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Heritage Real Estate Grand Opening at Loft Offices & Conference Center
Buyers and sellers of Morgantown homes for sale have a wonderful new resource as Heritage Real Estate recently celebrated the grand opening of our new Morgantown office. Approximately 200 people came from as far as Wheeling and Pittsburgh to congratulate us and join in the festivities at Coopers Rock Convention Room in the Loft Office & Conference Center.
Heritage Real Estate Comes to Morgantown
Morgantown Area Partnership Board and other city dignitaries provided the perfect ceremonial touch by officially cutting the red ribbon with a giant pair of scissors. The group also presented us with a stunning plaque welcoming Heritage Real Estate to Morgantown.
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Should I Rent My House While I Try to Sell It?
Home sellers sometimes ask me whether renting their house while we're trying to sell it is a good idea. Particularly if they have moved on to a new job and home, and are now carrying two mortgages, they can be in very real financial trouble. Sometimes divorce is the culprit, as spouses and homes are torn apart, incomes separated, with two sets of living expenses where once there was one. 
I have seen sellers have their homes repossessed in circumstances such as these, when a renter may very well have prevented foreclosure.
Renting your house while you try to sell it can be a great option financially, assuming the renters pay the rent on time and don't tear the place up, leaving the homeowner to have to facilitate repairs in order to sell the home. Some renters are wonderful, caring for a home like it were their own. They mow the yard, paint th...
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Closing Costs: What's that Set of House Keys Going to Cost Me?
"Closing costs" is a confusing term. Depending upon who you're talking to, it can encompass various monies which will be required of a buyer in order to get up from a closing table with a new set of keys (hopefully with a 
Heritage Real Estate keyring attached). There are numerous charges and fees involved and buyers frequently get the terms mixed up. More often than not, neither lenders nor Realtors thoroughly and clearly explain things to the buyer.
Firstly, there is a difference between "closing costs" and "down payment," something first-time buyers frequently misunderstand. I recently had a deal go south because the buyer's agent didn't bother to explain to him that "zero down" didn't mean there were no costs involved. Imagine his surprise when, two weeks into our contract, he learned he had to come up with $4,000 in closing costs.
Your "down paymen...
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Blossoms in Fall
I sell houses to support my farming habit. To call myself a farmer would be an insult to all the real farmers since the Lord "put Adam in the Garden of Eden to till it and keep it." To the men and women who have, and do, 
eke their living from the ground, I tip my pink camo Tractor Supply cap. I wish there were more like you; we'd be a better nation, a better world.
But I've had my share of planning, planting, struggling, sweating, nurturing, joy, wonder, loss, and failure, followed by mustering strength and hope, and trying again. Each fall, the old farmer saying, "There's always next year," has consoled me when little went as I'd planned.
I planted my first 83 apples trees here at Zion Heritage Farm in the fall of 2013. It took me three days. When the last tree went in the ground, I could barely st...
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Happy Independence Day!
We will be closed today, July 4, 2016.
But if you'd like to have something to do besides house hunt, how about joining us at the Prickett's Fort Independence Day Celebration! From 10:00 a.m. until 4:00 p.m., there will be lots of historic patriotic fun.
Afterward, in Palatine Park, join us for music and fireworks:
3:00 p.m. – Tane Lynne & The Total Package
530 p.m. – Brother Short Band (with special appearance by Abigail Latocha)
8:45 p.m. – The Davisson Brothers Band
10:00 p.m. – Fireworks!!
Wishing you and your family a safe and happy Fourth of July!
God bless the USA!
Bill Porter, Broker
(304) 612-3746207 Aurora Dr
Morgantown, WV 26508
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