These kind of stray away from blanket misconceptions and are more opinion… based, I feel, in observed circumstance… It is also a two-fer. One for sellers and one for buyers.
These kind of stray away from blanket misconceptions and are more opinion… based, I feel, in observed circumstance… It is also a two-fer. One for sellers and one for buyers.
I run across this a lot. I am NOT a super lister, listing every house I can for sale. I just want to make sure that you know that up front. In fact, I don’t list every house I can. I turn down listings. And what I am about the say is going to make some agents unhappy…
Continuing on my series of common misconceptions of, about and regarding real estate and the real estate industry, let’s talk about real estate agents…
It is a common misconception that all real estate agents are effectively the same. And it couldn’t be
Many agents and sellers think that one of the ways to create interest is to give the listing an “air of mystery” by tightly controlling how much info they release… thinking less is better.
Let me tell you… that
(On LilburnDwellings.com, I have just started a series about the top ten misconceptions buyers and sellers have about home values. This is part of that series.)
On GwinnettGarageGuy.com I recently wrote a post about price and value. My friend Cindy Jones made a comment about a home with a converted basement that reminded me about this particular misconception… (BTW, Cindy is a great agent, and while we may slightly disagree about this particular issue, I would not hesitate in the least to send her a referral.)
Her comment was indirectly about a home with a finished basement being worth