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.Berea-Richmond, KY: For Sale By Owner
Are Real Estate Agents Required?
No law requires you to hire a real estate agent when you sell a house. Some states, however, particularly in the eastern half of the country, require a real estate attorney to handle the transfer documents and closing. Check with your state department of real estate to find out whether an attorney is required in your state.
What Tasks Are Involved in Selling a Home?
The closer you look, the more little tasks are revealed as crucial in preparing, marketing, and successfully selling your home. The most important tasks that a real estate agent will normally perform for you include:- evaluating the local market and comparable home values
- suggesting an appropriate listing price
- advising you on how best to present your home, including providing referrals to painters, repair persons, and more
- helping coordinate preparation of disclosure and other needed forms and documents
- creating advertising materials and arranging for photographs (interior and exterior, hopefully done by a professional) and possibly an exterior drawing of your home
- placing ads on the Multiple Listing Service (MLS) and in other media, and sending out postcards to potentially interested buyers on the agent's mailing list
- arranging for individual visits to the property -- if you're no longer living there, most likely by providing a lockbox for use by other realtors, and meeting with individuals who don't yet have their own agent
- answering questions and providing documents such as disclosure packets to potentially interested buyers and their agents
- holding one or more open houses, possibly including weekday open houses for other real estate brokers to visit and weekend open houses for the public (which itself involves many tasks, such as arranging for and putting out signs in advance, and providing food for the broker's open houses, as is traditional in some areas)
- receiving offers to buy your house, whether via email/mail or in person if other agents wish to formally present their offers
- helping you evaluate the strength of each offer and strategize on issues like whether to accept or reject an offer outright or make a counteroffer, and whether to also look for or arrange a backup offer.
- negotiate with the buyer's agent until the purchase contract is complete (although this task may fall more to an attorney in states where legal help is required)
- coordinate with the buyer's agent throughout the escrow period, helping to make the house available for inspections and appraisals and make sure you're doing your part to close the deal
- help you strategize over requests made while in escrow, such as for a reduction in purchase price due to repair issues revealed in the inspection, and negotiating such issues with the buyer's agent (unless any attorneys are still involved), and
- attend the closing.
Contact an experienced agent like Jason that will save you time, stress, money so that you may focus on your home buying needs instead. I can market your home on Trulia, Realtor.com, Zillow, LIsting Hub, LBAR, MCBR, etc. just to name a few well known home for sale sites.
I can send you a FREE For Sale By Owner Packet to assist you at your request.
Jason's references are always available upon request. He looks forward with serving you and your family.
Feel free to leave feedback, comment on my blog, or ask questions here or on my Trulia Blog located on my Web Page.
Jason Smith, Realtor
Realty Executives of the Bluegrass
(859) 358-5563
jason.smith@realtyexecutives.com
www.forsaleky.com (Like Me on Facebook) and view my Trulia Blog
..Berea-Richmond, KY: Blog Topic Ideas
To all my readers:I am experiencing a great deal of views with my Blog's. Therefore, I would like to open up topic ideas from you. If you have any ideas from the list below or something else even more specific please provide feedback. I look forward to hearing from everyone!
General Area
In My Neighborhood
Parks & Recreation
Quality of Life
Schools
Shopping & Local Amenities
Traffic & Public Transportation
Crime & Safety
Entertainment & Nightlife
Moving
Curb Appeal
Home Buying
Foreclosure
Credit Score
Home Selling
Financing
Rent vs Buy
Market Conditions
Jason's references are always available upon request. He looks forward with serving you and your family.
Jason Smith, Realtor
Realty Executives of the Bluegrass
(859) 358-5563
jason.smith@realtyexecutives.com
www.forsaleky.com (Like Me on Facebook) and view my Trulia Blog
Jason Smith, Realtor
Realty Executives of the Bluegrass
(859) 358-5563
jason.smith@realtyexecutives.com
www.forsaleky.com (Like Me on Facebook) and view my Trulia Blog
Thursday, January 19, 2012
MCEA Food Drive benefits Madison County Schools
What a wonderful event MCEA Food Drive was this holiday season! I was very proud to represent our school district's food drive for those in need this holiday season from not only a educator prospective, but from a real estate professional perspective as well. Through this collaborative iniative district wide with support of our family resource centers and dedicated MCEA President this event was a true sucess.
Being a teacher and realtor has been proven to be a very effective way to reach not just families in need of a buying or selling home but also families in need of educational supportive iniatives such as food drives, thanksgiving dinners, box tops for our school's PTO, etc.
Finally, a great big thanks to all the educators including all certified and classified district wide and as well as several in Fayette Co. who have put their trust in Jason by allowing him represent them as their Real Estate Professional for the past 6 years. I look forward to another great year serving you and your friends, families in the new year. Please don't forget if you have any great collaborative ideas myself as a Realtor may assist you with, along with any other community iniatives please contact me. I would love to help.
