How to Negotiate Repairs After a Home Inspection?
Common Repairs Sellers Must Fix After a Home Inspection: What Must Sellers Fix?
Do Most Sellers Make Repairs After a Home Inspection?
Does the Seller Pay for Repairs After a Bad Home Inspection?
Who repairs home — buyer or seller?
Home Inspection Repair Requests a Buyer Shouldn’t Make?
Reasons Why A Seller May Cancel Their Listing Agreement
I’ve seen many reasons why people will change agents, but the biggest 2 are number 1, the home is not selling. This could be a lot of reasons. Pricing, photos, staging, marketing or the agent not communicating. For most people, it’s uncomfortable to fire anyone and if you’re in an agreement with a real estate agent, it really does take a lot of courage to decide to make a change. But if your agent,
Walk with Barb in Her Daily Real Estate Agent Schedule by Barb Schlinker
Step into the world of a Real Estate Agent’s Daily schedule with Barb Schlinker of Parker St Claire Realty. Barb talks about how her 3 closings (homes sold) went that day while driving out to a listing appointment. She gives a tour of the more rural eastern El Paso County where you get to see windmills and country life that day.
Why Buyers Cannot Trust the Accuracy of Available Homes Online
Did you know that most home buyers will be searching online for 12 or more different websites? Why do they do that? Because they’re afraid of missing out on the perfect home. Even according to industry experts, national websites are not the best option to find a home, including Zillow and Realtor.com.
How to Prepare for a Home Inspection
Very soon one of our team members will be reaching out to you to let you know when the buyer would like to schedule their home inspection. Don’t worry, your home does not have to be show-ready. So here is a shortlist of tips that you can do to make your home inspection go well.
Most home inspections take about 3 hours and the buyer and their agent will attend and they would prefer that you did not attend, but it’s…
How to Sell a House Fast – What to do if a House is NOT Selling?
Even though Today’s real estate market is considered a “Seller’s Market” meaning there is low inventory, and the average days on market is 29 days, more than 1/3 of the homes that do on the market do NOT sell in this current market.
How to Keep Your Credit Scores High During Retirement in Colorado Springs
This Blog is full of tips that retirees should know about their credit score.
In retirement years, purchases such as buying insurance, buying cell phones, renting cars, using the debit card in particular, buying cars and even applying for a mortgage may require a strong credit score. Yet many retirees become debt free and stop paying attention to their credit score because they don’t need to borrow money. With data breaches…
How to Sell a HOME Checklist
Consider Curb Appeal, buyers do judge a book by its cover. Make sure your front door is freshly painted. Check your mailbox to ensure it’s in good condition. You can trim overgrown landscaping. These are low-cost things that go a long way to making the best first impression. Make sure all the rooms are de-cluttered and very clean…especially kitchens and baths. In fact, you cannot clean enough.
Top 5 Home Inspection Tips for Sellers
The happiest time for home sellers is when you negotiate and get an accepted offer on your home. And then the saddest or most frustrating time is when the home buyers asked for stuff on the inspection or worse, decide not to buy it because of their inspection and then don’t even tell us what’s wrong. Did you know that according to the national association of realtors, as many as one-third of the contracts fall apart over the home inspection? So how can you be prepared as a seller?
Are We in a Housing Bubble?
One of the most common questions I get from people thinking of selling their home is should I sell my house before the market crashes? Well, no, not for that reason, but if you need to sell your home, we can help you with that. You know, even experts like Core Logic believed that this market is going to continue to rise for the next 5 years.