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North Oakland County Homes- The Faster They Sell The Higher They Sell For The quick sales tend to be the appraisals I sweat out the most. A well priced house will sell quickly. The best prices I’ve gotten for sellers have been the quickest sales. Last year I listed a 4 bedroom colonial in Wyngate, [...]

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What Sets Me Apart From Other Southeast Michigan Listing Agents? I’ve been showing houses quite a bit lately and have noticed some disturbing trends. Many of these trends are confined to foreclosure listings; or at least I thought the incomplete listings with no yard sign out front and no electricity on in the house was [...]

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Why I don’t List Short Sale Listings The title is off a little- if you are a past client or a friend I will consider taking your short sale listing, but you have to play by my rules- no exception. And those rules will be the topic of another post. For the most part I [...]

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I want to start out by stating this post IS NOT for the potential Clarkston short sale seller. Short sales, and what I like to call a normal sale, are 2 completely different animals. Most Clarkston MI short sale sellers NEED to sell and are upside down on their mortgage. The regular seller may or [...]

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Price, Location and Exposure??? NOT!!! It’s ALL About PRICE! If you are trying to sell your Clarkston MI home in today’s real estate market you have probably read that it’s all location location location. Or possibly price, location and exposure. That last one is one third correct. It’s all about price. Crappy location? Location can [...]

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Live in the Clarkston School District? GREAT Time to Sell! The average sales price for Clarkston MI homes is up 7.6% from last year and up 12.2% from 2009. Unit sales are up about 2 1/2% from last year and up over 22% from 2009. Distressed sales in Clarkston MI have been on the decline, [...]

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I was talking to a couple of agents at the office yesterday and one of them was complaining about our purchase agreement asking for the seller to pay for the well and septic inspection (if the house is on well and/or septic). He was saying that perfectly good offers were getting countered because of this [...]

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Great News for Oxford MI Homeowners/Sellers! I was just finishing up a market analysis for a home I will be listing this evening in Oxford MI. The house I’m listing is a very nice home, but sales in Oxford haven’t been bouncing back like they have in the Clarkston area. Unit sales are up slightly [...]

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Does the Buyer Have a Right to a Home Inspection? No. You have the right to bear arms, you have the right to free speech and assembly… There is no right to a home inspection in a real estate transaction. There is, however, a legal obligation to live up to the terms of the fully [...]

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Clarkston MI- Are Final Water Bills Settled At Close or Possession? The question above, or variations of it, was a search term that was used a few times to find my seller blog this week. It’s a good question. After selling real estate for a while it’s easy to forget that most sellers only go [...]

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