How do you capture a buyer’s heart for top dollar and get to the closing table faster? By staging your home to sell! And staging your home doesn’t have to be a massive effort or incredibly expensive. Making small changes to your home like updating your lighting both inside and out allows you to raise …
What happens with your reverse mortgage after you die depends on if the person you want your house to go to is a co-borrower, a non-borrowing spouse, or an heir. Most of the time, a spouse will keep the home and get to stay in it, but that isn’t always the case. Let’s take a …
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While pre-approval and pre-qualification are both important when buying a home, there are slight differences that impact how smoothly your transaction will go. Both statuses also occur at different stages in the home buying and selling process. Pre-qualification is the first step in the homebuying process and pre-approval is the next. For both you will …
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When you’re approaching the closing table and the title search is complete, you’re going to see the deed to the property you are buying or selling. This is when you’ll come across the terms Grantor and Grantee. Grantor and Grantee are legal terms for the people, companies or entities that are buying and selling a …
An appraisal contingency is a clause in a purchase contract that allows a home buyer to back out of the agreement without losing their earnest money deposit if the house is appraised for less than the purchase price. The appraisal contingency is commonly used by buyers in areas where prices are volatile like California to …
A “quiet title” is a name given to a legal proceeding that takes place in civil court when someone makes a claim about the rightful ownership of a property during a real estate transaction. A “quiet title action” is the evidence provided by the person defending their ownership. The questions about ownership can come from …
The differences between pre-foreclosures, foreclosure auctions, and REO foreclosures (real estate owned) is that each one is a step in the foreclosure process instead of being a type of foreclosure. Each one of these steps follow one another and each one has opportunities for you to save your house, although they diminish as each progression …
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Having a welcoming home brings more leads and can increase how much money you will get in an offer, which is why curb appeal matters. In fact, curb appeal can increase perceived home value by 5 to 11%. So if your house is on the market for $100,000, an 8% increase from a $1,000 curb …
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Have you received a cash offer on your house and aren’t sure what to do? We can help. When you receive a cash offer, it means that the buyer has cash-on-hand and wants to purchase your home without a mortgage. The major benefit to accepting a cash offer on a house is that you won’t …
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You’re purchasing a home and are in the midst of negotiations when all of a sudden a real estate purchasing agreement is handed to you. Don’t panic, a real estate purchasing agreement is a standard document that you and the seller must sign before going through with the sale of the home. This post will …
