If you haven’t heard about Flat Fee realtors (AKA Flat Fee MLS, discount rate brokers, flat fee realty), you should definitely check it out. When selling a home, flat fee realtors could help you so much more than traditional realtors. Realex Realtor went even further, to provide Full-Service Listing Packages for a flat fee, to …
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By: G. M. Filisko What’s a rule of thumb to determine how much mortgage you can afford? There’s no one rule, but these four tips will tell you. Home ownership should make you feel safe and secure, and that includes financially. Be sure you can afford your home by calculating how much of a mortgage you …
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By: Amy Howell Hirt Find out how much it costs to remodel a kitchen, item by item, so you never spend more than you need to. How much is that kitchen remodel going to cost you? That’s a hard number to nail down. It’s not like you can cost compare on Amazon. Instead, you need to research, create a budget, and …
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By: Wendy Paris Preparing and keeping a fully stocked home emergency preparedness kit could be the key to your family’s safety if disaster strikes. You can’t prevent disasters, but you can take charge of how you respond if you’re prepared. The first step is putting together an emergency preparedness kit. What should go in an emergency …
By: Leanne Potts Technology and good-old-fashioned creativity are helping agents, buyers, and sellers abide by COVID-19 health and safety practices while getting deals done. Some buyers are touring houses virtually. Others visit in person while remaining at least six feet from their agent. Sellers are hosting open houses on Facebook Live. Appraisers are doing drive-by valuations. …
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Home inspections have its limitations. Better understand what you can and cannot expect from inspections when you buy a home.
Make sure your home is free from coronavirus during home showings. What cleaners to use? Where needs more cleaning? All you need to know
Coronavirus mortgage relief measures are being put in place to ensure homeowners have options if they’re unable to make payments. What you need to know.
Staging your home can make it much more competitive when you sell. Follow our complete room by room guide to improve your listing and sell faster!
Decluttering is the most important step when preparing to sell your home. Follow these 10 simple steps. It will greatly enhance your home’s appeal.
An insider’s take – Is your realtor contributing or detracting from your real estate buy or sale? How to tell the good ones from the bad?
What’s trending now? We asked several designers and home builders what’s in. Here are 10 design trends that are on the rise.
Flat fee real estate agent can save you money, big time. What are the pros and cons and flat fee realtors? How to negotiate realtor commission?
We’ve gathered 12 easy home maintenance tasks for this fall. Follow them one by one to prepare for a comfortable and cozy winter!
It’s a hot-and-cold picture. Illinois, as well as the Chicago Metro Area, home sales dipped more than 6% in August 2019. On the other hand, median price saw bigger increase than previous months. Statewide median price was $214,000, a 7% increase compared to $200,000 a year ago. What does it tell us? From the perspective …
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Many buyers believe that the path buying a great home is purchasing a foreclosure. But often, buyers are misinformed about the realities of the process.
Landlords usually don’t want to have pets in their rental properties. But it’s getting more frequent that tenants bring service animals or emotional support animals. Should you accept it? Deny it? Make changes for it? We have to follow the Fair Housing Act. I read the most recent legal low-down and summarize it here for …
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“Recession” seems to be on many people’s minds these days. The memory of the 2008 market collapse is still fresh. The question we want to ask is: Will the housing market collapse like what happened last time? The market has been extremely volatile last month, aggravated by the uncertainties about the trade war. And for …
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Illinois homebuyers lifted the real estate market back into positive territory in July. Both sales price and quantity increased compared to the same time in 2019. Summer selling season appears to be ending with a flourish. Median time to sell a home averaged 43 days, down 2.3% from a year ago. Available inventory totaled 59,600 …
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What may seem like a good idea, often isn’t. Here are 15 common mistakes new homeowners often make that prove it. 1. Get Rid of Your Only Tub If resale value is important to you, don’t get rid of your only bathtub no matter how dreamy that walk-in shower looks. It will make it harder to sell …