P.S. Madison County Residents, Families Relocating to the area (or your family members, co-workers), etc. I welcome all your comments and calls/texts/emails as well in order to meet your real estate needs..
As always, I appreciate any and all comments and feedback with my blog topic here or on my Trulia Blog located on my Web Page.
Happy New Year,
Jason Smith
Realty Executives of the Bluegrass
(859) 358-5563
jason.smith@realtyexecutives.com or jason.smith@madison.kyschools.us
www.forsaleky.com
Richmond, Kentucky
Being a teacher and realtor has been proven to be a very effective way to reach not just families in need of a buying or selling home but also families in need of educational supportive iniatives such as food drives, thanksgiving dinners, box tops for our school's PTO, etc.
Finally, a great big thanks to all the educators including all certified and classified district wide and as well as several in Fayette Co. who have put their trust in Jason by allowing him represent them as their Real Estate Professional for the past 6 years. I look forward to another great year serving you and your friends, families in the new year. Please don't forget if you have any great collaborative ideas myself as a Realtor may assist you with, along with any other community iniatives please contact me. I would love to help.
P.S. Madison County Residents, Families Relocating to the area (or your family members, co-workers), etc. I welcome all your comments and calls/texts/emails as well in order to meet your real estate needs..
As always, I appreciate any and all comments and feedback with my blog topic here or on my Trulia Blog located on my Web Page.
Happy New Year,
Jason Smith
Realty Executives of the Bluegrass
(859) 358-5563
jason.smith@realtyexecutives.com or jason.smith@madison.kyschools.us
www.forsaleky.com
Richmond, Kentucky
Madison County Schools District Questions and Answers
As a teacher and realtor, I often find it very rewarding being able to assist buyers and sellers, whom are parents of students (or incoming students) in our Madison County area. Generally, I have a several questions I always like to get started when warming up with my clients just as they do with their realtor.
Most clients with children often like to begin by asking me about schools in the area. Being a educator of nearly 14 years in Kentucky's Public Schools and a realtor in Madison County for 6 years I find a combination of nearly 20 years experience between the two professions makes it very easy to answer or find answers pertaining to school's, district information, etc. to assist my clients with being able to make sound judgements with buying or selling in our area. Finally, if you are thinking about buying or selling in Madison County please feel free to contact Jason today via phone, email or text. He has already accomplished all the experience-service-trust you will need to make your real estate experience a dynamic positive experience.
Feel free to leave feedback, comment on my blog, or ask questions here or on my Trulia Blog located on my Web Page.
I would like to thank all the wonderful folks who have called and emailed me in the past 48 hours since my intial post! I appreciate everyone and look forward helping you all respectfully.
Jason Smith, Realtor
Realty Executives of the Bluegrass
(859) 358-5563
jason.smith@realtyexecutives.com
www.forsaleky.com (Like Me on Facebook)
Most clients with children often like to begin by asking me about schools in the area. Being a educator of nearly 14 years in Kentucky's Public Schools and a realtor in Madison County for 6 years I find a combination of nearly 20 years experience between the two professions makes it very easy to answer or find answers pertaining to school's, district information, etc. to assist my clients with being able to make sound judgements with buying or selling in our area. Finally, if you are thinking about buying or selling in Madison County please feel free to contact Jason today via phone, email or text. He has already accomplished all the experience-service-trust you will need to make your real estate experience a dynamic positive experience.
Feel free to leave feedback, comment on my blog, or ask questions here or on my Trulia Blog located on my Web Page.
I would like to thank all the wonderful folks who have called and emailed me in the past 48 hours since my intial post! I appreciate everyone and look forward helping you all respectfully.
Jason Smith, Realtor
Realty Executives of the Bluegrass
(859) 358-5563
jason.smith@realtyexecutives.com
www.forsaleky.com (Like Me on Facebook)
Madison County: Rate On 30-Year Mortgage Down To Record 3.91%
2012 looks to be another year of opportunity for the few who can afford to buy or refinance a home.The average rate on the 30-year fixed mortgage fell to 3.91 percent this week, Freddie Mac said Thursday. That matches the record low reached two weeks ago.
The average on the 15-year fixed mortgage ticked down to 3.23 percent from 3.24 percent. That's up from 3.21 percent two weeks, also a record low. Rates are Subject to Change Daily
Don't forget home sales were up this past 6 months in Madison County. It's always a great time to buy or sell in Madison County, Berea or Richmond.
Please contact Jason for more home buying or selling information via phone/text/email.
Feel free to leave feedback, comment on my blog, or ask questions here or on my Trulia Blog located on my Web Page.
Jason Smith, Realtor
Realty Executives of the Bluegrass
(859) 358-5563
jason.smith@realtyexecutives.com
www.forsaleky.com (Like Me on Facebook)
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