The comment section here isn't working - it's been weeks now!! I have decent people helping me so we'll keep trying. In the meantime, check the competition from the big-time corporate owners of real estate and how they go about selling homes:
Agents will give you all sorts of mumbo-jumbo on why you should hire them, with the most favorite being that they are the "Local Expert". Agents were local tour-guides before the internet - back when buyers would roll into town and plunk down their $72,500 for a house...
The blip in active listings over the last week isn't too concerning and could just be from the weather. The count of active listings is a good indicator of the demand though. During the mega-frenzy conditions from late-2020 through early-2022, you can see that the new...
In the beginning, we recognized that there was still some of the original look from 1997 in this home - and we could have spent some real money to bring it current. Instead, we let our price fix it. The other listing on the street was coming back on the market for...
How many times in your life will you get the chance to purchase a newer 3,372sf one-story with full ocean view on a culdesac in a gated community for $2,175,000 that is Carlsbad-adjacent? In a previous video we shopped for slabs - this is the house:
Our Cedarcrest listing hit the open market on January 25th, and we recieved NINE offers! I gave all of them a chance to bid it up, and ten days later, our sellers had their net proceeds in their account! They moved to Portugal, and yesterday they reported that the...
There is no guidance on how to effectively handle a bidding war. I don't see or hear anything from NAR, CAR, brokerage managers, or team leaders on how listing agents should handle a bidding war, other than to put the offers on a spreadsheet and let the seller decide....
There is a common belief that it takes longer to sell homes that are more expensive. The statistics back it up too. But the belief is a self-fulfilling prophecy that is executed by realtors and sellers every day. It's hard enough to put an attractive price on a...
One house doesn't speak for the whole market but it sure felt like it was already peak selling season this weekend. We had 160+ people attend, received eight offers so far, and it's already $100,000+ over list:
11043 Cedarcrest Way, San Diego, 92121 3 br + den/2.5 ba, 2,000sf YB: 2000 Lot size = 6,163sf HOA = $53/mo (no Mello-Roos) LP = $1,450,000 Check out our new listing in the heart of Sorrento Valley! You'll love this central location that allows for maximum convenience...
