Linda's Guide to Real Estate

Confidentiality--the meaning is clear, but do we always follow the rules.  When you get home from a long day of showing homes, the clients are not focused on what they want, and a deal is about to fall through.  Do we sometimes break our confidentiality?  The answer is possibly  yes!  I always ca...

"My precept to all who build is, that the owner should be an ornament to the house, and not the house to the owner."  Cicero This is a quote that I found in Treasury of Familiar Quotations.  What do you think of this quote?

We all have been on listing where the homeowner proudly presents their kitchen with decals all over the refrigerator, cute little nick knacks all around, dishes in the sink, the stove not cleaned recently, and you can add the rest. This is an excellent article to show your listing sellers what a ...

Truly the question of every homeowner who is not sure of where they are going to move to. My advice is:  SELL FIRST!  Why?  The best reason is so that you don't have two payments if your 1st home does not sell.  If you are in a slow market that is even more reason to sell your home first.SHOULD I...

 Homeowners -  Basic Policy This type of policy insures your home and contents against items that you have listed.Homeowners -  Broad Form Policy, This type of policy insures your home and contents against the same items in the Basic Policy.  In addition, there are other types of damage you may h...

Although the market in the Toledo, Ohio area is not the same in California, the author is accurate when he says:  "you're more likely to sell 10 homes at $300,000 than you are to sell 1 home at $3,000,000.  You've know got 10 happy clients instead of one."The secret to success in real estate is t...

Every point in "HARRY'S TOP FIVE WAYS TO WRITE A BETTER EMAIL TO CLIENTS" is on target of what an email should be. The ones that hit home for me were:  Subject Line, Think Before You Click, Spell Check, and my (room for improvement) most important one Response Time.HARRY'S TOP FIVE WAYS TO WRITE ...

America the Beautiful, Land of the Free!  Free to choose where we live.  Free to choose how close to the "Beautiful America" we can be. May we protect the rolling plain and the billowed carpet to the horizon.  In this next century I hope that the leaders of this great nation remember where we cam...

A recent article of mine about the 4th of July at Hidden Harbour in Holland, Ohio was a description of what happens on this special day.  Now that I have my pictures downloaded I can show you some of the boats that rode in the Boat Parade that day. The boat parade starts at 4 p.m. with the lead b...

For the Buyers out there my philosophy about who buyers should select as their Buyers Agent is the same:  Provide more personal and professional service to guide my clients through each step of the buying or selling processA Buyer looking to Buy a Home in the Manchester NH area asked "how soon th...