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3 Tips to Combat a Low Appraisal After all the time you spent finding the ideal home, negotiating back and forth with the seller on the price and terms, both you and the seller may be stunned when the appraisal comes in below the purchase agreement's price. While low appraisals aren't as common as they were as we rose from the ashe...

First Time Homebuyer: Steps to Success (Step 1) It may not seem like it, but there is a process to buying a home and taking certain steps in the proper order just about guarantees success. Taken out of order – putting the cart before the horse – the steps are inefficient and counterproductive, and the process becomes chaotic. Remember when yo...

Three Critical Steps in the Home Appraisal Between applying for a home loan and the close of escrow comes a most crucial step: the home appraisal. Since the transaction that got you to this point is one in which a buyer and seller agreed on a price, the appraisal is more likely than not to match the purchase price. In fluctuating markets how...

Inventory is BACK and climbing and is up 24% from 2024! 2022 had buyers scrambling with historic lows in housing inventory… but 2025 is shaping up to be a whole different story.

Look for these 3 Warning Signs when Shopping for a Home We've all heard it, whether it pertains to investing in the stock market, buying a car or a house: 'Caveat emptor,' or 'Let the buyer beware.' Houses have problems, even newly built houses. The problem is that many of these problems can't be seen and are therefore not obvious to even the...