Louisville Realtor Turned Superhero
As with any business where humans participate, there is a psychology involved. Real estate is no different. In fact, it’s more varied and diverse because there are a larger number of roles interacting with the buying or selling of properties. In this article, I’m going to look at the psychology of marketing real estate from …
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Looking for Home Maintenance Tips for Spring? You’ve come to the right place! I imagine you’d be hard pressed to find any Spring home maintenance tip not listed here.
One of the most popular questions I get is, “When is the best time to sell my home?” And it really increases as we get closer to Spring. There’s a quick answer but where’s the fun in that? Instead, let’s look at the Top 10 tips that will help you answer this tricky question so …
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In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes. – Benjamin Franklin Today’s tax environment gives new meaning to his nickname, Poor Richard. Am I right? Once new tax systems are instituted our government is jealous to keep them in place. Sure, taxes may drop for a season but they’ll …
I rarely tire of hearing great things about my city, Louisville. Well, I don’t actually own the city, I just live here, but still… I’m a huge fan. So it’s great to hear national praise like this—the USAToday Reader’s Choice Awards ranks Louisville #2 in their list of Best Cities for Local Food. Jammin’! (Do …
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For years, I’ve been tracking and publishing data on which home improvement projects give you the best bang for your buck. The National Association of Realtors (NAR) performs surveys each year they call their Cost vs. Value reports. Now keep in mind, the values that are derived from these surveys are merely estimates. Sure, they …
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I’m always looking for ways to help my clients. Today, I’m even going to help all of you who are not (yet) my clients. I present the Top 10 Selling Mistakes in Real Estate.
When you go in search of that new pack of gum to buy, do you research the different brands, customer ratings and ingredients online first? Of course not! It’s a pack of gum. It’s a buck. Our time is too precious. This makes a great deal of sense. It stands to reason that as the …
Professional home staging tips is a major part of selling your home fast. And at the highest possible price! Properties that aren’t well-staged, remain on the market longer and end up selling for less than they are truly worth. Don’t let this happen to you. Great home staging can take your ordinary, ho-hum house and instantly …
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When I first got into Louisville real estate, Howard Stacey, a successful broker for Semonin once said, “Real estate is a woman’s business.” He didn’t mean it in a demeaning way, quite the opposite, he wanted us to know that when it comes to real estate women call the shots. At the time, I thought …
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It’s not difficult to find the best tips on home staging when you’re selling your home. I keep my Top 10 Ways to Prepare Your Louisville Home For Sale updated each year. What might be more difficult to find are the “dont’s” of home preparation. What are the things we don not want prospective buyers …
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Louisville has so much going for it. Now we’re super affordable? Get out! The smart people over at Forbes sorted through the Top 100 largest Metropolitan Statistical Areas (MSAs) and Metropolitan Divisions (MDs) to find which are the most affordable cities to live in the U.S. Each has a populations of 600,000 plus, so no …
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You know who Fodor’s is, right? You don’t?!? Ok, I didn’t either, until I looked it up and found out that they’re the “world’s largest publisher of English language travel and tourism information” so… they’ve got that going for them. Well, since they obviously know a thing or two about great places to select for …
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The rejuvenated NuLu area of Louisville is really shaking some things up. Sure, everyone in the United States loves talking about traveling abroad but we have some great places right here. Travel & Leisure Magazine put together there list this year in part of it includes the Best Places to Travel in the United States …
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Did you just get a bad Louisville appraisal on your home? Is the value so far from what your Realtor told you? Don’t feel bad, or maybe you should, because this happens all the time. This lady is shocked to see the bad Louisville appraisal for her home! Are you kidding me? Real-world, Real Bad …
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