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Making Your Move

For most of us, moving is an unusual experience that can be stressful and difficult. It doesn’t need to be that way. Planning ahead, getting solid estimates, and engaging with your movers can give you a feeling of control over your move and provide you with a much better experience. For most people, moving is […]
Rand Buyer Orientation Guide

Understanding the Closing

The real estate closing can be confusing, but mostly it can be boring. The attorneys do all the work, and you will mostly sit around making small talk between long bouts of signing big documents. The seller has even less to do, so you might not even see the seller for most of the closing. […]
Rand Seller Orientation Guide

Understanding the Closing – Sellers Perspective

The real estate closing can be confusing, but mostly it can be boring. The attorneys do all the work, and the buyer has a lot more documents to sign and figure out than you do. But after all the work you did getting the home on the market and living through the marketing process, you […]
Rand Buyer Orientation Guide

What to Expect in Your Real Estate Contract

If you haven’t hired your real estate attorney, you’ll need to do so once you have an accepted offer. Your attorney will review a draft of the real estate contract prepared by the seller’s attorney, negotiate legal terms, and guide you through to the closing. Now it’s time to hire an attorney to help you […]

Rand Buyer Orientation Guide Making Your Move For most of us, moving is an unusual experience that can be stressful and difficult. It doesn’t need to be that way. Planning ahead, getting solid estimates, and engaging with your movers can give you a feeling of control over your move and provide you with a much better experience. For most people, moving is […]

Rand Buyer Orientation Guide Understanding the Closing The real estate closing can be confusing, but mostly it can be boring. The attorneys do all the work, and you will mostly sit around making small talk between long bouts of signing big documents. The seller has even less to do, so you might not even see the seller for most of the closing. […]

Rand Seller Orientation Guide Understanding the Closing – Sellers Perspective The real estate closing can be confusing, but mostly it can be boring. The attorneys do all the work, and the buyer has a lot more documents to sign and figure out than you do. But after all the work you did getting the home on the market and living through the marketing process, you […]

Rand Buyer Orientation Guide What to Expect in Your Real Estate Contract If you haven’t hired your real estate attorney, you’ll need to do so once you have an accepted offer. Your attorney will review a draft of the real estate contract prepared by the seller’s attorney, negotiate legal terms, and guide you through to the closing. Now it’s time to hire an attorney to help you […]

Rand Seller Orientation Guide Making Your Move: Tips for Having a Great Move For most of us, moving is an unusual experience that can be stressful and difficult. It doesn’t need to be that way. Planning ahead, getting solid estimates, and engaging with your movers can give you a feeling of control over your move and provide you with a much better experience. For most people, moving is […]

Rand Buyer Orientation Guide Dealing with Home Inspection Problems The home inspection takes place after you have an accepted offer, but before you sign contracts. Most likely, the inspection will turn up some issues, since inspections always do. If the inspection turns up serious issues, we recommend you have your attorney resolve any problems in the contract of sale. After you have an accepted […]

Rand Buyer Orientation Guide The Transactional Process – Buyers Perspective Your agent will guide you from your initial offer through your final closing, managing your transactional process. In the Guide, you’ll learn about all the different parts of the transaction, and how to avoid delays that would keep you from closing on time. You’ll also get advice about what to expect in your closing, and how […]

Rand Seller Orientation Guide Preparing for Your Move It’s almost over. All the hard work you put in to get your home ready for sale, keep up the property appeal while it was on the market, negotiate your offers, review your contract, and all the rest now finally result in the closing. You’ll move out of the property, the buyer will do a final “walk […]

Rand Seller Orientation Guide Your Real Estate Contract If you haven’t already hired your real estate attorney, you’ll need to do so once you have an accepted offer. Your attorney will draft your real estate contract, negotiate terms with the buyer attorney, and guide you through to the closing. Now it’s time to hire an attorney and get your contract drafted. In our […]

Rand Buyer Orientation Guide Ten Tips for Negotiating Offers A good negotiation strategy can save you thousands of dollars in your home purchase. Although buyers and sellers need to work together in good faith, it’s always better of you’re in control of the terms of your negotiation. Here are some tips on how to take a strong negotiating stance. Contrary to popular belief, negotiation […]

Rand Seller Orientation Guide Common Inspection Issues The home inspection takes place after you have an accepted offer, but before you sign contracts. Most likely, the inspection will turn up some issues, since inspections always do. If the inspection turns up serious issues, we recommend you have your attorney resolve any problems in the contract of sale. After you have an accepted […]

Rand Buyer Orientation Guide Preparing, Pricing, and Presenting an Offer Presenting offers is part art, part science. The science part is the analysis you and your agent will do to examine recent comparable sales, the over market conditions, and the perceived attitudes of the seller to determine the correct offering price. The art is how you present it, and whether you give yourself the best […]

Rand Seller Orientation Guide Ten Things You Should Know About Negotiating Offers The moment you start receiving offers will change the dynamic of your home selling process. No longer will you be forecasting buyer response to your listing, you’ll actually know how buyers are responding. Whether the offer is for full-price, near-price, or a lowball fishing expedition, you should plan ahead with your agent about your negotiating strategies. […]

Rand Buyer Orientation Guide The Showing Process The fun part of the home buying experience is going out on showings. You’ll go on dozens of showings during your home search, so this section sets out everything you need to know about the showing process. The foundation of the home search process is the property “showing,” which is an appointment set by your […]

Rand Seller Orientation Guide Planning Ahead: How to Avoid Delays in Your Transaction Now that you are starting to field offers, you can see the light at the end of the tunnel. Offers become agreements, agreements become contracts, and contracts become closings. Most transactions go from offer-and-acceptance through to closing smoothly: 1. The parties reach an accepted offer. 2. The buyer completes a home inspection, and has no major […]

Rand Buyer Orientation Guide Ten Principles for Starting Your Home Search Searching for a home can be a fun experience. When you’re thinking of buying a home, every neighborhood is one big department store filled with stuff that you might want to buy. And most people like to go look at homes – indeed, any real estate agent can tell you that her open houses are often […]

Rand Seller Orientation Guide From Contract to Closing – Sellers Perspective Once you have an accepted offer, your home selling experience will change dramatically from the marketing stage to the transactional stage. Now, you’re no longer concerned with keeping the home in showing condition or staying on top of the market, you’re only focused on getting into contract and ultimately to closing. The hardest part is over, […]

Rand Seller Orientation Guide How to Watch the Market Once you’re on the market, you’re going to be interested in the market. You’ll be reading and watching everything in sight. But information about the national market can be misleading, so you want to make sure you focus your attention on your local markets and on interest rates. Few people are as interested in the […]

Rand Seller Orientation Guide How to Prepare Your Home For Showings The key to getting your home sold quickly and for the best price is making it available for showings whenever buyers want to see it. It’s one of the most annoying parts about having your home for sale, but it’s important to accommodate buyer schedules. You never know whether the person coming to see it […]

Rand Seller Orientation Guide Ten Things You Can Do to Help Get Your Home Sold Having a home on the market isn’t a full-time job, bit it can seem like one. If you want to get your home sold as quickly as possible, and for the best price possible, there are some things that you, and only you, can do. Having a home on the market can be a stressful […]

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