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COLORADO REAL ESTATE ARTICLES
Step 13 To Selling Your Home: We’ve received an offer! What does it Mean?
Fabulous! We’ve gotten our first offer. We’ll review it carefully together. A few main points we want you to pay particular attention to in the contract are the: Offer price: What price did you want for your home? What is the least amount you’d be willing to sell your home for?...
Step 12 To Selling Your Home: The First Week Your Home Is On the Market
The first week your home is on the market, there are two very important metrics which we keep a close eye on: Number of Showings Our goal is to have between 5 – 10 showings, depending on the time of the year, the first week your home is on the market. If we don’t have at least 5 showings we may...
Your Tax Refund Can Help You Achieve Your Homebuying Goals
Have you been saving up to buy a home this year? If so, you know there are a variety of expenses involved – from your down payment to closing costs. But there’s good news – your tax refund can help you achieve your goals by paying for some of these expenses.SmartAsset estimates the average...
Step 11 to Selling Your Home: Time for Showings!
Fabulous news! We are now showing your home!! Here are a few things to keep in mind before every showing: Have your home look just like it did for the photographs (ie. clean, all dishes put away, floors free of dog hair, etc) Put all toilet seat lids down Open all curtains/blinds Turn on all...
Step 10 To Selling Your Home: Putting your listings on Zillow & other sites…
Once your property goes live in the MLS, it will be put it on the rest of the real estate websites, i.e.: ColoProperty.com Homes.com Nexdoor.com Zillow.com Realtor.com This process takes 24 – 48 hours depending on the site so be patient. We will also send you the link to the custom website...
Step 9 To Selling Your Home: My property is live in the MLS. Now what?
Congratulations, your home is now on the market and all the hard work you’ve put in thus far should start paying off! So far, you’ve done a lot of prep work to get your home market ready. Now it’s our job to bring you an offer. Generally, it takes 24-48 hours before we get our first showing...
Step 8 to Selling Your Home: We will Pre-Market Your Home
While the professional photos are being edited, we’ll market your home before it’s even on the market by executing the below strategies. We’ll discuss which tactics make the most sense for your property and situation: Advertise your home via the Custom website. This is a great way to expose...
Step 7 to Selling Your Home: Professional Photography
We’re so close to getting your home on the market! Last step is professional photography. We’ll let you know a few days in advance when the appointment is taking place. The appointment itself will take between 1 – 2 hours for condos and 2 – 4 hours for single family homes/townhouses,...
Step 6 To Selling Your Home: Deep Clean
This should be done the day before or the morning of the photography appointment. We want your home sparkling clean, especially the kitchen and bathrooms. If you don’t want to personally clean your home, we’d be happy to send our cleaning crew over to clean it. They charge flat rates depending on...
NATIONAL REAL ESTATE ARTICLES
How Home Equity Can Help Fuel Your Retirement
If retirement is on the horizon, now’s the time to start thinking about your next chapter. And you probably want to make sure you’re set up to feel comfortable financially to live the life you want in retirement.What you may not realize is you likely have a hidden goldmine of cash you’re not...
3 Reasons To Buy a Home Before Spring
Let’s face it — buying a home can feel like a challenge with today’s mortgage rates. You might even be thinking, “Should I just wait until spring when more homes hit the market and rates might be lower?”But here’s the thing, no one knows for sure where mortgage rates will go from here, and waiting...
What To Do If Your House Didn’t Sell
Some HighlightsLast year, as many as 1 in 3 sellers took their home off the market because it wasn’t selling.If this happened to you too, you don’t need to be embarrassed. What you need are answers. And a local real estate agent can help with that by seeing if it was priced too high, needs some...
Smaller Homes, Bigger Opportunities: The Homebuilder Trend Buyers Love
It’s no secret that affordability is tough with where mortgage rates and home prices are right now. And that may have you worried about how you’ll be able to buy a home. But, if you don’t need a ton of space, you may find you have more cost-effective options in an unexpected place: new home...
If Your House’s Price Is Not Compelling, It’s Not Selling
There’s one big mistake you need to avoid when you sell your house this year: setting your price too high. It might seem like overpricing gives you room to negotiate or could really boost your profit, but the reality is, it usually backfires.In fact, Realtor.com says almost 20% of sellers — that’s...
Why More People Are Buying Multi-Generational Homes Today
Today, 17% of homebuyers are choosing multi-generational homes — that’s when you buy a house with your parents, adult children, or even distant relatives. What makes that noteworthy is that 17% is actually the highest level ever recorded by the National Association of Realtors (NAR). But what’s...
When Is the Perfect Time To Move?
It’s easy to get caught up in the idea of waiting for the perfect moment to make your move – especially in today’s market. Maybe you’re holding out and hoping mortgage rates will drop, or that home prices will fall. But here’s what you need to realize: trying to time the market rarely works. And...
2025 Housing Market Forecasts
Some HighlightsWondering what to expect when you buy or sell a home this year? Here’s what the experts say lies ahead.Mortgage rates are projected to come down slightly. Home prices are forecast to rise in most areas. And, there will be more homes available for sale.Want to know more about what...
One Homebuying Step You Don’t Want To Skip: Pre-Approval
There’s one essential step in the homebuying process you may not know a whole lot about and that’s pre-approval. Here’s a rundown of what it is and why it’s so important right now.What Is Pre-Approval?Pre-approval is like getting a green light from a lender. It lets you know how much they’re...
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