http://sell.housechick.com Sell your Tucson House - Information, Advice, Marketing Plan, Listing Agent Mon, 20 Oct 2008 17:30:05 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I showed a home the other day that has been on the market - continuously - for 899 days.  Which begs the question: why hasn’t this home sold? Two big reasons. 1) It’s overpriced for the condition of the home.  It’s a partial remodel, with a bad paint job, missing baseboards, some ... http://sell.housechick.com/sell-tucson-real-estate/the-camera-phone-house/ Question from the audience: What’s your negotiating style? Answer: Whichever way you’re most comfortable with. I like to discuss negotiating styles with my clients before we get too far along in either the home buying or home selling process. Some folks are very aggressive, and aren’t happy with the ... http://sell.housechick.com/sell-tucson-real-estate/negotiating-and-real-estate/ Had a little fun with some numbers and graphs today. Two things to show you. First, this is a graph of average price per square foot for Continental Ranch from the start of 2004 through today, sold single family homes only: You can see the Continental Ranch market peaked ... http://sell.housechick.com/sell-tucson-real-estate/continental-ranch-how-home-values-have-changed/ In honor of Talk Like A Pirate Day, I bring you this undersea adventure room.   And yes, the ceiling is painted in the water motif too.   I’m sure the child who lived in this room adored the dolphin and all the custom paint.  But when it came time to sell, the owners ... http://sell.housechick.com/sell-tucson-real-estate/take-the-memories-but-don%e2%80%99t-leave-the-paint/ I have a client considering a home that doesn’t have any covered parking.  Nice house, but the owners had a big living room built instead of a carport.  They claim that a garage or carport could be built over to one side of the house, but there’s really no guarantee ... http://sell.housechick.com/sell-tucson-real-estate/preliminary-home-inspections-and-research/ If it takes a whole page of instructions for an agent to get into your house, then you should consider fixing the problem.  There’s nothing more detrimental to a buyer’s first impression than having a hard time getting into a house, to be fighting a lock or sticky door.  Already, ... http://sell.housechick.com/sell-tucson-real-estate/bad-first-impressions/ Last week, we talked about buying a home with little or no money down.  Here’s another aspect we didn’t cover in that discussion, from a Seller’s perspective. Here’s the common scenario: let’s say you just accepted an offer and agreed to pay 3% in down payment and an additional 3% in ... http://sell.housechick.com/sell-tucson-real-estate/when-you-can%e2%80%99t-just-throw-money-at-the-problem/ Found in the recent search terms: Should I take my house off the market for a month? I don’t know.  But here’s the discussion that comes to mind:  Do you think the market is going to change that much in a month?  Real estate markets tend to move more like glaciers ... http://sell.housechick.com/sell-tucson-real-estate/taking-your-home-off-the-market/ Summer has spung (or does Summer sum?). The weather man says it’s going to be 107 this week. And I don’t mind the temperature, really.  You live in the desert long enough, you learn how to deal with it, how to keep cool. However, it is time to issue my annual summer ... http://sell.housechick.com/sell-tucson-real-estate/can-we-get-a-little-ac-action-in-here/ A quick note on a busy day: Being the nicest home on the block is really not the best thing in term of your home’s value. Think about it this way: would you rather pay for a $200k home in an area of $100k homes, or would you rather buy a ... http://sell.housechick.com/sell-tucson-real-estate/being-the-nicest-home-on-the-block/