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Creating A Better Real Estate Website With Thesis 2
It’s time for this real estate website to be reborn. The framework underneath the Tallahassee Real Estate Website was conceived and built in 2009, when I had a mere three years experience in blogging...
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Why Home Sellers Pay Buyer Closing Costs
A common question that we receive from home sellers relates to the structure of a real estate offer and whether or not they should “have to” pay buyer closing costs. At first blush, why the heck would...
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Introducing A Better Property Search Tool
Last month we announced the exciting changes being made to our real estate website, and the most exciting of all will be the enhancements to our property search tool. Our current Property Search Tool...
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Bring Me An Offer, I Want To Sell My Home
Back in the old days, when bread wasn’t pre-sliced and dinosaurs roamed the earth, somebody who was serious about getting a home sold would advertise “Bring Me An Offer!” You can still see this habit...
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When Does An Offer On A Home Become A Contract?
If you want an offer on a home to become a valid real estate contract, you must understand the important concept of communication. While I’m not an attorney, I do have some experience with real estate...
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What Comparable Sales Really Mean In Home Valuation
When you decide to sell a home, the real estate agent you speak with will often refer to comparable sales when discussing the value of your house. While common sense might lead you to understand that...
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Latest Reading From The Housing Market Barometer
Wouldn’t it be nice to have a housing market barometer that would provide us with an expected trend for home sales? Several years ago I attempted to create one and called it the Manausa Housing Herd...
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Real Estate Market Cycles Explained
Real estate market cycles come, and real estate market cycles go, but are you curious at all about how to use an understanding of current market conditions to make money in real estate investing? I...
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Does Credit Repair For Homebuyers Really Exist?
I have long advised my friends and customers to consider working with a company that provides credit repair for homebuyers. With the thousands of closings of short sales in Tallahassee over the past...
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Credit Repair Update – Our Case Study Continues
A few weeks ago I wrote a blog post titled Does Credit Repair For Homebuyers Really Exist? which was the first in a sequence of posts that will serve as a case study about credit repair services. With...
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3 Great Real Estate Jobs In Tallahassee
We are growing at Century 21 Manausa and Associates, and we have a list of real estate jobs for which we are now hiring. Our philosophy here is very simple. We work hard to help families who need to...
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Compression Market Time For Real Estate In Tallahassee
What happens to home values when high end homes are oversupplied, mid-range homes are at equilibrium, but low end homes are oversupplied – because that’s what we are seeing for real estate in...
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Twitter Broadens The Real Estate Market
I am often asked about the impact of Twitter on my real estate business. With roughly 200,000 “followers” on Twitter, my accounts help bring attention to my Century 21 office in Tallahassee and I...
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How To Read Real Estate Graphs
Aristotle once said that “a soul never thinks without a picture,” thus I am quite sure he would have relied upon real estate graphs to better understand the housing market of his day. OK, maybe not,...
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How To Read A Real Estate Graph With Multiple Axes
The real estate graph video that we posted yesterday (How To Understand Real Estate Graphs) generated quite a few views and some good feedback from our readers. Apparently, we touched upon an important...
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How To Win A Real Estate Negotiation
Having been a Realtor in Tallahassee for more than 20 years, I have seen my fair share of real estate negotiation styles. It’s funny though, there really are only two primary strategies that we see...
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A Real Look At Real Estate Appreciation In Tallahassee
One of my pet peeves from within the real estate community relates to how many individuals wrongly calculate and report real estate appreciation. They look at the difference in average home prices (not...
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A Layman’s Guide To Real Estate Investment Terminology
I was recently analyzing a real estate investment with some of our agents and I realized I could produce an informative post about real estate investment terminology. I am combining a real world...
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Are You Letting A Cap Rate Rob You Of Your Real Estate Investment Return?
If you have looked at commercial or large scale residential real estate as an investment, you probably have been schooled in using a cap rate analysis for the preliminary selection of property. If you...
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How Mean, Median, And Mode Are Used In Real Estate Reporting
You might know that mean, median, and mode are all names for “average,” but do you know how they can be manipulated for real estate reporting? Before you [Yawn] away this article, I want to let you in...
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