Monthly Archives: March 2016
Who Doesn’t Want to be a Mythbuster
What is your am usually looking up real estate trends and articles that deal with the actual numbers when it comes to home sales in the local market. I wanted to go a different route for my blog today. I came across an interesting article that is about “amazing facts in Real Estate.” I know that we can’t believe everything we read on the …
Flat Fees Mean Flat Sales
Are Flat Fee Real Estate Companies the way to go? I will tell you no way and here are some reasons why. A flat fee company is only as good as the agent you have working for you. In many cases these agents are capable and diligent but have way to large of a workload. The majority of the work is left up to …
Real Estate Smoke Signals
If all the dire warnings about your health haven’t motivated you to quit smoking, perhaps a reality check about the likelihood of selling your home while it smells of cigarettes will do the trick. People in the Real Estate industry might want to take a longer, harder look at the buying and selling of smokers’ homes. We all know that the foul smell of …
And You Thought Your Job Was Dangerous
You may not think about it often, but being an agent can be dangerous. Hosting open houses, going on listing appointments and visiting vacant properties are routine duties for a real estate professional. Real estate agents are targeted because they are crimes of opportunity. Agents usually work alone in all of these situations. Bad people target real estate professionals because know they carry a …
Buyers Need Some Serious Advice!
Your mom and dad finally win, you are going to buy your own home. When doing so, having a better understanding of the process and making sure you have a qualified professional agent by your side will help you navigate your first purchase. Here are some steps or tips to help. It is a process but this is simplified. Get pre-approved, which is a …
Keeping yourself safe from those high tech burglars
When dealing with real estate, the issue of home protection is always in someone’s mind. When buying home, you may want to start thinking about which system, if any, you would like to use to protect your home. Burglaries, fires, carbon monoxide, and other detection issues can save lives. It isn’t wrong to not have these things, it just depends on you and your …
Jobs and Real Estate in the Inland Empire
Real Estate in the Inland Empire has been making news for a while. It is because we have a very unique market in relation to the rest of Southern California. Rentals, investor flips, and owner occupied property are accessible to almost anyone. The same story does not ring true in almost every other part of California. On January 7th, Forbes.com, pointed out that Riverside, …
Cant Build Up Go Underground
There is a crazy new trend emerging in London real estate. It is something that has been done for a really long time all over the world but is very scarce. So many people think the bigger a house is the better, right? Well how do we measure how big a house is without knowing the square footage? It’s simple, we see it! We …
Here is When You Know You’re About to Make Criti...
If rent is too cheap, it is most likely too good to be true. There is always a reason that someone would be asking a lot less than they can possibly ask for a rental. The property most likely needs a lot of hidden repairs. Ask yourself honestly, if you were to own a place and wish to rent it out, why wouldn’t you …
Why is Real Estate So Important to our National Econom...
Explained simply, if you have listened to the news, read the newspaper, or looked online, then you must’ve heard at least one report about recent real estate sales. Have you ever wondered why one segment of our economy is given so much attention? Have you ever asked yourself if the real estate market is as important as the media seems to think it is …