My wife and I were watching HGTV this weekend. We were watching “Love It Or List It”. During one of the commercial breaks I saw an odd commercial. Have you ever seen something on TV or in a movie where you can spot something fake? For example, having some experience with music, I can always […]
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I was talking to a friend of mine the other day and she told me that her son was taking classes to become a real estate agent. Knowing a little bit about the son, I was surprised that he was thinking about a career in real estate sales. Would I ever advise someone to get
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As you begin your search for a new home in St. Louis, just remember that patience is an advantage for the St. Louis home buyer. This may run counter to what you believe, but I will demonstrate with an example. Agent Mr. Quick, Buy a Home Now Let’s say you are represented by real estate
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One of the most important things I can do as a Realtor is getting couples on the same page to buy a home. You’d think that everyone comes to the home buying process with one goal in mind; to buy a home. That hasn’t been my experience, however. Home buyers usually have to work through
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If you’ve been living under a rock in St. Louis, maybe you don’t know that we are supposed to have many inches of snow from Friday afternoon until Sunday. How many inches? No one really knows, could be as little as 0 inches, and could be as many as 7 inches. The amount has been
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We all have places in St. Louis where we’d like to live. Sometimes, we can just use a direction, North, South, etc. We can be a little more specific if we want Affton, Webster Groves, or Clayton. Oftentimes, we can narrow it down to a single neighborhood. This is where things can get tricky for
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The other day I was looking through some old sales in a neighborhood. As I looked at the bottom of each listing, the names of the real estate agents weren’t familiar to me. You might not know it, but work as a real estate agent isn’t as glamorous as you might see on T.V. There
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The other day I was driving along a somewhat busy road in South County on my way to a listing appointment. I happened to see a real estate sign in someone’s yard. It just had a name, and then said real estate expert. This was a rather strange moment for me. On one hand, I’m a
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Looking at listings through Zillow or another online portal can be confusing, especially when you compare the areas around St. Louis with other areas in the country. One of the biggest sources of confusion is the definition of a full bathroom and a half bathroom. Here is the best way to think of a full
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I’ve been in lots of discussions with my clients, and pricing your home for sale can be very difficult. I wanted to tell you the story of what one of my real estate agent friends went through when putting his parents’ house for sale. In The Beginning In the busy selling season of 2017, the
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