Posts Tagged ‘live’
The Importance of Staged Rooms
When we stage our homes for sale there are different points of view and many consumers find the differences between cheap staging and expensive renovations to be a bit blurry at times. In fact sellers aren’t even committed to staging the whole home, a few choice rooms are usually enough to do the trick. The…
Read MoreRent at an All Time High: What are Your Options?
The number one reason a property sits is usually due to a pricing issues. Today Joe and Mike explain how buyers can make this part of a useful strategy if the seller is itching to get out of their home and cant. They discuss why expensive price tags are not the only reason the luxury…
Read MoreSight Unseen Home Buying
It takes a lot of trust and a strong buyer-agent relationship to buy a property sight unseen. Here in the US these transactions are more common because we may take the professional relationship for granted, but that isn’t necessarily the standard worldwide. This week Joe, Bobbi and Buddy discuss the finer aspects of buying property…
Read MoreIs Real Estate A Place to Live or Invest?
Going back 50+ years a majority of our parents and grandparents bought homes with the sole intentions of living there, raising a family and paying off a mortgage. Now, investing in a home’s resale value is a topic most everyone thinks about, especially when it’s your first home. Joe looks back at real estate’s transition…
Read More10 Happiest Places to Live and Down Payment Strategies
Whether you were born and raised there or moved in later, the places you live will always affect your outlook on life. Today Joe shares new data on the top 10 happiest places to live and the metrics used by researchers to determine the top 10 cities in the world. Can you figure out the…
Read MoreSan Francisco and San Jose- Two of the Top Cities to Live In the United States
If you live in the Bay Area, there’s a good chance you spend a lot of time sitting in traffic wishing you lived somewhere that wasn’t inundated with other people. Of course deep down we all know we live in one of the greatest places to ever exist. With San Francisco and San Jose making…
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