October 4, 2007 – 8:32 am
The methods used to determine asking price on any given property are so wildly varied as to defy clear definition. Especially as emotion plays such a large part in the ultimate decision.
In this market, in my opinion, the Buyer should set their own price.
A Buyer who worries while shopping about asking price and list price [...]
August 14, 2007 – 9:34 pm
There is long-standing folklore about those interesting people who walk around with a divining rod searching for water and the best place to dig for a well. Those folks call themselves “dowsers.”
“Dowsing is as strictly defined the claimed ability to discover underground sources of water or metals by means of a ‘dowsing rod.’ Another [...]
Is there a “best” time of year to buy a home?
Is there a time of year when Sellers are more willing to negotiate because they are more desperate?
When is that time? When?
If you trust your fundamentals, if you know that buying a home is the right thing to do for your own [...]
August 3, 2007 – 12:27 pm
So you know you definitely want to buy your own home. No matter the market conditions, interest rates, or status of A-Rod’s quest to hit Home Run #500, you have your reasons.
If that’s the case, how then to find a house at a price you’re willing to pay?
There is a glut [...]
November 6, 2006 – 3:45 pm
This is the process I recommend to my clients on the “How-To” of making an offer.
October 10, 2006 – 11:45 am
Have your attorney on your “team” before you get out there shopping for a home. It makes good sense to protect yourself in this way with the single biggest purchase of your life.
Two tools. Buyers use them to get what you want: your dream of homeownership at the price you’re willing to pay. Sellers beware!
Buyers need new strategies to help them accomplish their goal of homeownership. You can make your own buying opportunity.
There are plenty of houses out there. Keep going until you find a Seller who really is serious about selling their home.
Two important rules you should remember when shopping for a FSBO
