Seller Tips

March 17, 2008

Foreign Buyers in Bonita Springs | Ready, Willing and ... Fable

 

The Illusion of Foreign Buyers

The Illusion of Foreign Buyer's in the Bonita Springs Real Estate Market

The headlines make for great copy - "The British Are Coming", "International Buyers Flock to Florida", "Foreign Buyers Scoop up Florida Real Estate". There has been enough coverage of the alleged foreign invasion to actually convince the …

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March 15, 2008

No-Show Agents & Ticked Off Homeowners

Waiting for Buyers in Bonita Springs

Bonita Springs Homeowners Waiting for a No-Show

Would you ever not show up at the dentist, your mother's house or your sister's house after you said you were on the way? I didn't think so. Who would do that? That would be just wrong, rude and inconsiderate, right?

Every day …

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March 11, 2008

Your Bonita Springs Home | Priced Ripe or Rotting on The Vine?

Bouganvilla

Wave Goodbye To "Season"

If you're a seller of real estate with lofty goals of getting your home sold this season, you need to suck it up and take action now or your home just might rot on the vine over summer. We've got an early Easter, this year so …

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March 8, 2008

A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words

The Vines

Why Would You Want to Keep This View Secret?

Real estate for sale + photos = sold real estate.

The basis of this article is to tell you that if you are a seller of real estate in Bonita Springs, Estero or SW Florida your home has to be …

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March 6, 2008

Jumping Through Flaming Hoops

Jumping through hoops

Now, if there was just some way to wrap barbed wire around the hoop, too.

In a tough market, the person that makes the extra effort gets the reward. You seemed to be making extra effort.

How nice. Upon calling another agent for further information about a property, we deduced …

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Feb. 28, 2008

Bonita Springs & Estero Florida Flood Zone Map

FEMA

 

UPDATED LEE COUNTY FLOOD MAPS HERE: Identifying Bonita Springs Flood Zone | Map

You can use the FEMA maps by reading this:

If you're thinking of buying Bonita Springs real estate and you're interested in finding out which communities are or are not in a flood zone, you can …

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Feb. 20, 2008

Why Do Homeowner Associations Have Rules, Restrictions & Regulations?


Miromar Lakes Home

Deed Restrictions | Homeowner Association Rules & Regulations | HOA Guidelines

For many buyers of real estate it is important to know and ask questions about restrictions that will effect owners, tenants and guest living in homes within a home owner association. First, Restrictive Covenants are created for protection of …

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Feb. 18, 2008

Why Your Bonita Springs Home is NOT Selling


Bonita Springs Prize Fighter

Sellers, Is Your Home a Prize Fighter or a Bench Warmer?

Today I will be out with a lovely couple from Wisconsin looking for their Florida home. I try to stay upbeat and not hyper critical of what other agents consider "marketing" but it's a nightmare, plain and simple. It …

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Feb. 16, 2008

Hateration of Real Estate Agents

 

I'm a sweet little cupcake

Which is Worse Being a Chic or a Real Estate Agent?

Saturday open houses with a bright blue sky are usually a bust, but today I actually had more than a few visitors. I ran out of flyers, as a matter of fact. Traffic was good in spite of …

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Feb. 15, 2008

What's My Bonita Springs Home Worth - Really

 

Zesti

Investigating Automated Home Valuation in Southwest Florida's Turbulent Market

Zestimates® are estimates... they are just for "fun" but are consumers really, really clear on the fact that it's not reliable? - Matt Rathbun via Twitter

Matt said what some of us in the real estate industry might have …

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