Listing agents provide a lot of valuable insight about properties when they list them in the Multiple Listing Service (MLS), and many MLSs have apps that you can download on your phone. You may already be using one if you are looking for properties with a Realtor. If you aren’t, these apps let you easily see information about a home’s …
How to Prepare Your Home for a COVID-Safe Showing
As real estate brokers in Wilmington, NC, we have assisted a variety of homeowners sell their properties throughout the pandemic, including those who are high-risk or have family members who fall in that category. We understand the stress of uncertainty and the risk posed by strangers entering a home. We also know that job transfers still happen, family members want …
How Many Showings Before a Home Goes Under Contract?
Are you dreading the moment you have to open your home to showings? I empathize. I like my privacy and schedule, and the thought of having my home life disrupted induces a certain level of anxiety in me. So, you may be trying to mentally prepare yourself for the amount of time you’ll need to make do, or you may …
5 Tips for Being Ready for Every Showing
When your home is on the market, you want it to look great for every showing, but keeping up with the cleaning when you have other responsibilities, like work and family, can seem daunting. That’s why we’ve compiled 5 of our best tips for being ready for every showing. 1. Identify the areas of the home that get dirty the …
Buyers, Are the Home Sellers Watching Your Showing?
People in general are much more tech savvy than they’ve been in the past. Thanks to technology becoming increasingly user friendly, it’s become easy for the Average Joe to set up cameras and recording devices in their homes…nanny cams, web cams, baby monitors, video game console cameras, surveillance cameras, SmartThings…all of these products and similar provide homeowners with a way …
Reasons Why Some Buyer’s Agents Don’t Provide Feedback
When you list your Wilmington area home for sale, you will have a number of agents showing it to their buyers. After each showing, the agent will receive an automated form through our centralized showing service asking them questions about what they or their clients thought of the home. They are not required to fill out this form. Giving feedback …
Which Price Ranges in Greater Wilmington are Getting the Most Showings?
The Wilmington Regional Association of REALTORS uses a centralized call center for scheduling showings of homes. Not only does it take some of the work out of tracking showing times and who is accessing the home, but it also allows us to get a pretty good idea of what kind of activity each price range of homes is seeing. This …
Why Didn’t My Home Sell?
Are you frustrated that your home hasn’t sold? It doesn’t matter if you’re in Wilmington, Hampstead, or Little Rock, Arkansas – when a home doesn’t sell, it’s likely due to one or more of the following reasons. 1. Lack of Exposure. If you didn’t hire a real estate agent that syndicates their listings online, where 90% of home buyers conduct …
Can I Take Pictures While Viewing Homes?
In this day and age of technology and the internet, privacy for home sellers has become a sensitive topic. Over 90% of home buying is done with the aid of internet searches and online websites making pictures king. For a period of time, a seller has to live with their home electronically “open” to the public. Strangers can see their …
Buying Advice from Real Buyers
This month, I invited a wonderful group of bloggers from MyBlogU to answer some questions about their home buying experiences. The result was some really good first-hand advice, not from us, the Realtors, but from the perspective of people who have already bought. Now, keep in mind that these bloggers hail from across the world, but I think you’ll notice …
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