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Paint Sets the Mood of a Room

By tylerPosted on November 20, 2020Posted in Buyer Tips, Home Owner Tips, Seller TipsTagged buyahome, buyertips, buyingahouse, buyingtips, colors, homebuyertips, homebuying, homesellertips, homeselling, paint, paintforfeeling, paintroom, roomcolor, sellahome, sellertips, sellingahouse

When you’re considering repainting, take some time to intentionally decide how you want the room to feel. Is this room supposed to invigorate you? Excite You? Does this room need to calm you down? Do you need to concentrate in this room? Over half of the human brain is dedicated to simply interpreting visual information, […]

Haunted Houses & Other Stigmatized Property

By tylerPosted on October 30, 2020Posted in Buyer Tips, Seller Tips, TipsTagged aids, buyahome, buyertips, buyingahouse, buyingtips, disclosure, haunted, hiv, homebuyertips, homebuying, homesellertips, homeselling, meth, murder, sellahome, sellerdisclosure, sellertips, sellingahouse, stigmatizedhouse, stigmatizedproperty, stigmatizedrealestate, suicide

Hypothetical question: What does a seller need to disclose about an HIV-positive, meth-cooking (and using) criminal who murdered their spouse in the house, committed suicide in the house, and then haunts the house the seller wants to sell? The answer? Nothing. The seller doesn’t legally have to disclose anything, though it may be a good […]

Should I Still Buy, Even If the Market Might Drop?

By tylerPosted on September 18, 2020Posted in Buyer TipsTagged buyahome, buyertips, buyingahouse, creditjitters, homebuyertips, homebuying, marketjitters, wisepurchasing

This question comes up more after the market has been going up for a while. People worry about the proverbial “bubble” housing market. What if you get “caught” buying a house, and the market falls out from under it? So should you buy? The answer is YES! And here’s why. Let’s talk about a few […]

Credit Scores 101

By tylerPosted on September 12, 2020Posted in Buyer TipsTagged buyahome, buyertips, buyingahouse, credit101, creditscore, homebuyertips, homebuying, realestatelender

Lenders want to know your credit score when you’re getting ready to buy, but why? What is a credit score, and why do lenders care? Well, a credit score is a number between 300 and 850 that indicates how likely you are to repay a debt. Less than 1% of Americans score below 470, and […]