Water Cooler Real Estate

Water Cooler Real Estate

By Real Estate Insiders Cynthia and JasonBusinessInvesting
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Water Cooler Real Estate episodes

  • Episode 40: Stigmatized Properties (Death Discount?)

    How do death, ghosts & crimes affect home Values and market times. In most states, Sellers are required by law to disclose known physical defects in a home for sale. However, in this week's episode, The Insiders discuss the concept of Baseless Psychological Factors such as ghosts, spirits, and deaths in homes, and how, and to what extent these issues can potentially affect the home values.

    25 min
  • Episode 39: 5 Quick Buying Tips
    For Your Listening Pleasure during the Holidays, The Insiders offer Five Quick Buying Tips to make sure you're prepared for your upcoming home purchase, and to ensure an all around pleasant Home Buying Experience.
    7 min
  • Episode 38 - Improving Curb Appeal
    You never get a second chance to make a First Impression! In this episode, The Insiders talk to Sellers about 10 great ideas to improve the curb appeal of your home, in order to maximize the first impression for prospective Buyers.
    14 min
  • Preparing To Buy - Financing Guide
    Are you considering Buying a home? Have you met with a lender to discuss financing? In this week's episode, The Insiders welcome Robin Weirich of SecurityNational Mortgage Company to discuss purchase preparation subjects such as credit reports and scores, credit line balances & limits, budgeting, and Debt to Income ratios. For maximum benefits, Buyers should really consider meeting with a lender up to 6 months ahead of their purchase.
    23 min
  • Episode 36: Professional Home Inspection
    What to Expect when you are Inspecting! In this week's episode, The Insiders welcome in our guest Gordon Tolbert of AmeriSpec Inspection Services, to talk about the home inspection portion of the Home Buyer's vital due diligence period. Gordon discusses the inspection process, inspection tips, tricks,and the types of issues your home inspector may find throughout the house you are considering for purchase.
    56 min
  • Episode 35: Sewer Inspections & SewerScopes

    Hopefully this has never happened to you, but if it has, there are very few things worse than when the sewer backs up into your home. In this week's WCRE episode, The Insiders welcome Greg Bailey of Apex Home Inspections, as they discuss the Dirt on Sewer Inspections. Since the industry is mostly unregulated, there are many situations and opportunities for misleading and unfortunately, sometimes deceitful reporting. A couple of take-aways are, attending the inspection, and hiring a company that conducts the inspections, but does not do the potential repairs.

    48 min
  • Episode 34 : Escalation Clause
    As a Seller, the best scenario is when you get multiple offers competing with each other for your home. Sometimes, one or more of the offers may have what is called an Escalation Clause. In this episode, The Insiders explain the Escalation Clause and discuss how best to evaluate these offers and construct your strategy and your Seller response to these types of offers.
    14 min
  • Episode 33: Evaluating Multiple Offers

    In the perfect Seller situation, once your home goes on the market, you hope to get an offer within a relatively short period of time. Even better, is when you actually receive multiple offers. In this week's episode, The Insiders discuss Evaluating Multiple Offers. They discuss ranking offers by Net Value, but also considering the other valuable terms of each offer. In addition, The Insiders suggest using a Multiple Offer Procedure Form, requesting the highest and best from each Buyer. In addition, consider sending a counter offer to the most solid offer presented. Ideally, you strive for the highest sale price, but also want to benefit from the best combination of all other meaningful terms.

    19 min
  • Episode 32: Preparing For An Open House

    This week, The Insiders offer tips and advice for Sellers, helping them prepare their home when their Real Estate agent is having an Open House. It is best to appeal to all of the senses, and The Insiders offer some easy, yet effective ideas.

    24 min
  • Episode 31: Seller Counteroffers

    In this week's episode, The Insiders discuss the mindset of a Buyer, when they have received a counter offer from the Seller in a Real Estate Negotiation. The Insiders outline strategies on how to address the most common terms in a Buyer's Counteroffer, with the intent of getting a Seller Counter or Seller Acceptance.

    22 min

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CONSUMER REAL ESTATE PODCAST With The Insiders, Cynthia and Jason Lee! Join us weekly as The Insiders take you behind the scenes to help explain the sometimes complicated real estate industry in more relatable terms.