Deerwood Realty and Friends Podcast

In this market, which heavily favors the home seller, buyers can easily be frustrated and I know some have even given up.  Here are some tips on re-setting your search and dealing with the frustration of what has become one of the more difficult environments for home buyers in history.

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Thoughts:  Here are some ways I look at the real estate market when I am working with buyers. 

Continue reading Frustrated by the search for a new home? Here are 12 tips and mistakes I see buyers make …147 at Deerwood Realty.

Deerwood Realty and Friends Podcast

It may be surprising to the general public that real estate agents deal with a ton of stress in their everyday business.  That’s not to say that every job isn’t stressful in one way or another.  Here are some unique ways our business tends to be stressful.

a.  We’re usually dealing with time deadlines with respect to contracts.

b.  If you have no buyers, and you have no sellers, you are essentially unemployed. 

Continue reading Stressed Being a Real Estate Agent? Here’s 8 things that may help…146 at Deerwood Realty.

Deerwood Realty and Friends Podcast

I happened to see an article that was a survey of homebuyers…I wanted to go over it because I was surprised with the results versus what I do in my actual business and wanted to bring you along for the ride.

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Thoughts:

1.  2,000 homeowners surveyed, all who purchased in at least the last 5 years, and then split between buying during the pandemic and buying before the pandemic. 

Continue reading Buying a home now? Surprising Survey Results…145 at Deerwood Realty.

Deerwood Realty and Friends Podcast

I feel like I’ve always been pretty honest when working with my clients, but I know that it’s easy to lie in the real estate game and it seems like few agents ever get caught to where it affects their business so I thought I’d take a look at some of the more interesting ones.

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Thoughts:

1.  “Now is a great time to sell your home.”  Is it? 

Continue reading Top 10 Lies Real Estate Agents Tell Sellers Before they list their home…144 at Deerwood Realty.

Deerwood Realty and Friends Podcast

Zillow put out a press release that said 75% of new homebuyers regret the purchase of their new home.  What is up with that?

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Thoughts:

1.  Top regret is that they purchased a home that needs more work or maintenance than expected.  This is why you don’t buy a house as is without inspections!  Seriously.  Every house is going to have issues, but asking your family member over to take a look before a purchase and not getting a professional inspector is crazy. 

Continue reading Can 75% of new homebuyers really be regretting the purchase of their new home?….143 at Deerwood Realty.

Deerwood Realty and Friends Podcast

Saw a story about a fellow who is going through the process of deciding whether or not to list an inherited house and I kinda wanted to walk through the process

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Pertinent facts

a.  Fellow inherits home after his father passes away about 7 years ago

b.  He currently lives there with his fiancé.  They have done work to the home but he just can’t get over the trauma.

Continue reading Time to move on from a house with trauma? … 142 at Deerwood Realty.

Deerwood Realty and Friends Podcast

A mortgage loan officer reacts to finding out her client spent 37,000 on a psychic before loan closing.

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Thoughts: 

1.  Does it matter if it’s real?  So the tiktok isn’t real, and the mortgage officer says that it’s a re-enactment of the actual call…I don’t know about you but the fact that she goes out of her way to say it’s a re-enactment makes me believe that the original story is real.

Continue reading Homebuyer cant buy a home because of her psychic? …141 at Deerwood Realty.

Deerwood Realty and Friends Podcast

Homes in flood zones…an odd issue that I wanted to talk about a little today…let you know where my thinking is and then let you decide for yourself.

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Thoughts: 

1.  You find that perfect home…gorgeous and priced right too.  Why is the house priced lower than similar houses you’ve seen?  What are you missing?

It’s in a flood zone.

Continue reading Some real estate agent thoughts on buying homes in flood zones…140 at Deerwood Realty.

Deerwood Realty and Friends Podcast

Ryan Serhant’s brokerage is picking off agents from much more established players in the marketplace.  How?  Personality…it matters in real estate sales

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Thoughts: 

1.  Personality sells homes.  You figure that out in real estate after a while…and you are a walking billboard. 

a.  You are marketing everything about you. 

b.  You are marketing that you want to be someone other people want to be around. 

Continue reading Real estate brokerage using a secret weapon to recruit quality agents… What?….139 at Deerwood Realty.

Deerwood Realty and Friends Podcast

I saw this article on helping seniors when they decide they are going to downsize…I’ve dealt with this topic working with seniors when they list their homes and I wanted to go over it.

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Thoughts: 

Here are the first points the author makes

1.  Know what hurdles you face

2.  Reframe the move

3. 

Continue reading For Seniors looking to downsize…some thoughts… 138 at Deerwood Realty.