Getting Prepared in the Late Hurricane Season

In the age of global warming, who knows what the weather will do. Hurricane seasons have been erratic in the last ten years and one can never really predict when it will begin or end. We’ve had hurricanes before the hurricane season and recently well after it ended. The Hurricane season doesn’t officially end until [...]

“Walkability” is the latest Real Estate Trend

Bedrooms, bathrooms and square footage remain the biggest appeal of homes in the Jacksonville real estate market, but as competition swells it helps to have an edge by appealing to the latest real estate trends. Apparently over landscaping and garage is the up-and-coming real estate trend of “walkability”, which basically means an owners ability to [...]

Moving Advice

There’s not a single soul on earth that won’t cringe over the idea of moving everything they own from one location to another. Those who have moved before know that there are many preparations that can be made to ease the pain of moving.
First thing a mover should do is analyze the logistics of your [...]

Home Selling Gaffs

Selling a home can be difficult, especially in the current real estate market, but there’s enough information and expertise out there to make it less disastrous. Here are some major gaffs committed that prevent many from having a positive home selling experience.
Not picking the right real estate agent. Selling a home is a very important [...]

Efficient Home Upgrades

Insulate your water heater. Water heating is one of the most expensive utilities people pay for in their homes, and many of them are not operating at full efficiency. Try insulating exposed hot water pipes in your heater and watch your monthly water heating bill become much more manageable.
Get a programmed thermostat. Thermostats monitor and [...]

When to Not Buy

Most real estate professionals will encourage people to buy, buy, buy real estate. Surely, sometimes this advice can be misleading and most quality real estate professionals advise clients who, for whatever reason, shouldn’t buy to not buy. Buying real estate is an important step to financial independence and growing personal wealth. The majority of wealthy [...]

How Words can Sell Homes

I’ve you’ve even looked for a home for sale or tried to sell one yourself, you certainly know that extravagant words are often used to describe properties. Words are often used to make up for a home’s shortcomings like “Charming” for small or “has character” for an older home. But, a recent study done on [...]

Short Sales

Short Sales are a good solution for those seeking to get out of a bad loan and mortgage that is too expensive with your credit in tact. A short sale is a very time sensitive way to sell a home. The condo or home for sale in a short sale has a limited amount of [...]

Use Perks to Sell a Home

Selling a home is a difficult thing to do especially in the current real estate market. It helps to have an edge on the competition in the form of features that can impress buyers. Some of these features include environmentally friendly residential features, brand new fixtures, textured paint on walls, improving flooring and the addition [...]

You Should Buy a Home?

One of the biggest problems real estate professionals have explaining to people the benefits of homeownership is that people simply don’t believe them. It’s obvious that real estate professionals have invested interest in people buying homes, but the truth is that real estate ownership is the first step to financial success. People think that real [...]