If you’re buying a house in our current seller’s market, you might be tempted to waive your home inspection in order to make your offer more appealing to the seller. Maybe you think you can fix things yourself, or your sister is super handy, so some reversed hot and cold faucets or missed grout is […]
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In a seller’s market like the one we’re in now, many homebuyers are having to compromise to find and buy their new home. Over the past year, the biggest compromise buyers have made is having to spend more. Forty-eight percent of buyers in a new HomeLight survey said they paid a higher price than they […]
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We hear it every winter: “I’m thinking about buying a house this year, but I’m going to wait until the spring and see how things are at that point.” Sellers say it, too; they want to wait until spring. That’s fine, but as I said in our January newsletter, whether you’re buying or selling, you […]
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It never fails. As soon as the calendar turns to January, people start thinking about buying a new home. But we know for some of you, the process of buying a house is a total mystery. And that’s okay! We were all first-time homebuyers at some point, needing help with understanding how the homebuying process […]
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With the Tri-Cities market so heavily favoring sellers (same as just about every market across the country), friends have asked me … why is anyone buying a new home right now, anyway? It’s a good question, and the answer is simple: People move and buy new homes for a variety of reasons. Some people move […]
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If you’ve shopped for a home with me, you know I am always thinking about resale. I always look at any house with the thought in the back of my head, “When they call me in two, 10, or 25 years and want me to sell this house for them, what will the resale advantages […]
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