Below you'll find a list of all posts that have been tagged as “Showings”
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
You’re selling your Wilmington area home. It’s been on the market for a few months, but you aren’t getting the amount of showings that you want. You’ve heard about buyer’s agent bonuses, where you offer some kind of gift (a specific dollar amount, an extra percentage of commission, a gift card, etc.) to an agent that brings you a buyer, …
The first step in buying a Wilmington area home should always be creating a budget. If you’re buying with a loan, that means getting pre-approved. If you’re paying cash, that means determining how much money you can afford to spend. Both options include taking into consideration lifestyle and future events that may affect your finances. Once you have done this, …
Some Wilmington home sellers don’t quite realize that more goes into showing a home than setting an appointment. It requires presenting the home in a way that will make Wilmington home buyers look beyond the current state of the home, i.e. furniture that might not fit their tastes or empty rooms lacking vision, to see what it would be like …
