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What is Your Worst Real Estate Fear? - dated: January 25, 2005 - Author: Scott Williams - Here’s a popular nightmare: the market is near the top, like in 1990, ready to begin sliding downwards into years of dropping prices. Month in and month out, I’m asked if the market is near the top of a bubble by Santa Barbarans who have convinced themselves that “the market cannot keep going up.” Click here for full text
55 Or Older California Sellers - dated: May 26, 2004 - Author: Scott Williams - Proposition 60 and 90 were enacted to provide a valuable one-time tax benefit by preventing reassessment to homeowners age 55 years or older who would like to sell their existing home and purchase or build a replacement residence worth equal or less than the original property. Click here for full text
Setting the Price on Your Home - dated: January 27, 2005 - author: Scott Williams - The three factors to consider when selling your home are location, condition, and price. They are all related. LOCATION: Your home’s location and setting influence its value. A home inside a quiet subdivision sells for more than the identical home on a busy street. Remote click here for full text.
Annual Economic Forecast For Santa Barbara County - Author: Scott Williams - dated: May 26, 2004 - The recently presented Real Estate and Economic Forecast for Santa Barbara County had lots to say about the recent past and the next few years. While the county as a whole appears very stable economically, the momentum is more apparent in the north. Click here for full text
Do You Know The Future - dated: May 26, 2004 - Author: Scott Williams - Property ownership patterns are unmistakable over a lifetime. Witness the apartment you live in at 21, the family home at 42, with retirement living beginning between 60 and 70. Millions of Americans follow these patterns making housing needs predictable. Click here for full text
Reasons To Price Your Home Realistically - dated: January 27, 2005 - author: Scott Williams - Chances are that your home will sell at its fair market value. Pricing it realistically at the outset simply increases the likelihood for a timely sale with less inconvenience and greater monetary return. Buyers educate themselves by viewing many homes. click here for full text.
Ads Don’t Sell Homes…People Do! - dated: January 28, 2005 - author: Scott Williams - Many people think to sell a home you place an ad in the paper and wait for a person to call and buy the home…NOT SO!! If that were true, real estate agents would be out of work. click here for full text.
A Seller’s Guide- How to Interview a Real Estate Agent to Sell Your Property - dated: January 30, 2005 - author: Scott Williams - There are hundreds of real estate licensees in our area. Choosing the right agent for your home can be confusing. It is especially difficult when you speak with several different agents; and they all seem so convincing. There is a way to find an agent who will most likely succeed in getting your desired price and terms. click here for full text.
The Fact of the Matter Is - dated: January 30, 2005 - author: Scott Williams - The best chance for selling your property is within the first seven weeks. Studies show that the longer a property stays on the market, the less the seller will net. It is very important click here for full text.
When A Seller Says “Full Price Isn’t Enough!” --Value Range Marketing - dated: February 14, 2005 - author: Scott Williams - Sellers place their properties on the market at prices that seem ridiculously high. Still, a full price offer comes in. Even as they accept the offer, a thought is drumming its way into the seller’s mind, “We should have asked for more!” Stories abound of back up offers $10-30,000 more click here for full text.
Home Improvements That Will Sell Your Home - dated: February 14, 2005 - author: Scott Williams - What are the most important ideas to keep in mind so your home fix up projects net the most money when selling time comes? It’s what’s up front that counts. click here for full text.
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