Nesting In Nashville Real Estate & Home Listings For Sale
Nashville Realtor | Stephanie Crawford | Keller Williams
The following is exerted from the most recent Tennessee Association of Realtor’s newsletter. It is a timely article. This week I have run into three separate multiple offer situations and I lost another bid that was over asking price. QUESTION: Now that the market has heated up again, I have received multiple offers on a [...]
1. Not Taking You First Offer Seriously. It isn’t always the case, but in general, the first offer tends to be the highest. Perhaps not right off the bat, but try countering the offer. You may be able to move the conversation to a place that doesn’t make you completely nauseous. 2. Offering Credits For [...]
Bad Inspections Experienced agents can see these train wreck coming from a mile away. We deal with inspection reports every day and nothing can kill a deal faster than the ill will that often results from a bad inspection. Some items sound like a big deal when in reality it may only cost a few [...]
Here is a good clip from the Today Show on appraisals. I can’t say that I agree with every point. For instance, I don’t recommend handing the appraiser a stack of comps yourself – this job should be tasked to your listing agent. Also, if you are selling your home in Nashville you shouldn’t expect [...]
We Realtors hear stories from unhappy home sellers all the time about why their last agent couldn’t get the job done. “He didn’t do this, she didn’t do that…” But as an agent working in the field every day, I can tell you this: SELLING A HOME ISN’T ABOUT THE AGENT. It’s about the house, [...]
A new article published by RISMedia, “Home Buyers Shun ‘Fixer-Uppers’” by Kathleen Lynn, contrast the housing market of five years ago with today’s market and notes that — with so much inventory on the market — homes needing work or repairs will often remain unsold: *** BEGIN QUOTE *** [Five years ago] buyers often felt [...]
I get this question frequently. The folks at Mint.com created a cute infographic image below that can help walk you through the decision. I’m on board with nearly everything here, except they leave one BIG issue out of the picture, and that is current equity stance. In the olden days (think 2007) when you went [...]
Pricing your home correctly is the most important aspect of the entire home sale process. This video explains how home owners who set the correct list price initially tend to net more money and sell faster. This particular video shows home sale stats from Donelson in 37214, but I’ve recently found similar trends in East [...]
One Study Say YES! I’m a firm believer that professional photography is the only way to go when presenting a property to the market. Studies from most real estate sites concur that homes with multiple pictures get far more attention online than listings with few photos. Now, a Redfin study reports that listings offering high-quality [...]
Here’s a great article that I ran across on the BrokerAgent Social Network. by Antonio & Alexia Cardenas, “The Realtors In Motion” in San Francisco “Most lawsuits in real estate transactions, are the result of buyers feeling that the seller did not tell them all they knew about the house, before they bought it. Most [...]