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When selling your house, it is important to have the potential home buyer visualize what it would be like to live in the home. Decorating for the holidays is one way to accomplish that goal. Fall has started, and everyone loves the Fall season. It is that relief from the hot summer months.Below are [Read More]

Since that may not be an option, here a few tips to building the greenest home you can build.Location, Location, LocationWhile looking for a place to build your home consider the neighborhood. How easy would it be to walk or bike into town? What are the recycling programs like in the neighborhood? A [Read More]

A first impression is that moment when you first meet someone, reach out, shake their hand and get a feel for who theyreally are. The handshake makes it tactile, real...tangible. It could be argued you close the deal at that moment. Your web-page needs to convey that same tangibility without the ph [Read More]

Mortgage Giant, Freddie Mac released this weeks Prime Mortgage Market Survey (PMMS) showing the average mortgagerates on a fixed rate mortgage rising for the second week!The surveys reveals the following:30-year fixed-rate mortgage (FRM) averaged 3.91 percent with an average 0.6 point for the week e [Read More]

The continuously fluctuating stock market, rising energy prices and the interest rate debacleas created quite an uncertainty within the National Real Estate market as of late. However,industry analysts predict that sellers are in a great place as the demand for housing is high,but for the buyers, ho [Read More]

Moving can be a stressful time for you and the family. Below are small steps that you can take that will make this time just a little bit easier.Make a ChecklistMake a list of everything that needs to be done during the move. Include the packing order, turning on the utilities at the new house, turn [Read More]

Mortgage Giant, Freddie Mac released this weeks Prime Mortgage Market Survey (PMMS) showing the average mortgage rates on a fixed rate mortgage has dropped to the lowest levels seen since May.The surveys reveals the following:30-year fixed-rate mortgage (FRM) averaged 3.84 percent with an average 0. [Read More]

Even some of the most experienced home buyers can learn a thing or two when it comes to purchasing a new home. Just when you think you have thought of everything, you will find you missed a few things.For instance, what would be the importance of the location of the laundry room? One place that I ca [Read More]

How wonderful would it be to own some beautiful land and a nice home in the tropics of Costa Rica? Or your own vineyard in Italy? Many Americans are looking to purchase real estate internationally with the hopes of gaining more bang for their buck! During the financial crisis, property prices in Eur [Read More]

Nothing can be more irritating than to have a beautiful home for sale and when you look at the images on the web they are blurry, distant and/or nonsensical. Like the images that I have found on this website.I mean, why? Why would you do this on purpose? I am always surprised to see what some agents [Read More]