Archive for September, 2008

Sellers should be serious


Offers to purchase submitted from buyers supported with guarantees of 100% bonds and backed up with their own costs should be taken very seriously by sellers.
Gail Compton, broker owner of RE/MAX Tricolor, believes good opportunities to sell, when weighed against the current market conditions, are being lost because too many sellers remain overly fixated on [...]

Monday, September 29th, 2008

Sellers please get out of your house, so I can sell it.


photo credit: Kevin Lawver
I understand you can’t leave your Benoni home for every viewing, but when you can’t please try and stay out of the way.
I don’t mean to offend anyone but a seller being present during a viewing does more harm than good. Sellers are always worried that the Estate Agents don’t mention [...]

Monday, September 15th, 2008

Quick 2 tips of the day to sell your house fast


Hi all.
I was out listing a beautiful property in Crystal Park today, I actually stopped the seller from listing her Crystal Park property with an estate agent for a sole mandate  heavily over priced.
 
You see I believe there are 2 reasons a property doesn’t sell.
1) Lazy Agent
2) Over priced.
Most of the time it is number [...]

Tuesday, September 9th, 2008

An interesting way of getting your home sold


I am always looking for ways of promoting listings and ways of getting properties sold.
In our current market conditions only a fool would not look for a way to differentiate himself from the crowd, but I will leave that story for another day. The reason  for this post is not to tell you how different I am [...]

Thursday, September 4th, 2008

How to buy a house in Benoni Part 1


Real estate investments outperform any other investment vehicle over a long period of time.
Everyone says invest in real estate as soon as you can. The problem is no one bothers to tell you where to start.
 
In this Post I am going to tell you where to start and hopefully where you will end up.
1)The first [...]

Thursday, September 4th, 2008