Water Cooler Real Estate

Your home is listed on the market, now you receive an offer. Great News! In this Episode, The Insiders ask Sellers to consider the many terms of the offer, but as important, the current market factors that may affect the overall value of the offer.  Each of these issues can and will affect the potential for an accepted offer, as well as a successful transaction that ultimately best meets the Sellers needs.

Buyers and Sellers across the country are wondering what to expect in Real Estate for 2019.  No crystal ball here, but The Insiders discuss thoughts and forecasts from national Real Estate Experts, as to the direction the Real Estate Market will head over the next few months.

Boom or Bust?  What to Expect in the coming months for the Real Estate Market in Beautiful Portland, Oregon!  In this Special Portland Episode, The Insiders offer a little market history, some of the current market factors, and a glimpse into the future of the PDX Real Estate Market.

So, you have decided to sell your home.  Naturally, one of your first steps in preparing your home to sell is going to be DIY projects throughout the house.  In this episode, The Insiders discuss which of those projects you should do, which projects will add value, and other projects you should avoid!

Every Buyer would LOVE to get a $Million home for $250,000.  In today's episode, The Insiders discuss 3 easy steps to help Buyers make the Home Buying Process as fruitful and as painless as possible.  Buyers need Expectations, Objectives, Goals, Prioritizing & Protections!

Homes aren't SOLD online, but they are Eliminated!  In this week's episode, The Insiders discuss that often times Less is truly More when presenting home photos online.  When Sellers understand that the SOLE object of marketing and promoting a home online is to get Buyers through the door, it then makes sense to be very particular with the photos we are utilizing to attract these Buyers. 

If you are going to be buying a home in the near future, this week's episode is VITAL! The Insiders touch on 5 easy steps to save you Thousands of Dollars in your upcoming purchase.

As an important Real Estate Mogul (Dru Wilkinson) often said, "Paying Rent is just Throwing Money Down a Rathole!" In this week's episode, The Insiders compare and discuss Rent Payments vs Mortgage Payments, and how the Tax Benefits can allow Home Owners to justify the larger payments, as well as Establish a basis for Future Wealth.

When you are out looking for a new home, one way to compare one home vs another is Price/sf.  Unfortunately, often times, Buyers trick themselves in to thinking that a lower price/sf is always better, and sometimes Buyers ultimately end up giving price/sf too much weight in their home purchase decision, which can really hurt their enjoyment factor down the road.  In this episode, The Insiders explain Price/sf, and discuss when this valuation is meaningful, versus when it should simply be thrown out of the home purchase decision making process. 

You have found a home, you are now working with the Lender to get all of the financing documentation in order. In this week's episode, The Insiders welcome Robin Weirich of SecurityNational Mortgage Company to discuss the Top 10 or so Pitfalls and Blunders that Buyers mistakenly make that will potentially sabotage their home purchase.

How do death, ghosts & crimes affect home Values and market times. In most states, Sellers are required by law to disclose known physical defects in a home for sale.  However, in this week's episode, The Insiders discuss the concept of Baseless Psychological Factors such as ghosts, spirits, and deaths in homes, and how, and to what extent these issues can potentially affect the home values.

For Your Listening Pleasure during the Holidays, The Insiders offer Five Quick Buying Tips to make sure you're prepared for your upcoming home purchase, and to ensure an all around pleasant Home Buying Experience.  

You never get a second chance to make a First Impression! In this episode, The Insiders talk to Sellers about 10 great ideas to improve the curb appeal of your home, in order to maximize the first impression for prospective Buyers.

Are you considering Buying a home?  Have you met with a lender to discuss financing? In this week's episode, The Insiders welcome Robin Weirich of SecurityNational Mortgage Company to discuss purchase preparation subjects such as credit reports and scores, credit line balances & limits, budgeting, and Debt to Income ratios.  For maximum benefits, Buyers should really consider meeting with a lender up to 6 months ahead of their purchase.

What to Expect when you are Inspecting!   In this week's episode, The Insiders welcome in our guest Gordon Tolbert of AmeriSpec Inspection Services, to talk about the home inspection portion of the Home Buyer's vital due diligence period.  Gordon discusses the inspection process, inspection tips, tricks,and the types of issues your home inspector may find throughout the house you are considering for purchase.

Hopefully this has never happened to you, but if it has, there are very few things worse than when the sewer backs up into your home.  In this week's WCRE episode, The Insiders welcome Greg Bailey of Apex Home Inspections, as they discuss the Dirt on Sewer Inspections.  Since the industry is mostly unregulated, there are many situations and opportunities for misleading and unfortunately, sometimes deceitful reporting.  A couple of take-aways are, attending the inspection, and hiring a company that conducts the inspections, but does not do the potential repairs. 

As a Seller, the best scenario is when you get multiple offers competing with each other for your home.  Sometimes, one or more of the offers may have what is called an Escalation Clause. In this episode, The Insiders explain the Escalation Clause and discuss how best to evaluate these offers and construct your strategy and your Seller response to these types of offers.  

In the perfect Seller situation, once your home goes on the market, you hope to get an offer within a relatively short period of time.  Even better, is when you actually receive multiple offers.  In this week's episode, The Insiders discuss Evaluating Multiple Offers.  They discuss ranking offers by Net Value, but also considering the other valuable terms of each offer.  In addition, The Insiders suggest using a Multiple Offer Procedure Form, requesting the highest and best from each Buyer.  In addition, consider sending a counter offer to the most solid offer presented.  Ideally, you strive for the highest sale price, but also want to benefit from the best combination of all other meaningful terms.

This week, The Insiders offer tips and advice for Sellers, helping them prepare their home when their Real Estate agent is having an Open House.  It is best to appeal to all of the senses, and The Insiders offer some easy, yet effective ideas.

In this week's episode, The Insiders discuss the mindset of a Buyer, when they have received a counter offer from the Seller in a Real Estate Negotiation. The Insiders outline strategies on how to address the most common terms in a Buyer's Counteroffer, with the intent of getting a Seller Counter or Seller Acceptance.