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Ron Stone
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What are the right things to do to make your home as marketable as possible? So many sellers just do it wrong. Here are some tips for doing it right in order of importance. 1. Street appeal is really a do or die (sorry for the drama) issue when you are...
If a couple has been getting together with some regularity they might begin to think of making a more permanent arrangement. Or maybe you are thinking that way and you want to know if the other person is, too. There are some things that indicate a rela...
A lot of people who are looking for a home miss a lot of good places. Maybe they don't like the furniture and wallpaper and paint colors. In their disapproval of the décor they miss the important characteristics of the property completely. They cannot pi...
The most important thing a home seller must do to resell their home successfully is make your house have exterior appeal. We've written about it many times. You have to make potential buyers want to come inside.But what do you do after you get...
A common motivating factor for homeowners to decide to sell and move is a little addition to the household. And Baby makes keeping a show house perfect very difficult! We once saw a three bedroom house with two bedrooms full of ONE child’s stuff plus MO...
Everyone likes great kitchens, even people who don't cook. Kitchens are also really important to how well a house sells. The big complication is how much work is the right amount to get a great, attractive kitchen that will help sell your house when the t...
The large investment gains realized in the past few years in some housing markets have caused many people to lose sight of the real purpose of buying a house. What’s missing?The primary function that building serves is that it is...
Selling a home can be incredibly stressful and difficult, especially if you need to do it quickly. It’s possible that some houses in some markets in this country could linger on Multi-lists for years! So, what should you do? The first thing you s...
Many people have created, through design or by just letting things evolve a pretty stressful daily life. Many of the daily stress factors are small but cumulatively they are quite heavy. Let me name just a couple of examples. One would be trying to accomp...
It sounds like a good idea. Find a house that needs updating, fix it up and sell it for lots of money. You see programs about it all the time on TV. They make it look easy and profitable out there in La La Land. It looks like fun, too, especially to peopl...
Yes, this is BIG news. Sadly, it’s also old news that regular news agencies don’t bother covering. Women and other medical patients are being tortured every day. Who thought this stuff up and WHY are we tolerating it in a modern world? It’...
Many small businesses today are taking the lead from the big dogs with aggressive cost cutting to grow their bottom line. And with our wide-open trade policies, even small companies can tap into the cheap foreign goods markets to facilitate this often, di...
Many, many mortgage applications crash when the applicant either knowingly or unknowingly omits something when completing their application setting them up for a future crash. Unfortunately, the resulting crash may not occur until well into underwriting. ...
You've seen some of the shows on TV that talk about curb appeal. It's really important. I have owned eight houses. Six were really cute. They had rock, and landscaping, porches, and nice trim. They were pretty different otherwise. Two were split levels, o...
Protect yourself and your investment by doing some things that could pay off big down the road when you are looking for the right properties to buy. Real estate investors must be very careful and knowledgeable in order to protect their financial invest...