Even in this crazy market it’s important to maximize the return on your real estate investment. Here are five things you need to do to maximize the return on your investment and to get the most favorable terms and timelines when selling.
Truth of the matter is, we might not be the right agents for you and that’s ok. If you don’t like agents who go the extra mile, or If you don’t like agents who AREN’T pushy or salesy, or If you don’t like people who are really, really, really ridiculously good-looking… Then we might not […]
Most people burst into tears when he leaves the room. He once saved a baby’s life from an angry gorilla using only his pointer finger. His beard is responsible for adding two kids to his family, less than 9 months apart. He is the most interesting realtor in the world. I’m not always this extraordinary, […]
So you’ve made an offer on a home and it has been accepted, congratulations! Now what? Well, now is your chance to find out everything you can about the home to make sure it is acceptable to you since you will be living there! The Inspection Phase Typically, the inspection period starts immediately once the […]
Here is the latest chart accurate as of 05.08.2020. We are averaging 5 new listings per day and 9 go pending each day. The number of cancellations have dropped from one per day to one per week. To give you an idea of context, here is last week’s chart: Week to week, pendings are down […]
Last week, we showed a graph of new listings, pendings, and cancelled listings in Lewis County over a period of one week, 3 days, 24 hours, and a daily average. To give some context to these numbers, I thought it would make sense to do it again. This graph is from last week. This graph […]
22S – The Septic Addendum This form is common in Lewis County as we have a lot of rural housing. You typically won’t find this for homes in town, although I’ve seen them on the edges of Chehalis & Centralia as they grow outward. So what exactly is a septic and what is the addendum […]
Average Home Price Up $4000 Welcome to a new year! I took the month of December off for blogging so I wanted to catch you up with what has happened during that time. December 2019 Market Update: The headline for this would have been that Home Prices DROPPED $1,000. That would reflect the month of […]
Part 5: Title Contingency Addendum The Title Contingency Addendum, or 22T as we call it in the biz, is a very important 1 page form. Although about half a page long, the 22T is a protection for the buyer regarding the ownership of the property. Encumbrances Let’s say there is a neighbor who thinks they […]
This is the 2nd part in the series of The Anatomy of the Deal where we’re breaking down the purchasing process into bite size pieces. In the first part of this series, we discussed the offer form. You can find that post at …