Water Cooler Real Estate

Your home is listed on the market, now you receive an offer. Great News!

In this Episode, The Insiders ask Sellers to consider the many terms of the offer, but as important, the current market factors that may affect the overall value of the offer. Each of these issues can and will affect the potential for an accepted offer, as well as a successful transaction that ultimately best meets the Sellers needs.

Buyers and Sellers across the country are wondering what to expect in Real Estate for 2019.

No crystal ball here, but The Insiders discuss thoughts and forecasts from national Real Estate Experts, as to the direction the Real Estate Market will head over the next few months.

Boom or Bust? What to Expect in the coming months for the Real Estate Market in Beautiful Portland, Oregon!

In this Special Portland Episode, The Insiders offer a little market history, some of the current market factors, and a glimpse into the future of the PDX Real Estate Market.

So, you have decided to sell your home. Naturally, one of your first steps in preparing your home to sell is going to be DIY projects throughout the house. In this episode, The Insiders discuss which of those projects you should do, which projects will add value, and other projects you should avoid!

Every Buyer would LOVE to get a $Million home for $250,000. In today's episode, The Insiders discuss 3 easy steps to help Buyers make the Home Buying Process as fruitful and as painless as possible. Buyers need Expectations, Objectives, Goals, Prioritizing & Protections!

Homes aren't SOLD online, but they are Eliminated! In this week's episode, The Insiders discuss that often times Less is truly More when presenting home photos online.

When Sellers understand that the SOLE object of marketing and promoting a home online is to get Buyers through the door, it then makes sense to be very particular with the photos we are utilizing to attract these Buyers.

If you are going to be buying a home in the near future, this week's episode is VITAL! The Insiders touch on 5 easy steps to save you Thousands of Dollars in your upcoming purchase.

As an important Real Estate Mogul (Dru Wilkinson) often said, "Paying Rent is just Throwing Money Down a Rathole!"

In this week's episode, The Insiders compare and discuss Rent Payments vs Mortgage Payments, and how the Tax Benefits can allow Home Owners to justify the larger payments, as well as Establish a basis for Future Wealth.

When you are out looking for a new home, one way to compare one home vs another is Price/sf. Unfortunately, often times, Buyers trick themselves in to thinking that a lower price/sf is always better, and sometimes Buyers ultimately end up giving price/sf too much weight in their home purchase decision, which can really hurt their enjoyment factor down the road. In this episode, The Insiders explain Price/sf, and discuss when this valuation is meaningful, versus when it should simply be thrown out of the home purchase decision making process.

You have found a home, you are now working with the Lender to get all of the financing documentation in order. In this week's episode, The Insiders welcome Robin Weirich of SecurityNational Mortgage Company to discuss the Top 10 or so Pitfalls and Blunders that Buyers mistakenly make that will potentially sabotage their home purchase.