Sarah Schneider's (gosarahschneider) Blog

Want to give your newly listed home a facelift but the dollars for professional staging just arent't there? Here are  few quick, easy and inexpensive or FREE things you can do to transform your home from drab to dynamite for buyers in one weekend or less: 1. CLEAN UP and CLEAN OUT! This is someth...

Dear Homebuilders: I just gotta get this off my chest, which trust me, is no small task.  After showing at least a dozen luxury homes over the past 2 weekends to well-educated, experienced , professional upper-income buyers spending from 700k to 1 million, we end up asking each other at the end o...

Yeah! Wow, what a concept! I'm incredulous. Scrolling through thousands of listings on TReND MLS I am absolutely stymied by the number of listings out there that have little or no or downright horrendous photos. What don't these agents get? You wanna spend your time on the phone answering alot of...

Well, up here in Philadelphia, now that the calendar has ticked "March 1" and the sun is getting ever higher in the sky, we are definitley starting to see the impeding signs of spring...and that can only mean one thing: the buyers are  in the starting gates and reeady to RUN!!!! The question is, ...

It's a closing, not day care... Maybe it's me and, hey, I know I can be a little harsh sometimes, but really, only the parties involved should be at the closing table.  I have been to closings that are nothing short of a dog and pony show. It seems that some people like to treat a business transa...

I can't believe what I (don't) see sometimes. There is absolutely NOTHING, but nothing more infuriating that real estate agents who do not post ANY photos of their properties on the MLS...AT ALL! I mean , what's up with this? This is unacceptable and inexcusable. There isn't a seller out there ri...

Well, summer is here in full swing and all you buyers are in the catbird seat experiencing one of the most spectacular buyer markets in modern US history!  Well, let's get out there and make deals!  You guys should be out in droves wheeling and dealing with your agents...oh, right. Do you even HA...

Of late there's been much ballyhoo over this new promised land called "Newbold", down here in the South Philadelphia's enduring 19145 zip. Well I'm being told that it's like this: Washington Ave. south to Snyder Ave., and Broad St. west to 18th is called "Newbold", and Snyder Ave. south to Wolf S...