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Selling? How to Establish a Price for Your Property
Here are insights you can use as you establish a fair, market-driven price for your property.
Betty Most Agency: COVID-19 and Home Closings
At the Betty Most Agency, we are working from our home office (during the COVID-19 outbreak) and as always, we will continue to give you the best service possible.
January Expected to Be Hot for Home Shoppers
The busy home-shopping season will start early in January this year, according to forecasters.
How to Make Your Houseguest Feel Like a Rock Star
Give your guests the rock-star treatment with a few thoughtful and easy ideas for your guest room.
Why Millennials Love Mid-Century Modern Homes So Much
Mid-Century Modern design gets name-dropped a lot these days and can be seen everywhere from the Museum of Modern Art to the Target catalog.
If I hope to buy a house in the next year, how can I prepare my finances? What expenses should I minimize or avoid?
Most homebuyers prepare in advance by saving for a down payment, but the down payment is only one financial factor of many that buyers need to have in order before getting a mortgage.
How Do I Choose the Right Size Rug for a Room?
Choosing the right rug for a space can be tricky if you don’t know the rules that interior designers live by.
After lightning destroyed home, owner rebuilt $1.9M Prior Lake estate
Not many homeowners can say they built the same house twice. Mike and Kathy Viola can. In 2007, the couple built a large “European country casual” home on 2.5 acres in Prior Lake overlooking the Credit River basin.
iBuyers: What you need to know about selling your home with an online investment firm
Key insights:
Large online investment firms known as “iBuyers” provide automated offers to home sellers.
Before selling with an iBuyer, homeowners should know how their algorithms work to generate offers — and how these offers may differ from a traditional buyer’s offer.
New data shows that selling to an iBuyer could cost the seller 2-3 times more than when they sell with a traditional real estate agent who earns a commission.