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Common Mistakes that Homebuyers Make

Buying a home is always an anxiety-ridden process, and that goes triple for anyone who's embarking on homeownership for the very first time. There's so much to do and so much you don't know that "overwhelming"...

15 Ways Buyers Can Compete With All-Cash Offers

In markets where all-cash offers are common, it can be easy for buyers to become discouraged early on in their home purchase process. After all, how is an everyday buyer supposed to compete with a cash offer...

8 Steps To Handling Unhappy Post-Purchase Buyers

Even the very best real estate agents at the top of their careers have to deal with clients who are upset with them after the transaction closes and everyone walks away from the table. But even though it's a...

When Is The Right Time To Sell Your Home?

Is now the best time to sell your home? That's an intensely personal question that depends on a number of factors -- many of them beyond your control. In 2006, some sellers might have been wondering if they...

The First-Time Buyer’s Guide to Choosing the Perfect Property

Daydreaming about owning your own home is one of the most intoxicating practices known to modern man, especially now that HGTV is a thing. But when the time comes to actually put your money where your daydream...

Homebuyer Beware: Look For These Key Signs To Avoid a Money Pit

If you've seen the Tom Hanks classic movie, "The Money Pit," you know that while it's funny happening to someone else, when your fixer-upper home becomes a money pit, it's more like a horror movie. If you're...

5 Quick Staging Tips When Selling Your Home

There's a reason why people love looking at photos of homes for sale -- it's rare that we get to see a place look it's very best, and scrolling through gorgeous room after room helps serious buyers see...

Tips For Buying A Healthy Suburban Home

Moving to the suburbs can be a real toss-up when it comes to living a healthy lifestyle. On one hand, you probably have access to clean sidewalks, big parks, and more room to wander, which is very helpful when...

Tips For Buying A Healthy Urban Home

Living a healthy lifestyle seems like a simple choice to make: You get one body and one mind, so it's best to take very good care of both, right? As anybody who lives in reality knows, it's not quite that...

How Can an Agent Help Me Buy a Home?

Most people don't buy a home every day -- it's a once-or-twice-a-decade activity for many of us as opposed to a day-in-day-out activity.