Clean vs. Cluttery Offers With multiple offers breaking out all over the Twin Cities housing market now, it’s a smart idea for prospective Buyers competing for a home to know what, besides price, is likely to set their offer apart . . . for both good and bad. Good: a short, clean offer with a...Read More
Seller Goal: Fast But Not TOO Fast After years of seeing lengthening timetables for the Buyer’s Inspection and Underwriting approval, the pendulum is now swinging the other way — at least on some deals this Spring. Which ones? Homes in multiple offers. Unrealistic Deadline(s)? That’s the word from Edina Mortgage’s Steve Mohabir, who’s noted the...Read More
The Consequences of “Highest & Best” in Multiple Offers, or, “Woulda Coulda Shoulda” With tight inventory and the prospect of multiple offers returning to various Twin Cities neighborhoods, it’s a certainty that at least one local home Buyer this Spring — upon hearing they came up short in multiple offers — will protest, “But, I...Read More
Anyone else out there detect this not-so-welcome trend? Namely, Spam emailers shoehorning all the content of their email into the “subject” line to ensure that it gets read by the recipient — if only for a second — before getting deleted.Read More
Shameful, Self-Interested News Networks Here’s a not-so-crazy thought: Want to deter ISIS from beheading Westerners? In addition to degrading ISIS through military action, as the Administration now vows to do . . . STOP MAKING ISIS BEHEADINGS THE LEAD NEWS STORY EVERY TIME IT HAPPENS!! Rewarding Terrorism; Attention = Oxygen Each time such an atrocity leads...Read More
Two Ways to Identify Unmotivated Buyers What is the #1 bane of Buyers’ agents? Unmotivated Buyers. As a public service to my (occasionally beleaguered) colleagues everywhere, herewith are two ways to identify such Buyers (for illustrative purposes, I’ll call them “the fast way” and “the slow way,” respectively). Strategy #1 Once you’ve gotten acquainted with...Read More
