Are You Really Too Young For Homeownership?
When Is The Right Age To Buy A Home? I get this question often. A reader who is 20 and financially ready asked if it is too soon to buy a home. The honest answer is that age is not…
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Slow Home Sale Is Causing Anxiety and Stress. What To Do?
Stressed About A Slow Home Sale Here Is How To Get Back On Track A seller from a metro area in Ohio shared that their home has been on the market for 3 weeks with 2 price reductions, about 6…
Why Homes Resell Quickly and What Buyers Should Know
Should You Worry When A House Is Back On The Market After A Year Every so often a buyer spots a home that sold just last year and is now for sale again. Many buyers have asked me over the…
Does Your House Smell? Here Is How to Fix It
When Cooking Odors Get in the Way of Selling Your Home This is one of those questions that many real estate agents have to walk very carefully around. Odors are a sensitive topic but they can make or break a…
Welcome To A Normal Housing Market
Why Cooling Prices Signal Health Not Trouble If you have been watching headlines and feeling uneasy, take a breath. All in all it is still a good real estate market. It just feels different because we spent the past few…
How Ignoring Feedback Can Stall Your Home Sale
Why Listening to Feedback Matters When Selling Your Home A long time client of mine who now lives in California reached out recently with concern about a property they have had on the market for nearly two months. Back in…
The Blame Game When Your House Is Not Selling
Should You Blame Your Agent if Your Home Is Not Selling A reader recently wrote to me with a frustrating situation when their house is not selling. They own a small updated cabin of about 692 square feet on 3…
How to Handle an Agent Who Lists at the Wrong Price
When Your Real Estate Agent Lists Your House Without Confirming the Price One of my readers wrote in with a frustrating scenario. They recently discovered that their real estate agent listed their home at the wrong price that they never…
Lessons From a Buyer Who Regrets His Purchase
Buying a Home Because of FOMO Can Lead to Regret A reader wrote to me recently asking about the dangers of rushing into homeownership. It reminded me of a recent Wall Street Journal article that tells the story of Gio…
How to Handle an Inherited Home From Family
What to Do With an Inherited Property in Poor Condition One of my friends reached out recently because she inherited a property from her mother’s estate. The home is in a remote part of the country where she has no…
