Recommending a Radon Test (or Not) “No man Realtor can serve two masters.” Regular readers will recall a recurring theme on this blog. No, not my penchant for alliteration. 🙂 My stance on single agent dual agency, which is when the same agent represents the Buyer as well as the Seller. Namely, I regard it...Read More
Blog “Traffic Reports” First, a disclosure: while I cannot identify specific visitors to this blog (nor do I want to), I CAN see the domain names they — you — are visiting from, as well as which posts visitors start and finish on. I regard that as useful feedback, and use it (at least a little...Read More
“Risk Without Return” Just two weeks after I last noted plunging interest rates (see, “Refinance Redux, or, “Thanks, Greece!”) . . . they’ve dropped even further. This time, the catalyst is Spain (can you spell C-O-N-T-A-G-I-O-N?) While home Buyers may not follow gyrations in world debt markets, if you’re looking for a home — or...Read More
Avoiding Personal Property “Tug of War” The general rule in residential real estate is that fixtures stay, personal property goes. Which, I suppose, just begs the question: ‘what’s a fixture?’ (See, “How to Tell if Something is a Fixture“). But a good corollary is, “when in doubt, better to be explicit.” So, the Sellers in...Read More
“They Heard it Through the Grapevine” I’m sure there’s more than one definition of a tight-knit neighborhood, but here’s mine: when a friend calls you up to congratulate you on selling a home two blocks away from him — and he doesn’t know the Buyer (your client), and the home hasn’t even closed yet! It...Read More
Multiple Offers, Momentum Shifts, etc. Unbeknownst to laymen, there is a predictable ebb and flow in the course of each housing transaction, whereupon each side is most (and least) vulnerable to the other. For a Buyer, the point of maximum vulnerability comes early: that would be after they have verbally come to terms to buy a...Read More
