Putting (Too) Good a Face on Things? It’s a fact of (real estate) life: sales fall through. Buyers change their minds. Inspection issues come up. Buyers can’t get financing* (the honest explanation at least 80% of the time). When any of those (or other) unhappy events occur, listing agents have the demoralizing task of switching...Read More
Putting (Too) Good a Face on Things? It’s a fact of (real estate) life: sales fall through. Buyers change their minds. Inspection issues come up. Buyers can’t get financing* (the honest explanation at least 80% of the time). When any of those (or other) unhappy events occur, listing agents have the demoralizing task of switching...Read More
Sellers’ Four Big Sins: Music, Mirrors, and Masking Scents & Paint It’s been a long time since Richard Nixon and Watergate, but it remains true — at least in real estate — that “the cover-up is worse than the crime.” In that vein, here are four things that home Sellers misguidedly do to throw Buyers (and...Read More
“You May Need a New Roof if . . . “ Sometimes, it’s a close call whether a roof has any useful life remaining. Other times . . . it’s definitely not. If one or more of the following apply . . . the roof in question is in the latter category (apologies to Jeff Foxworthy’s, “You Might...Read More
What are the most common big-ticket inspection issues? Roofs, to be sure. Also furnaces, foundations, sub-standard plumbing or electric, and any suspect major appliances. But all of those things are usually already known to the Seller — and therefore properly disclosed (and preferably, addressed before a home even comes on the market). No Symptoms Which leaves items that Sellers...Read More
