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What Makes a Good Realtor? 8 Skills Every Realtor Needs to Win Clients and Sell Houses
Even in this digital age, around 90% of home buyers use realtors to facilitate their purchase. With 1 in 9 people going through an agent, real estate is a great market to be in. But there’s a difference between what makes a good realtor, and someone who just considers their job a means to an e...
9 Staging Techniques For First Time Home Sellers
More than 6 million homes are bought and sold in the US every year. For first time home sellers, helping your home stand out from the crowd can be intimidating. Mastering the staging of a home will help buyers see the house as a potential home, hide the home’s weak points, and ultimately sell ...
Insta Curb Appeal: 4 Exterior House Design Ideas That’ll Boost Your Home’s Value
How likely are you to make an offer on an ugly house? Few serious buyers will splash out on a house that lacks curb appeal. In fact, a recent study shows that an attractive exterior house design can affect the price of your home by as much as 7.7%. So, what can you do right now to increas...
Show Your Appreciation! 8 Real Estate Closing Gifts Your Clients Will Love
The deal’s done. Just one thing left to do. Say, “Thank you,” of course. You’d like to give a gift to your clients. It’s a kind thing to do. It’s also good for marketing and drumming up recommendations. What on earth do you buy? Well, remember home is where ...
7 Tips for How to Get Rid of a House That Won’t Sell
While it takes an average of two months to sell a house, there are many homes that sit on the market for much longer waiting for a buyer. If you’re pulling your hair out trying to figure out how to get rid of a house that won’t sell, you need to try some new tactics. With the right appro...
Pump Up Your Profits: How to Make Money as a Real Estate Agent
Are you a real estate professional looking to better your business? Today, there are greater than 2 million active real estate agents in America. While buyers and sellers certainly have their pick for representation, this makes for increased competition between real estate professionals.&...
7 Brilliant Home Staging Ideas to Make Your Open House a Success
Are you currently in the middle of trying to sell your home? Are you trying to get the process over with as quickly and painlessly as possible? If you want to sell your home more quickly, you might need to put some more work in before you start showing it off to potential buyers. By taking the time ...
Selling Solar: 12 Insider Tips On Selling A House With Solar Panels
Why’d you put those things on your roof? No one is looking for a house with solar panels–at least not on purpose. You’ll never sell that house! Don’t believe a word from that group of naysayers. There are plenty of people looking for homes with green technology, including sol...
Sell Your Home Fast: 8 Surprising Home Buyer Incentives for Sellers
When selling a home, sometimes you want to get it off the market as quickly as possible. If speed is what you’re looking for with a sale, you need to throw in some home buyer incentives that will intrigue the buyer. In doing this, you’ll most likely get your wish, and will get...
Selling a Vision: Tips for Staging a Home
If you are planning to sell your home, 2019 is your year. About 20% of Americans say they wish to purchase a home this year, with numbers expected to wildly swing in future years. So for those who want to sell – with or without a realtor – time is of the essence. If...
10 Proven Tips to Get Your House Ready for a Quick Sell
Houses sell pretty quickly these days. In fact, the average list-to-sale time for a house is just 64 days. Do you want to sell your house even faster than this, though? If you want to speed up the sale of your house, you’ll likely need to be strategic about how you market it and what you do to...
Up Your Curb Appeal: 5 Trendy Landscaping Designs to Try in 2019
If you think investing in your landscaping designs in 2019 to increase curb appeal is a solid move you couldn’t be more right. Landscaping trends are proven to increase the value of your home. In some cases, the right projects can bring as much as a 1000 percent return. ...