Home Selling Tips

September 3, 2009

The accuracy of the Zestimate

If you have not heard of Zillow’s Zestimate yet, then “Welcome back from what must have been a long vacation”.  The Zestimate has to be Zillow’s most popular tool and both home buyers and home sellers love it.  Us Realtors on the other hand we love it NOT so much.  Why?  Because we have to […]
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August 21, 2009

How to give your fluorescent light a new look

As I was flipping through the pages of the latest Realtor® Magazine, I came across an article on decorative light lenses.  At only $32 a piece,  a light lense is an inexpensive way to add a little pizazz to your big and boxy kitchen fluorescent light.  The light lenses are made to easily slip into a standard 24 by […]
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July 10, 2009

Does your home’s listing have Web appeal?

If not, it could explain why your Spring Texas home is not selling.  According to a recent ABC News article, Spencer Rascoff, the CEO of Zillow.com says “Sellers used to have to worry about curb appeal: How does the grass look, etc. Now a seller needs to worry about Web appeal: When […]
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June 23, 2009

When should you show your home?

The movie, “The Godfather” proves itself once again as having the answer to yet another real estate question. This time the question is when should Spring Texas home sellers accept showings on their homes? The answer:  “Maunday, Tuesday, Thursday, Wednesday, Friday, Sunday, Saturday”.  Any day of the week, any time of the day […]
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June 10, 2009

Letters of the Real Estate alphabet – P and PS

In the real estate alphabet the letter P is for Pending and the letters PS is for Pending Continue to Show.   There are more commonalities than differences between the P and PS statuses that I decided to discuss them together. Spring Texas real estate listings in a P or PS status are: Under Contract – the sellers […]
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May 30, 2009

What Spring Texas home sellers can learn from “The Godfather”

Over the years I have seen my fair share of Spring Texas real estate transactions fall apart during negotiations. Some of the negotiations have broken down even before the house was in contract and others fell apart during the Option Period.  If only the home sellers had learned what the movie, “The Godfather” teaches […]
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May 18, 2009

How do you determine the right price for your house? by sizing up the competition

The other day I was meeting with potential home sellers and we were discussing the Spring Texas real estate market and what it takes to get homes sold. We looked at the MLS print-outs of the comparable homes and discussed how the homes could attract additional buyers with better quality and more […]
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