, I always shoot photographs of unique homes but for some reason, I have neglected to include a showcase of unique Land Park homes, which are right under... More About: Homes , Unique , Sacramento
Choosing Ad Words for Advertising Your Home
2007-11-30 06:00:00 Before you put an ad in the newspaper to sell your home or post an online listing, stop to think about the advertising words you choose. Choosing the wrong ad... More About: Advertising , Home , Words , Vert
Stripping Assets From Homes in Foreclosure
2007-11-28 06:00:00 A seldom-discussed issue concerning homes that are in foreclosure is the rising practice of stripping foreclosure houses. Many home owners do not understand what constitutes a fixture in the home and,... More About: Foreclosure , Homes , Stripping
Reasons to Hire Neighborhood Specialists
2007-11-26 06:00:00 With the explosion of real estate Web sites and blogs over the past few years, it's becoming increasingly hard to figure out on the Internet who is a neighborhood specialist,... More About: Hire , Reasons , Neighborhood
What is a Deed of Trust?
2007-11-23 06:00:00 It's a rare person who invests time to actually read a deed of trust. Most borrowers just sign their loan documents without reading them. They know if they don't sign, they... More About: Trust
10 Reasons to Hire a Real Estate Agent
2007-11-21 06:00:00 As the real estate business continues to build a presence online, many buyers and sellers wonder whether they should hire a real estate agent. Consumers wonder, and rightly so, what a... More About: Hire , Agent , A Real Estate , Estate , Real Estate
Top 10 2008 Real Estate Predictions
2007-11-19 06:00:00 Last year at this time, I forecast my top 10 real estate predictions for 2007. Without tooting my own horn too much, I can report that almost every prediction came true.... More About: Estate , Real Estate , Predictions , Real , 2008
Green Washing: Green Home Advertising
2007-11-16 06:00:00 Green washing is a term I had not heard before, not until David Syring of Listed Green brought it to my attention. Yet, now that I know what it is, I... More About: Advertising , Home , Green , Washing , Vert
Single Women Are Buying Homes in Record Numbers
More articles from this author:2007-11-14 06:00:00 Women are not holding out for marriage before buying their first home. Today, single women buy homes for the same reasons as anybody else. Sadly, still women earn considerably less than... More About: Women , Buying , Homes , Numbers , Single 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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