Every Seller thinks their home is the best home on the market, and believes that all it takes is the right buyer who will fall in love with the home, and the Seller will get what they want for it in terms of price. Unfortunately it doesn’t usually work that way. Dealing with a Seller […]
Bad MLS Photos of the Day
It’s your next installment of Bad MLS Photos! This one comes to you from a short sale in Riverview. Now listen up Realtors – just because it’s a short sale doesn’t mean you have an excuse to do a crappy job on photos and staging the home for photography! I do plenty of short sale […]
Don’t Wait Until Spring or Summer to List Your Home: Buyers Aren’t Waiting to Buy!
Many people have the idea that Spring or Summer is the best time to list a home for sale. While this may be the case for Northern states because it’s icy and snowing right now, that is most certainly not the case here in Florida. Snowbirds are here from Northern states looking to buy. Families […]
5 Things Consumers Should Expect From The 2013 Housing Market
Forbes.com published an article recently entitled “Five Things Consumers Should Expect From The Housing Market In 2013“. I’d like to highlight and summarize some of the important points in this article. It should be noted, however, that when media sources quote Zillow, I always tell my clients to take Zillow with a grain of salt. […]
7 Ways to Find the Best Real Estate Agent to List Your Home
Here in Tampa Bay, there are tens of thousands of Realtors, some of them part-time, some of them full-time, some good, bad and in between. So how do you know which one to hire when its time to sell your home? And how do you know which one specializes in your area, depending on whether […]
Seeds of a St. Petersburg Housing Shortage
The latest edition of REALTOR magazine just arrived, and I found an article by the chief economist of the National Association of Realtors, Lawrence Yun, quite interesting. The article says that “the inventory of existing homes is at its lowest level in 7 years, while newly constructed home inventory has also hit a 50-year low […]
