Associate Broker, Long & Foster Real Estate
Waiting for Spring to List Your Home? Are you a Bristow or Gainesville area home owner waiting until spring to list? Why? Right now you have TONS of buyers looking for homes and virtually no competition. If our market sees more sellers list this year, which is anticipated, you will be facing more competition which Read More …
Reaching Out on a Snow Day to Past Clients Today I used my snow day to reach out to my clients from 2020. Normally, I send out their settlement statements from their sales or purchases to them via regular mail in January. That way, they are right there, arriving with other tax preparation documents. However, Read More …
Instant Buyer’s Remorse Being a child of the eighties, I can hear the Asia song, “Heat of the Moment” in my head as I put this post together. In the excitement of getting an offer together in a competitive, multiple offer situation, many Bristow and Gainesville buyers are being swept into making offers that have Read More …
Buyer’s Agent Reputation & Network The other day I saw a buyer on a local Facebook group looking for a Buyer’s Agent. Apparently, the rebate agent she had hired was not doing her any good, probably because the firm she hired works differently than traditional brokerages. They pay agents by the hour to show homes. Read More …
Seller’s Markets Often Create Seller Complacency The Bristow/Gainesville real estate market has so many more buyers than sellers that homes in all kinds of price ranges are getting multiple offers when they hit the market. This type of market condition can lead to seller complacency. The basic idea is that sellers may decide to do Read More …
What Goes into a Great Listing? Not all listing agents do the same job for their sellers. Some listing agents may not even know some of the informational options at their disposal when inputting a listing. It’s important to know what differentiates a great listing from a listing that is so non-descriptive it may be Read More …
Who is a Gigantic Real Estate Geek? Never in my life did I think I would ever be proud of being a geek. I was a smart kid in high school with a bad perm, worse glasses and acne that made my forehead look like a mountain range. I was known as a geek back Read More …
There are Too Many Feelings in Real Estate When I say there are too many feelings in real estate, I’m not talking about the feelings buyers and sellers have. Those feelings are expected and legitimate. They may sometimes get in the way of finding a rational solution to a problem, but they are not the Read More …
The Best Laid Plans… Life has a way of pushing us past our plans. Whether you have planned to list your home and are experiencing personal delays, or your plan to live in a particular area changes suddenly due to personal or professional circumstances, it can be hard to role with the changes. Stress has Read More …
Unveiling the Goal for 2021 If you are new to following my real estate business, one thing you are about to learn is that my yearly goal is shared with my past clients, friends and family publicly. The goal last year (2020) was to sell 32 homes. For the years prior it was to sell Read More …