Real Estate Articles Worth Reading

Selling a home is not rocket science. If you follow sound advice more often than not your home is going to sell in a reasonable amount of time with not that many headaches to deal with. That is of course if you actually follow the sound advice. Many home sellers unfortunately march to the beat of their own drum and make unnecessary mistakes from choosing the wrong real estate agent, to making it difficult to show their home, to not keeping up with maintenance of not even bothering to clean it! In the article the five top home seller real estate mistakes are reviewed and suggestions are given on how to avoid these problems. Making every effort to understand what is important in real estate sales can go a long with with a seller having home sale success!

Do you know what some of the most common mistakes that home owners make on their income taxes? The article takes you through common issues that home owners don't account for properly. Take a look so you don't make these same tax mistakes. This is a great article to share with your real estate clients if you are a Realtor.

When selling a home the last thing you want to find out is you have mold. There are not many things that will scare a buyer away from a home purchase quicker than finding mold. At the very least a buyer is going to ask you to re mediate the mold if it is discovered. This makes selling a home with mold problems serious business and nothing to take lightly. Take a look and see what you can do to check your home for mold before you even put it up for sale. If you discover mold during the home sale process there are a few ways to deal with it. Take a look and see how mold can effect a Real Estate transaction.

Excellent article from this Old House on how and why you want to remove ice dams from your property.

As a real estate agent the terms in this article are all common knowledge to me but for many consumers they may be foreign. They are important real estate terms although I would mention that all of them have much more to do with the mortgage industry.

If you are a real estate agent and you are looking to grow your business through social media channels then you will want to take the time and go through this article that offers advice on how to use Google Plus, Facebook and Pinterest for your real estate business. There are many real estate agents who are using Facebook but have not caught on to the power of Google Plus for business. In comparing Google Plus vs Facebook for Real Estate there are a number of things to consider. Google Plus is the only social network that is also integrated with Google search. In other words if you are logged into Google and someone has connected with you on Google Plus and has either shared or +1 your post they will more than likely see it when they do an online search. By claiming Google authorship (see the article) you can also get your picture in search results. This has been shown to increase CTR dramatically! Facebook and Pinterest also should have a place in your social media arsenal. Take a look at the article and be sure to follow some of the links as well.

When selling a home one of the biggest hurdles you will need to clear is the buyers home inspection. There are more real estate transactions that will fall apart due to home inspection problems than any other reason. Because of this it makes it vital that you prepare for a real estate home inspection.If you pay attention to the most common issues that are discovered at a home inspection and address them before you even put your home up for sale, you will stand a much greater chance of your sale being successful! Take a look at the article to see some of the most common problems.

Whether you own rental property or happen to be in the property management field this is an excellent article on how to make the most  of your time management skills.

Nice explanation of the roles of both the home inspector and bank appraiser in the process of buying a home. While there is some general overlap in what these professionals do there are really some substantial differences that you should be aware of. Tom does a nice job of summing these up for everyone.

If you are a Real Estate agent and have a blog I am sure there has come a time where you have gotten stumped on what to write about. This article shares a number of excellent things you can write about to keep your blog fresh with great content!

Joshua Dorkin from Bigger Pockets writes an excellent article on how and why you should be investing in real estate. Josh provides you excellent reasons why real estate is a great place to have a portion of your investment portfolio.

In real estate there are some things you can do with your property that will have very little return when it comes time to sell. There are some home owners who completely understand this and don't care because they are doing it for personal satisfaction. There are those however that do not realize that there are many things you can do to your property that have no or very little return on your investment. In this article these low return upgrades are covered.

Do you want to improve your social media results as a real estate agent? Ff course I know the answer is YES! Take a look at the advice from my friend and social media expert Rebekah Radice as she walks you through some of the best ways to improve your social media efforts.

As a home owner probably one of your greatest fears is taking on any kind of water in your home. I know for me personally it is always something I think about even though I have a young home and have never been unfortunate enough to have water. Getting water in your basement is nasty and even more so if you have finished space.

If you have ever had water in your basement before then you know the first thing you will want to do if it happens again is figuring out how the water is getting in. Most of the time solving basement water issues is easy once you have identified the problem.