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Posted in General Benoni News, Selling on Sep 29th, 2008
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 [...]
Posted in Interesting all sorts, Selling, Staying out of trouble, my experiences on Sep 15th, 2008
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 [...]
Posted in Selling, market trends, my experiences on Sep 9th, 2008
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 [...]
Posted in Interesting all sorts, Selling on Sep 4th, 2008
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 [...]
Posted in Hobbies, Interesting all sorts, Investing, Selling, market trends, my experiences on Aug 20th, 2008
photo credit: Tambako the Jaguar
There are many things a Benoni home owner can do to increase the value of their Benoni home. This can be done inside and out, from do-it-yourself for the smaller projects to hiring a contractor for the larger jobs.
You can give your home a face lift a little at a [...]
