Open houses. Do they help sell houses?
On this blog, I’ve often discounted the importance of open houses. I’ve stated that they are traditionally a marketing tool for agents to find new clients but maybe I’ve been wrong?
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Realtor’s listing presentations
Listing Realtors The last two listing presentations that I have been invited to have been extra interesting because in both cases I was the…
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Looking ahead to change in the real estate world
Together we can change the world It is a bit of a paradox that the real estate industry is often the first to adopt…
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How to get multiple offers
Love them or hate them, multiple offers are still happening A couple of years ago when the real estate market was white hot here…
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Obvious things that home sellers tend to miss
Selling a home is fairly easy Somethings, like replacing a broken wheel on your dishwasher’s top drawer seem easy until you actually begin and…
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Advice for buying a home. Don’t believe it.
Half the advice I receive is bad (I just know know which half) Times change. How we do things change. What was true thirty…
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What happens if the buyer cannot close?
Closing the loop The market suddenly changed. And now some sellers can’t sell. Some buyers can’t close. When I say ‘suddenly’ I mean virtually…
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The house next door might be a bad comparable
You can’t control everything, but you can control the comparable sales data I mentioned in a recent blog post how buyers and realtors have…
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List price: a new meaning
There was a house in Waterloo with a list price of $799K. It sat on the market for about three weeks then the listing was…
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What does the seller have to tell the buyer?
This blog post will discuss disclosure of material facts, essentially the question is “What does the seller have to tell the buyer?” The business…
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