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Almost 90% of all new home buyers start their search online, and photos sell houses! Most buyers won't even look at listings with few or no photographs, and many real estate sites rank their listings by the number of photos a listing has. So it is important to make the first impression count! Follow these crucial tips to prepare your home for the best real estate photos possible.We are not all the same, I swear. Realtors, that is. But with real estate agents like this prize-winner on the loose, it's no wonder we're sometimes ranked alongside guys selling discount gold watches and stereo equipment out of the trunk of a Buick. ("Act now, and we'll throw in a free genuine gold Rolex!")
As a licensed real estate broker for many years, a lot of "how-to" articles pass through my Inbox on the fast-track to Trash. I recently came across helpful hints on how to get listings from FSBO's – aka "fizz-bo's" – folks trying to sell their homes "by owner," without the help of a Realtor.
A Realtor by the name of Lynn Hicks (apparently her real name) gleefully offered her "Super-Successful FSBO Technique":
"When I see a FSBO pop up, I call and tell them...
Just like the title to your car, "Title" to a piece of property is a bundle of rights, including use of the land, water, and minerals on a piece of land. Those rights can be split up between different parties. For instance, you can own the rights to the ground on a piece of property, while I can hold the rights to the minerals found in that ground. In West Virginia, it is very common for minerals rights not to convey with surface (ground rights); mineral rights have often been sold off to mining companies.
I have been a real estate broker for a lot of years. And if I had a buck for every time a prospective seller told me how much they "needed to get" for their house, as if it were a value carved in stone, I could take us out to dinner. OK, maybe that's a slight exaggeration. But, sadly, what you need or would like to get out of your house, and what the house is worth, may be two entirely different things.
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