• Should I Sell My Home Myself?  -We have a video (home page) and prior pages but a new element has crept in.  Many realtors are hurting and may not have fujnds to market their listings as well as in the past, so now that needs to be taken into account, too. 

• How are your real estate taxes set?  - A major expense of owning your own home is your local government's real estate tax.  It usually comes to several thousand dollars each and every year.  I have studied my county's budget for FY 2011 and made some surprising discoveries concerning how our local real estate tax charges are calculated.

• Sell Your Home Yourself? -Thinking of selling your home yourself without a realtor and saving the cost of a commission? More and more people are. A former realtor turned FSBO coach helps you evaluate what it takes to be successful.
• Successfully Selling Your Home WITHOUT a Realtor- I was a realtor for 20+ years and now help run a website for FSBOs (FOR SALE BY OWNER sellers). It's easy to predict success for some FSBOs and failure for others. Would you like to know what the indicators are?
• Wondering About Selling Or Buying Real Estate? -People pondering buying or selling real estate this Spring have some decisions to make. This can be hard, especially for FSBOs working alone. This article suggests a framework for decision making in spite of disagreements among experts as to whether the economy has "turned the corner," or is about to tank even further. You CAN make a good decision in spite of the uncertainty. Find out how.
• Avoiding Surprises At Your Real Estate Settlement When You're The Seller-FSBO sellers are often intimidated by worries about the amount of settlement costs, who pays what, who's responsible for what, and the like. While laws and customs vary from place to place, all settlement agents use the same form to detail the financial transaction from the seller's and buyer's perspectives. This article goes through the entire settlement form and offers examples to help clear up these mysteries.
• Feeling Timid About Buying a House? - The burst in the housing bubble caused much pain. This article discusses basics that home buyers need to know in order to buy real estate confidently in spite of the current situation with mortgages "under water," and rampant foreclosures. It can pay to formulate your own strategy and be contrary to the crowd.
• Real Estate - Buying in a Buyer's Market- Real estate markets across the world have taken a beating like we haven't seen in a very long time if ever. When Dubai is asking to delay its debt payments, you know things are tough all over. Well, it is tough if you are a homeowner or seller. For buyers, this is the market of all markets!
• Real Estate - Why it is a Great Time to Buy-  Any discussion of the real estate market in the last few years has been couched in terms of doom and gloom. From massive inventories to falling prices, there hasn't been much of a bright spot. Having said that, things always turn around at some point and it is hard to imagine a better time to buy than now.
• FSBO Sales - Show it and They Will Come- The web has made selling real estate for sale by owner, better known as a "FSBO" seller, so much easier than it used to be in the old days. That being said, some FSBO sellers shoot themselves in the foot by failing to properly use images to show their home to potential sellers.
• Selling Your House in This Economy- Sometimes we get to sell our residences when we want to and sometimes we have to sell because we really have no choice. A lack of choice is probably the reason for any sale in this market. Regardless of how you get to the decision, the key to selling in this market is to return to the basic, critical steps for any sale. Let's take a look.
• Home Sales Jump- The Good and Bad-The real estate market has been so brutal for so long that it is often hard to find anything to be particularly excited about.  Well, there is finally some great news - home sales jumped over ten percent in October and are now 9.4 percent above 2010 levels. This news, however, comes with some good and bad twists. 
• Real Estate Marketing Tip- Youtube it!- The web has revolutionized the field of real estate like no other niche. Well, maybe excluding online dating, but you get the point. The web has allowed people to point and click instead of driving endless miles wasting time and money on the weekend. While most people know they should market online now, there is an additional step most fail to take. 
• Real Estate - The Relationship Between Housing and Jobs-The Great Recession is officially over based on a technical analysis by economist. For the rest of us, it feels like it is still here front and center. The biggest issue at this point is the status of the job market. This is particularly important when considering the relationship between the housing market and employment.
• Questions FSBO Buyers Need to Ask-Let's face it. When we evaluate something, we go about it by asking, and answering (or getting answers to), a string of questions. The quality of our evaluation is dependant on the quality of our questions. Buyers of FSBO homes can get some good buys right now, but without the help of a Realtor, they need to know what questions to pose.
• For Sale by Owner - Realtor Secrets 101 For FSBOs-It's no secret that today's real estate market is tough.  Worried sellers are trying to sell their homes themselves.  Home property values are down, and they desperately want to save the cost of a real estate commission, so they try to market their properties as FSBOs (for sale by owner sellers).  Makes sense, right?  Yes, "if." 
• For Sale by Owner - Realtor Secrets 201 For FSBOs - After you've covered the basics of getting your property in good condition, pricing it right, and advertising it on one or more online multiple listing services for FOR SALE BY OWNER properties, what other secrets do the behaviors of skillful Realtors offer up to FSBOs?  Let's look at the next things on the agenda.
• For Sale by Owner - Realtor Secrets 301 For FSBOs-In "Realtor Secrets 101," we talked about the physical condition of your property when it goes on the market, realistic pricing, and making Internet marketing of your home effective. "Realtor Secrets 201" dealt with making good use of real estate signs, brochures, and enlisting the help of neighbors. Anyone following those suggestions will have the basics of a good multi-media marketing campaign. (Each of those articles can be found on this article site.) Now let's talk about how to integrate your existing marketing and add to it to increase it's effectiveness by borrowing more Realtor secrets. 
• Marketing Your Property-Mistakes by FSBOs and Realtors- When will Realtors "get it" and stop trying to keep information on close hold? For that matter, when will sellers get it? Whether they're FSBOs (for sale by owner sellers) or working with a Realtor, sellers tend to complain about nosy neighbors, and try to withhold information, too. This is not wise when you're marketing your property. Let me tell you about a case in point.
•  Should You Buy A Fixer-Upper In A Slow Market? Flip that home and make big bucks. Buy a fixer-upper and clean up. This is the common theme of more than a few television shows and they make it look pretty easy. The real questions, of course, are whether this can actually be done and whether you should be doing it now. 
• Photographing Your Home Before Listing it Online -When it comes to real estate, the internet is a beautiful thing. It has revolutionized the real estate industry. Instead of spending countless hours [and dollars in gas] driving around looking at homes, the vast majority of buyers now sit and click through listings on sites.
  
• Evaluating Neighborhoods When Home Buying-Location, location and location - it is the first rule of real estate that we all learn. While we have all had this rule hammered into our collective psyche, another rule is arising in this current dismal real estate market - the look twice rule.
  
• What Happens To My Mortgage When The Bank Fails? To say the current real estate market is a mess would be a slight understatement. We haven't seen problems like this since the Great Depression. This is particularly true with banks, which are failing or on the cusp of doing so.
 

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