Monthly Archives: August 2013
Knowing When (and how) to Appraise Your Home
Low appraisals kill real estate deals. If you are buying a home using a mortgage, refinancing, or selling your home, the home appraisal is a major component in determining a home’s value. Appraisals are used to determine the contract price for listing a home for sale and lenders use the appraisal value to determine the... Read More
The Beneifts of a Home Inspection
Home inspections are visual inspections of the structure and other aspects that make up a home in order to find things that are not in good shape and find parts of a home that are not performing as they should. As an inspector checks out your home and finds a problem or an area that... Read More
How to Spot an Overpriced Home
When searching for a home, regardless of the market, one must be prepared to recognize what is reasonable and unreasonable when it comes to purchasing a home. Buying a home is the biggest investment that a buyer will ever make, so of course you would want to pay a fair price. Sometimes homeowners include sentimentality... Read More