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Home Warranty

Posted on November 2nd, 2009 by Richard. Categories: For Home Buyers, For Home Sellers.

One of the things that I almost always recommend that  Buyer ask for when they make an offer on a home is for the Seller to provide a Home Warranty. Unless the home is just newly built and therefore covered by the builder or manufacturers warranties for major components, then it makes sense to have a home warranty policy to provide peace of mind and protection against a costly repair. A Home Warranty

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The Sky Is Not Falling

Posted on September 15th, 2009 by Richard. Categories: For Home Buyers, For Home Sellers.

It shouldn’t surprise me by now but it still does. The power of suggestion coupled with the choke-hold that the media has on the public collective consciousness. This rings true on just about any topic…but of course I’m a little more focused on real estate than other areas of discussion. The sky is NOT falling. I’m wondering what it will take to convince some people of that? The market is OK and getting

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Mistaken Identity

Posted on August 27th, 2009 by Richard. Categories: For Home Buyers, For Home Sellers, Real Estate Perspective.

I’ve been showing homes to a buyer-client lately. We looked at about everything available now on the market through the BLC (Broker Listing Cooperative) that was a close match to what they were looking for. And still they just can’t find the right home yet. So I suggested that if there were any homes For Sale By Owner in the area they were interested in, we shouldn’t overlook those as possibilities.

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Sellers Disclosure

Posted on August 3rd, 2009 by Richard. Categories: For Home Buyers, For Home Sellers.

When a property is being listed, there are several documents and forms that the owner signs and fills out in order to get the home on the market. The main document is the Listing Contract, but no less important is the Sellers Residential Real Estate Disclosure. That’s really a mouthful to say…so when speaking about it, I usually refer to it as the Sellers Disclosure. Indiana state law requires that the owner

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Final Closing…Time to Relax

Posted on July 7th, 2009 by Richard. Categories: For Home Buyers, For Home Sellers.

The sale of one of my listings closed today. What I hope for at final closing is that everything goes smoothly, that the mood is positive and everyone goes away happy. That’s exactly what happened today. It’s an important time in the lives of the Seller and Buyer. Both are ending a chapter and beginning another one, so you want things to begin or end on a happy note. The key

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Days On Market

Posted on June 30th, 2009 by Richard. Categories: For Home Buyers, For Home Sellers, Real Estate Perspective.

When I search the records of our local real estate board MIBOR to look for information about sold properties this year, the results say that there have been 10,131 homes or condominium transactions that have closed this year to date since January 1st in the greater metropolitan Indianapolis area (Marion County plus the other 8 counties that surround it). While that number is possibly surprising to some in and of itself,

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Back on the Grid

Posted on June 24th, 2009 by Richard. Categories: For Home Sellers, Market Conditions.

 
I was thinking today about the group of Sellers who have taken themselves out of the game for one reason or another. Maybe they had their home on the market earlier without success and just leery of having the same results. But usually they have allowed themselves unconsciously to be programed by the media who prey upon anyone…swooning them with negative reporting of current events and gloomy predictions for