Article by G.M. Filisko HouseLogic.com While you’d like to get the best price for your home, consider our six reasons to reduce your home price. These six signs may be telling you it’s time to lower your price. 1. You’re drawing few lookers You get the most interest in your home right after you put it [...]

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If you are thinking about selling your home, you may want to consider ‘staging’ rooms in order to give potential buyers the best impression of your home.  Watch this video to see how a little paint and some rearranging can really transform a room and show your home’s true value. Maybe you’re a DIYer, but [...]

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Sellers, in this market of declining prices you can keep lowering your prices and never get a sale. It feels like you are continually punished in spite of your best intentions. The frustration keeps building inside of you. You might commit afresh to a new price only to find that instead of being rewarded for [...]

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Article From BuyAndSell.HouseLogic.com By: Marcie Geffner Published: June 10, 2010 Consider before you ignore or outright refuse a very low purchase offer for your home. A counteroffer and negotiation could turn that low purchase offer into a sale. You just received a purchase offer from someone who wants to buy your home. You’re excited and [...]

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Article by Houselogic.com By: Alyson McNutt English Published: September 30, 2009 Make spring cleaning less of a chore by following these smarter–and mostly greener–tips for this annual rite of homeownership. Bathrooms When it’s time to get down and dirty, many people start with the bathroom. Allen Rathey, founder of The Housekeeping Channel, says removing mineral deposits, rust, [...]

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This is the third article in this Lots & Land series. These charts are the Active Listings and Pending or Bumpable Sales (agreed upon offer but not closed). Lots & Land – Active Competition in Yamhill County Lots & Land – Active Competition in Surrounding Counties The first list looks at the active competition within [...]

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This is the second article in this Lots & Land series. Read Part 1 here. I am providing you with actual sales data below for sold land in Yamhill County so we can take a fresh look at the market. I recommend looking at the 3 year attachments first and then zeroing in on the recent solds. [...]

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One of the most negatively affected property categories during the past 3+ years is buildable land. In the early and mid part of this past decade, I used to say that if I had enough buildable small parcels in Yamhill County, I could sell one every day. Since the market began to deteriorate in summer [...]

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Article From HouseLogic.com By: Caralee Adams Published: February 03, 2011 Painting walls red–or any bold color–makes a definite statement, which you may want to take back someday. A tinted primer will cover your mistake. Painting walls red is less forgiving than, say, painting walls Linen White. Make a mistake, and you’ll feel like you’re dining [...]

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By: G. M. Filisko, Published: February 10, 2010 Have a plan for reviewing purchase offers so you don’t let the best slip through your fingers. 1. Understand the process All offers are negotiable, as your agent will tell you. When you receive an offer, you can accept it, reject it, or respond by asking that terms be [...]

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