by kramoltz@hotmail.com | Apr 3, 2015 | Home Buying, Preparing a Home for Sale, Selling Your Home
1. Bad listing photos. Badly executed (i.e., blurry, dark) ones reflect poorly on the home, seller and agent. Poorly chosen photos (of ugly things, small rooms) make things worse. More is not always better! 2. Dirty homes. One agent related how she and her buyer found...
by kramoltz@hotmail.com | Mar 1, 2015 | Home Ownership, Preparing a Home for Sale
People are putting money into their homes again now that values are rising. Of course the declining values didn’t stop remodeling, as owners without equity decided to stay put and improve rather than do a short sale. In any event, owners can significantly recoup their...
by kramoltz@hotmail.com | Feb 28, 2015 | Home Buying, Preparing a Home for Sale
Around Halloween last year I wrote a blog about gruesome surprises found in homes for sale. It seems that agents are continuing to find all kinds of disturbing things in homes and foreclosures. In Milwaukee an agent found a very dead occupant on the stairs in a home...
by kramoltz@hotmail.com | Feb 28, 2015 | Preparing a Home for Sale, Renters and Renting
If you buy and fix up older homes to sell or hold as a rental, it just got a lot more difficult and expensive. New federal regulations effective in April of this year (the “New Lead Rules”), now require professional remediation techniques when even a...
![Remodeling Always Pays Off.]()
by kramoltz@hotmail.com | Feb 28, 2015 | Home Ownership, Preparing a Home for Sale
When homes decrease in value, people stay put. Many are unable to move due to a lack of equity or can’t afford the sale and moving costs. But if homeowners need a change, will they recoup any of their costs if they remodel? Remodeling Magazine’s Cost vs. Value...
by kramoltz@hotmail.com | Feb 10, 2015 | Preparing a Home for Sale
Want more stories of offenses encountered by buyer’s agents when showing homes? Here are a few more things sellers have done wrong. Cleanliness and clutter are consistently in the top 10 offences. Dirty laundry piles, dishes on the counter or sink, unmade...
