Don’t Let A Frankenstein House Scare You From This Buyer’s Market

Posted on June 18, 2013 Written by Leave a Comment

Surely you have seen or heard about the movie of the man-made monster, but have you also heard about the Frankenstein House?

In the movie, eccentric scientist Victor Frankenstein creates a grotesque creature by assembling and then reanimating body parts from multiple dead people.

In the real estate market, cautious buyers are looking at numerous homes and assembling all of their favorite features of each home.

This home that they seek, a mythical house, pieced together by all the favorite parts of houses that they’ve viewed, has them hoping the perfect house is out there.

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Four Timely Housing Tips For A Young Married Couple

Posted on June 17, 2013 Written by Leave a Comment

I was talking with a respected Tallahassee accountant this morning about a young married couple and their desire to buy a home.

Unlike young married couples of ten or twenty years ago who were trying to buy as much house as possible, these “kids” are conservative and looking to spend far less than their means would allow.

On the surface, they appear to be making a wise move, but a thorough review of real estate market conditions suggests there might be a smarter path for them to choose.

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Erase The Fear With The Right Custom Home Design Build Company

Posted on June 5, 2013 Written by Leave a Comment

In our ongoing effort to bring more information to people interested in building a home, today we explore the concept of custom home design build.

The traditional approach to building a home consists of the selection of a designer to create the plan for the home, and then the selection of a contractor to actually carry out the construction project. Often times people have a set of plans that they like, and then they start the search for the contractor for the home building process.

The custom home design build process merges those two responsibilities into one professional. The builder coordinates both the design and the build. The relationship between the customer and the builder is more in line with the “master builder” approach, and proponents say it creates a stronger builder-customer relationship.

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Is Now The Best Time To Buy A Home?

Posted on June 4, 2013 Written by Leave a Comment

For all those super cautious people in the world, let’s ponder the question “Is Now The Best Time To Buy A Home?”

I would think that if you are happy with where you live, then now is not the best time to buy a home.

But if you have been contemplating a move, you might want to consider these two very strong arguments that support now as the best time to buy a home.

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Selling A Home? Take 3 Lessons From The Yoshi Blade

Posted on May 30, 2013 Written by Leave a Comment

If you are thinking about selling a home, you might want to take a lesson from the makers of the Yoshi Blade.

For those few readers who were never touched by the Yoshi Blade marketing steam roller, it is a simple, cheap ceramic knife that was mass-marketed through all the prime internet based channels.

Most people were drawn, at one point or another, to check out the video of this miraculous cutting utensil.

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My Interview With A Custom Home Builder

Posted on May 29, 2013 Written by Leave a Comment

In my series of articles about new construction in Tallahassee, I plan on interviewing a custom home builder or two in order to get their view of the market and any good guidance that we can glean.

Yesterday, I spoke with Lenny Brantley of Brantley Custom Homes who has been a custom home builder in Tallahassee for more than 20 years.

I asked him to tell me something that our readers probably do not know, and then to share any insights he might have. What he shared was a whopper!

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VIDEO: We’ve Put The House Search Under Your Control

Posted on May 27, 2013 Written by 2 Comments

Since the beginning of time, homebuyers needed a real estate agent for a proper house search.

If you really wanted to know about all the home listings in Tallahassee, you had to work with a seasoned real estate veteran to find everything available.

Even when the internet blossomed full of property search tools, in reality, it took a REALTOR to tell you which ones were really still for sale.

Until now.

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Quit Making Tactical Errors In Your Real Estate Counter Offer

Posted on May 24, 2013 Written by Leave a Comment

I was talking with an agent yesterday about a real estate counter offer he received, and he was scratching his head wondering what the home seller was thinking.

Now I’ve seen this sort of thing for more than 20 years in the Tallahassee real estate market, but I still lack the words to explain to an agent why somebody would make such a tactical blunder when selling a home.

If you are want to sell a home and get top dollar, you should really focus on the bottom line when you counter a real estate offer.

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It’s Easy To Get A Florida Real Estate License

Posted on May 23, 2013 Written by Leave a Comment

Now that the housing market is showing signs of recovery in most regions of the US, I expect we’ll see higher activity among people seeking to get a Florida real estate license.

I’ll be the first to admit that it takes very little to become licensed to sell every type of real estate in Florida, but there is a process that one must complete.

There are a few different ways to get a Florida real estate license, and this article covers them in enough detail for you to recognize both “what it takes,” and why you should be highly selective when choosing a real estate agent to help you buy or sell a home.

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What I Learned From The Stock Market When I Went To Sell My House

Posted on May 22, 2013 Written by Leave a Comment

“Joe, I want to sell my house, what do I need to do?”

Home seller questions are common for me these days, and they are also favored (after all, that what we do here at Century 21 Manausa and Associates, we sell houses :) )

I often use analogy to explain things to people who are getting ready to sell a home, because it really is a process that is fairly easy to grasp and it does not take months to sell a home. So if you are getting ready to ask somebody to “sell my house,” read on!

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