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5 Tips to Prepare Your Home for Sale
April 19th, 2015 Categories: For Sellers, Random Thoughts
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|7 Tips for Staging Your Home
April 12th, 2015 Categories: For Sellers, Random Thoughts
The first step to getting buyers to make an offer on your home is to impress them with its appearance so they begin to envision themselves living there. Here are seven tips for making your home look bigger, brighter, and more desirable. Read the rest of this entry »
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|Keep Your Home Sale from Falling Apart
April 6th, 2015 Categories: For Sellers, Random Thoughts
Finding a buyer for your home is just the first step on the homeselling path. Tread carefully in the weeks ahead because if you make one of these common seller mistakes, your deal may not close.
Mistake #1: Ignore Contingencies
If your contract requires you to do something before the sale, do it. If the buyers make the sale contingent on certain repairs, don’t do cheap patch-jobs and expect the buyers not to notice the fixes weren’t done properly. Read the rest of this entry »
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|Tax Tips for Divorcing Homeowners
February 4th, 2015 Categories: For Sellers, Random Thoughts
If you’re getting divorced, your home may be the biggest asset you’ll have to divide with your soon-to-be ex. As you decide whether to sell it and split the proceeds or let one spouse live there until the last kid launches, remember there’s often a third party involved in your home sale transaction: Uncle Sam.
Keeping, selling, or continuing to share your home can each create different federal tax tabs for you and your ex-spouse. Here’s a look at the tax consequences for six of the most common situations divorcing couples face.
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|7 Tips for a Profitable Home Closing
January 21st, 2015 Categories: For Sellers, Random Thoughts
When you’re ready to close on the sale of your home and move to your new home, you may be so close to the finish line that you coast, thinking there’s nothing left for you to do. Not so fast. It’s easy to waste a few dollars here and for mistakes to creep into your closing documents there, all adding up to a bundle of lost profit. Spot money-losing problems with these seven tips. Read the rest of this entry »
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|6 Tips for Choosing the Best Offer for Your Home
January 15th, 2015 Categories: For Sellers, Random Thoughts
You’ve worked hard to get your home ready for sale and to price it properly. With any luck, offers will come quickly. You’ll need to review each carefully to determine its strengths and drawbacks and pick one to accept. Here’s a plan for evaluating offers. Read the rest of this entry »
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