Gwinnett County Market Report - April/May 2008 Market reports are a great tool to get the pulse of the market. There is one big drawback though. All market report are looking in a rear view mirror. We are seeing transactions from the last couple of months that completed deals that started a mont...
9010 Brixham Court This is an amazing house. There isn't really another way to put it. From the time you enter the fabulous wrought iron front door, it is easy to see that no expense has been spared while building and remodeling this home. While it is always popular to say that there are “too m...
Have you seen the logo? I have added it to my GarageHomesUSA site. What do you think? I had to tweak it a little… just the hot rodder in me. I will be using this logo with our new media buys. We recently ran an ad at Autoweek.com for a month as a test. We should be picking that up again soon...
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Client Gateway - A Cool Tool One of the great features I offer to buyers is the Client Gateway. If you aren't familiar, it is a custom private webpage that lists all of the properties that meet the criteria we decide on. As new listings are entered into the MLS, they show up in the Client Gateway th...
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Here are a couple things to keep in mind:
So, Lane… why are the average days on market usually several months? There are a couple of reasons. To start with, it is an average… a lot of homes sell faster, and a lot sell slower. If you look really hard through the listings, you will see that the homes that sell late in the listing period, you will see price reductions. Had they been priced that way to start with… they would have sold faster.
Another reason goes back to the first few points I made. Many properties are rushed on to the market. “Get the listing, get the sign in the ground, get it on the MLS and then do the collateral work.” That is the way most agents operate. The first week (the most critical time) the listing doesn’t have flyers, doesn’t have a web site… Read More
But, what has happened is that I got a call that disturbed me. It wasn’t from a homeowner in the Atlanta market, it was a few hundred miles west. It was what they were struggling with that bothered me… This person was hoping to do a single property website as part of their marketing effort, and they found that their home’s internet address had been bought by a real estate agent they didn’t know. That’s right… and he wanted $500 to sell it back to them. Not to give them a property web site. Not to represent them. Just to let them have their address URL back.
Luckily, while we were on the phone, we came up with an alternative (actually about 4 different ones without even getting... Read More
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As a seller, being involved in this type of transaction can land you in deep water. Just as with the agents, appraiser and buyer (possibly the mortgage broker and closing attorney as well) there is a possibility of criminal charges for the seller. Jail time.
So, the bottom line is that sellers need to make sure that they don’t fall into one of these schemes. The offer might start out sounding normal, and then there is a call to change some of the terms. Obviously, I would say that having a good agent is one way to stay out of this type of trouble. You need to know and trust the person you are working with. If in doubt, contact an outside party to see what they think. Read on.
So, Lane… why are the average days on market usually several months? There are a couple of reasons. To start with, it is an average… a lot of homes sell faster, and a lot sell slower. If you look really hard through the listings, you will see that the homes that sell late in the listing period, you will see price reductions. Had they been priced that way to start with… they would have sold faster.
Another reason goes back to the first few points I made. Many properties are rushed on to the market. “Get the listing, get the sign in the ground, get it on the MLS and then do the collateral work.” That is the way most agents operate. The first week (the most critical time) the listing doesn’t have flyers, doesn’t have a web site… Read More
