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This morning, I was up with the birds, hoping that spring will find its way too cold and confused Cincinnati Weather. We need spring here to make our lawns and trees green, so our Real Estate can look beautiful for our promising spring market. I was reading Real Trends Newsletter online today and thought I would share the whole article with you, along with some points I thought you might find interesting. I also wanted to point out some points that I have been sharing with you all along, since the market became not so easy to work in. As you all know, I am a realist, and a very painfully honest... [more...]

According to the National Association of Realtor’s, curb appeal sells 49% of all houses. The front of your property should be alluring enough so that a buyer and agent, driving by slowly, will actually want to stop his or her car, and get out to have a look. That is curb appeal. Your property should also give the prospective buyer a feeling of confidence in the property. Risk is something that we all avoid when buying real estate. If the property looks like it needs improvement then that perception alone will introduce the idea of risk into the transaction. However, if the property is well... [more...]

It’s hard to ignore the recent gloomy talk on the national news about the slumping housing market in the formerly hot markets of Florida, Nevada, Arizona and California. With all of this doom and gloom, the natural instinct is to roll up the driveway, shutter the windows and wait for the financial storm to blow over. But now is not the time to lock yourself in the basement. Here in Cincinnati we have Spring! As a buyer watching rates and sitting on the fence . . .”would you rather buy a home a day too early, or a day too late?” It’s time to get serious – before an inevitable... [more...]