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February 15, 2013

Ten Tips For Selling You Home

Selling Your Home? Follow These Tips As we move into the spring selling season here in San Antonio, it’s time to start thinking about how your home appears to potential buyers. Making your home stand...

Listing Your Home Is Not A Game

My Biggest Fear When looking through the San Antonio MLS listings on the market, I sometimes get a bit scared by what I see. It’s not 100% of the listings I see, in fact, it’s...

January 23, 2013

One Photo Does Not Sell A Home

Doing The Research For A Listing Appointment One day I received a phone call from a woman who wanted to list her home. I listened to her concerns, asked her some questions, and immediately jumped...

December 13, 2012

Can’t Sell Your Home? Try Renting It Out

If you’ve had your home listed for sale and it just doesn’t seem to be selling, there’s typically a few reasons. Price is always a major factor and even though we’ve seen an uptick in...

November 1, 2012

Holiday Decorating Or Listing Disaster?

Looking for some blog post inspiration, I was combing through my usual sources this morning and a post on Facebook from my friend Ines Hegedus-Garcia at miamism.com caught my eye. Her article, “When are Holiday Decorations too...

September 25, 2012

Seeing With Buyer’s Eyes To Sell Your Home

Home sweet home. Your palace. Your castle. This is where you live and you love it, but now it’s time to sell your home. Once the decision is made, your home becomes public domain –...

September 20, 2012

Should I Stay Or Should I Go Now?

So, you’ve decided to sell your house? Congratulations! After meeting with an agent to sign the paperwork, surely you’ve gone over the many things you can do to improve the way your home shows. From...

March 8, 2012

Uncanny Home Staging Tips

Staging – you’re heard the word a thousand times. You hear it on TV and you’ve certainly heard it from your real estate agent if you’ve sold a house in the past ten years. An...

February 27, 2012

Selling Your Home? Exposure Is Essential

Listing a home for sale isn’t as simple as putting a sign in the yard and entering some data into the San Antonio MLS (Multiple Listing Service). I should know, I help agents do it...

September 21, 2011

Why Good Real Estate Photos Matter

In real estate, you might only get one shot at capturing a potential buyer’s interest when it comes to the internet. Thanks to the explosion of the online home searching, that first impression becomes more...

September 15, 2011

Seller Financing – A New Win-Win?

If you own your home free and clear, or have inherited one with no mortgage attached, congratulations. You are now privy to a unique world of options when you go to sell your property. In...