Caring for your home maintains its value, preserves equity and increases its desirability for both you and future buyers.
"Big repair items often start off as small things we overlook for months," says Brad Gamlin, owner of Advanced Home Inspections in Richmond, VA. He says "the most important things a homeowner can do is the small maintenance stuff - changing your filters monthly, unclog your gutters, caulk small seams, etc." As you shed your home’s winter skin this year, add these important steps to your spring routine to keep it clean, safe and valued at top dollar!
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The 2023 real estate market is eclipsed by higher interest rates, strong home values and swirling fears over economic uncertainty. Savvy consumers watching national trends and headlines question if it’s time to buy…or time to wait.
Here are 4 questions to ask to help you decipher if 2023 is your year. Simpler life has never felt so appealing or been in higher demand. The Covid era revolutionized the way people think about working from home and downsizing life activities. Life a little removed from urban sprawl is no longer a thing in just the country songs. More space, more privacy, more peace in everyday life? Yes please.
But when you live just a little off the main grid, you may encounter septic systems for the first time. Whether you own a home with a septic system already or are shopping for a county zip code, here are the things you absolutely must know about septic systems. October’s arrival ushers in colorful foliage, pumpkin spice and cooler temperatures.
With fun fall activities waiting in the wings, it’s easy to forget the steps to take now to prepare your home for winter’s arrival. Avoid being left out in the cold with these nine important maintenance tips! Talks of mortgage rate hikes have been all the rage lately, but only those shopping for a new home should be paying attention, right? Wrong.
Mortgage rate fluctuations have a profound impact on all of us – not just buyers. Renters, happy homeowners and investors are all connected to the housing market circle of life. Here are four ways you may be impacted. It would be easiest to jump on the dooms day band wagon and predict a housing market crash. After all, no one criticizes pessimists when markets perform better than they predict. We aren’t as kind to those who overshoot with rosy predictions, though.
Yet the reality I see in the housing market - as the factors stand today – is promising. So allow me to put my head on the chopping block and suggest that the housing market may see a soft landing this next recession rather than the crash and burn we saw in 2008. A big reason why? Are you still renting because the initial cash required or maintenance costs once you own seem out of reach? If you are continuing to rent for one of these five reasons, let’s run through a quick side-by-side comparison on renting vs. buying over the initial years or even the next thirty!
While renting provides a practical housing solution short-term, time and again the data tells us it is not the best solution in the long run for building wealth and financial independence. So read on to make sure your choice to continue renting is, in fact, based on all the facts and not easily debunked myths. Friends and family are great companions for dinners and holiday gatherings. But if your you’re selecting an agent solely based on relationship, you could be left holding the bag of poor real estate choices with a much longer life span than your leftovers.
Your home is one of the largest investments you’ll make in your life time. Oftentimes, it’s our greatest asset in retirement. So it comes as a shock to learn that most buyers and sellers don’t interview their real estate advisor. Finding the best fiduciary to handle such an important financial transaction, can be done with asking 4 simple questions. How soon before buying or selling should you speak with a Realtor? A month, three months, six months?
Would you be shocked to learn I recommend folks reach out to me 12-18 months before they want to buy or sell? Reaching out too late is a costly mistake that could mean:
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