What a difference a year makes. At one point early last year I remember some concern about the number of resale homes on the market in some of our 55+ active adult communities. Well, I just finished touring communities with clients this week and it is slim pickings for those that want an existing home or a quick delivery home. To find [...]

A vacant home never shows as well as a home that has been professionally staged. Buying all the furniture and decor to make your home look like a model can be a very expensive proposition. But, when you list your home with Active Adults Realty in Coastal Delaware, we will have your home staged as part of our Listing Marketing [...]

Take a walk through the town of Milton or Ellendale, Georgetown or Millsboro, and ask yourself what will this town be like in 10 years? Take a look at the people, the houses and the businesses, then put on your City Planner hat and think about how you would create a downtown where people will want to live, work and socialize ten or twenty [...]

How often do you worry about retirement funds, run your figures through those "How much do I need to retire?" calculators and read about the best asset allocation strategies?

The bottom line is that nearly everyone who has angst about thin retirement accounts likely needs to pare back, save more, and manage money better.

Some great tips in these articles in the [...]

There are many considerations when you are planning to sell your home and move. The longer you have lived in a house, the more difficult your job will be. Staging will not only help you sell your home faster and for more money, it will also help you to claim your own personal [...]

Ever since Sandy devastated so much of the Mid-Atlantic Region, many of our Buyer Clients have asked this question Is Lewes, Delaware in a flood zone? That is quickly followed by this question Can I get flood insurance and what will it [...]

Co-opetition - in real estate we compete but mostly we cooperate. We compete for a listing. We compete to attract a Buyer. But once we have a client, whether a Seller or a Buyer, our business is based on cooperation. Thats why I call the core of our business successful [...]

Relocating to a different state can present some challenges if one or both spouses are still working. I have been working with Buddy and Linda for some time now but never both of them at the same time. First Buddy made the initial inspection trip and decided he liked it here. Then we had to find a time when Linda was going to be in the area [...]

What happens when you price your home right? The phone rings. Agents schedule showing appointments. There is excitement and activity. A new listing in a nice community that is priced appropriately for the market will be noticed. You stand a very good chance of getting an [...]

We have already talked about a Lease/Purchase as an option when selling your home. But another option in many situations is what we call Early Occupancy.

Lets consider all the elements that have to come together perfectly in order to get your home sold:

First, you have to get your home in perfect condition to list. Today, your home has to show like a model AND be priced appropriately if you want to [...]