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Eight Things to Finally Get Rid of Before You Move

Congratulations! Your home is officially sold! After the bubbly is popped and the celebration has ended, some reality sets in. You now have to pack up your entire home. To make this task less daunting, we have compiled a list …
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What is a Listing Agent and What Do they Do?

Once you decide to sell your home, you need to determine who you will work with to sell it. But just what is a listing agent? A listing agent is a professional sales associate who markets your home for sale. …
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How Not to Decorate Your Home for Halloween if You Are Selling

Halloween is a time for fun, spooky decorations and some scares! But what if you are trying to sell your home? Then the decorations might be something to keep boxed up until next year. Not saying you can’t put out …
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Home Buyers Want One-Stop Shopping

A recent National Association of REALTORS® (NAR) study revealed that a vast majority of home buyers want to work with a company that offers a full-range of real estate services for one-stop shopping. 78% of home buyers said that one-stop …
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2016 Best Home Trends For ROI

We all know the adage, “form follows function” and that is exactly where today’s home trends are heading. Homeowners are now requesting that each space serve its intended purpose; the days of just-for-show extravagance are over. Both millennial first-time home …
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Eight Exterior Paint Colors to Help You Sell Your Home

Getting ready to sell your home usually requires some extra steps. Maybe you need to stage your home or paint the interior, or maybe you chose an eggplant purple for the outside of your home and now realize that color …
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Ready, Set, Sell!

Seasons may be changing but the market is still hot! It is still a great time to sell your home and make the change you have been waiting for. CoreLogic’s latest Equity Report reported that 91.1% of all mortgaged properties …
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A Seller’s Market Still Means you Have to Sell your Home!

Selling your home during a seller’s market means that your home will fly off of the shelf right? Not so fast…there are plenty of things that you should and should not be doing to make sure you give your home …
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What Sellers Should Know About Comparables

When looking to sell your home, your Shorewest, REALTOR® will be looking at quite a few different factors to see where your home should fall price wise. It is important to look at comparables or comps to understand fully how …
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How Important is Staging Your Home?

Picture yourself meeting someone to buy their used car. You get in to test drive it and there is junk everything! Decals on the windows, a lei hanging from the rearview mirror, trash in the middle console. You can’t even …
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