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Condo Hunting: If You’d Like to Have a Dog
June 28, 2021
A lot of my business is working with people who are buying condo or cooperative apartments. Some are renting, and others are planning to downsize from a house that’s grown too big. And they often have something in common: they love dogs! And what’s not to love! Well, maybe not the chewing socks ...
Continue ReadingA First-Timer’s Guide to Buyer’s Remorse
During the first week of real estate school, instructors bring up a serious affliction that grabs virtually everyone who buys or tries to buy a house or condo. It even has a name: Buyer’s Remorse. And almost everyone gets it at some point in any real estate transaction. And it’s ...
Continue ReadingBuyers’ Expanding Wish Lists
Over the last few months, a lot of buyers upped the ante on the number of bedrooms they wanted in their new homes. And this go around, it’s not about expanding families, but about creating home offices. For a great home office, you might need some extra space, but it ...
Continue ReadingNational News Coverage of Real Estate? Can It Tell You Anything Useful?
A lot of my news feeds are from places like Inman News and RISMedia, news services that are specific to real estate. The information about market trends is very different that what I hear on any of the network news services in one very important respect. The national news networks ...
Continue ReadingWhen Your Buyers Want Out
You put your home on the market looking like high powered buyer bait, and you were lucky enough to get several good offers. You chose the one with what you thought had the best price, best terms and least risk of falling apart. Then you got the call from your ...
Continue ReadingRabbit Holes
Rabbit Holes Since I left Kansas in my teens, I’ve been a Francophile. And most of my life, I’ve wanted to live in Paris, or at least someplace in France. And once I got completely hooked on Martin Walker’s murder mystery series, Bruno, Chief of Police, the someplace in France became the Perigord, ...
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