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 [...]
There are certain truths in every business, things you just know to be true. After 10 years in Real Estate, I have learned that some things never change. These truths are [...]
I am not an Appraiser, but I just completed 99 hours of Broker training and we spent days studying the methods an Appraiser will use to verify the market value of your home. In todays market Buyers are buying the way Appraisers are appraising and very few are willing to pay more than appraised value for your [...]
Where do our buyers come from? In Coastal Delaware, so many of the new Buyers now come from outside Delaware and have limited local knowledge about our communities, builders or lifestyle. On top of that, quite a few Baby Boomers have been in their current home for 20 years or more, so it's been a long time since they bought a home. Now that [...]
In between showing homes to prospective buyers and visiting with current clients, there is the time alone in the car. It's my creative time to reflect on what I enjoy about this business of real estate. The other day, it hit me [...]
It's a chilly day in January, a good time to take a look back at 2010 and see what it tells us about the real estate market in Coastal Delaware. Bill and I moved here in 2003 and have specialized and focused on Baby Boomers who either live here or want to live here at some point. What kind of home are Boomers buying in what kind of [...]
I was at Independence this afternoon for a pre-construction conference call with one of my clients who still live in Florida. When one of my clients buys a new construction home, I always attend as many of the meetings during the construction process as I can. Especially when they are not able to attend in person, either my husband Bill or I [...]