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How To Use a Realtor(R) To Your Advantage!
You’ve seen the articles. You’ve heard the same thing over and over. You need to hire a professional real estate agent, a REALTOR(R) who will be able to sell your home, or find your next dream property. If you want to get it done right, you “need” to do find that agent. Or at least […]
How To Determine the True Market Value of Your Luxury Investment Property
Are you considering selling your luxury investment property? One of the most important things you can do to position your investment property in such a manner that it will sell according to the current market, and not languish as time goes on, is to price your property appropriately. But how do you determine the appropriate […]
Golf Course Properties in South Maui
As if South Maui and its gorgeous beaches weren’t enough, the golf enthusiast can truly call the area paradise. With prime golfing weather year-round, there are many luxury properties that any golf aficionado would love to call home, or perhaps their “home away from home.” The only dilemma you may have is which golf […]
7 Reasons Why You Should Buy a Luxury Investment Property
Investment properties are typically looked at as either flips or rentals at the lower end of the financial spectrum. An investor will buy something relatively inexpensively, fix it up and then sell it if the market is right, or rent it out. However, the luxury rental market can be quite lucrative and is often overlooked […]
How Real Estate Buyers Can Find Pocket Listings And Why It’s Important
Did you realize that not every home for sale is listed on the Multiple Listing Service or is searchable via the internet? When you look for your next home, wouldn’t you like to know that you are privy to every single home on the market? Believe it or not, there are some sellers who prefer […]
How Real Estate Sellers Choose An Agent To List Their Home
When a homeowner is contemplating the sale of her home, she immediately begins to think of how she can find the right person to represent the sale. Surprisingly, most sellers don’t return to the real estate agents who helped them with the purchase of the home several years prior. Most agents fail to keep in […]
The Top 12 Reasons Why Print Real Estate Ads Face Extinction
Years ago, before the use of the internet became commonplace for the real estate industry, print ads in local newspapers were the norm. Real estate agents would place ads in the classifieds notifying readers of an upcoming open house or details of their new listing. They would buy space to include pictures of the home […]
5 Reasons Why Real Estate Agents Are Not Like Car Salesmen
Real estate agents routinely get bashed by buyers and sellers for being too pushy, not pushy enough, out for themselves and the almighty dollar. In fact, often consumers will equate real estate agents with the persona of the car salesman. You know, the guy who dresses a little too nice and talks a little too […]
Trash Your Newspaper! Real News Will Be Online
Someday you may want to retire. You will want to live out the rest of your days on a beach off the coast of Wailea and Makena, ready to forget the stress of work and live the sunset of your life the way you want to - wearing nothing but a shirt and shorts, laying […]
How can the Real Estate Newbie beat the “Old Pros”?
Every time I go on a trip and drive by a house and see one of those signs in the front lawn, advertising the sale of the home, I can’t help but smile. These antiquated methods may have been useful once, maybe, but they’ve become so outdated that at this point they are simply wasting […]
