Your Place and Mine is a new website designed to help home owners sell their homes and homebuyers find a listing that meets their needs. A free and public forum service, Your Place and Mine puts a sellers home out there for additional promotion and allows buyers to...
If you've read my posts about selling my Boston condo as a "For Sale by Owner" property, you know my husband and I a.) are crazy and b.) have been working our butts off for the past few months. But the good news is that we just signed the P+S (purchase and sale)...
My recent FSBO experience has me wondering if I'm targeting the right websites to advertise my house. A co-worker tells me some outrageous stat that 90% of home buyers go to Realtor.com, which of course, I can't be on because I don't have a Realtor. But I don't know...
The good news: Our Open House was successful! It was a beautiful, sunny day (as shown in the picture) and we had over a dozen couples come to see our place. My husband hosted the hour and a half showing and said there was tons of great feedback. One woman didn't...
As I mentioned yesterday, my husband and I have decided to sell our Boston condo ourselves. We have a little bit of experience (and a lot of luck) doing this with one other property, and depending on how this sale goes, we're about to think we're pretty amazing -- or...
My husband and I have decided to sell our Boston condo -- ourselves. I have to admit that I'm a total stress case about it, but my personality would have the same stress level if we were with an agent. Except maybe I wouldn't be doubting our every move. Here is why we...
I recently put my Florida home on the market and am so frustrated with the real estate dance. Here's the deal: When someone visits your home, the Realtor generally gets feedback from the buyer's agent. This feedback is usually filled with non descriptive terms so as...
The new $8,000 federal tax credit is spurring some people on to take the plunge and become first time home buyers. From the Wall Street Journal comes some sound advice on making your property more attractive to these newbie purchasers. The article points out one thing...
Analysts are expecting a flood of new homes to hit the market this spring, and some are hoping the combination of lower interest rates coupled with government incentives and efforts to free up credit will bring out the buyers. The low interest rates have gotten...
It's a fact: Houses that are "staged" for buyers are more likely to sell, especially in a down market. Now you can learn how to stage your own home with this video clip from the show Open House NYC. In the video, broker Jared Seligman runs through the basic ideas and...
