Real Estate Tips
Kill the Clutter, Not the Sale.
I’ve been in many different homes over the years. Some were immaculate showcase quality homes, while others needed a hazmat suit to enter. Regardless of circumstances, all homeowners and Realtors want the same thing – The home sold quickly and for top dollar. However, I am finding myself faced with a constant and reoccurring problem, [...]
Sell Your Home with Great Staging
7 Tips for Staging Your Home Make your home warm and inviting to boost your home’s value and speed up the sale process. 1. Start with a clean slate Before you can worry about where to place furniture and which wall hanging should go where, each room in your home must be spotless. [...]
Tips to Prepare your Home for Sale
Tips to Prepare Your Home for Sale Working to get your home ship-shape for showings will increase its value and shorten your sales time. 1. Have a home inspection Be proactive by arranging for a pre-sale home inspection. For $250 to $400, an inspector will warn you about troubles that could make potential buyers balk. [...]
Real Estate Articles
How to Repair Your Credit Score
There are several things that one can do to quickly clean up their credit. First start by checking your credit report. Checking your credit report is quick, easy, and best of all…FREE! Every American is allowed by law a free copy of their credit report, from all three bureaus, every year. You can get [...]
Zero Down!
*Article written for and distributed by Extention Matters Magazine . Author Joshua A. McGrath, Broker-Owner, Real Estate Central, LLC* A guide to home ownership with little or no down payment There is a common misconception in today’s real estate market that a 20 percent down payment is necessary to purchase a home. Actually, this [...]
Kill the Clutter, Not the Sale.
I’ve been in many different homes over the years. Some were immaculate showcase quality homes, while others needed a hazmat suit to enter. Regardless of circumstances, all homeowners and Realtors want the same thing – The home sold quickly and for top dollar. However, I am finding myself faced with a constant and reoccurring problem, [...]
WV Helps Lead the Nation’s Housing Recovery
A boom in farm prices has caused many Midwest cities to emerge as leaders for some of the strongest predictions for housing appreciation in 2012. Kansas City, Kan., came in the top spot in HousingPredictor’s annual survey, forecasting an appreciation of 5.8 percent for this year. “The recovery is starting in housing with these cities and [...]
WV Slashes Taxes on Businesses
The Charleston Regional Chamber of Commerce has been on the ground floor of tax reduction, working diligently to make the state more attractive to businesses. On Jan. 1, the state’s corporate net income tax rate decreased from 8.5 percent to 7.75 percent. In 2013, it will continue its descent to 7 percent. By 2014, that [...]
Pending Home Sales Rise Again in November, Highest in a Year-and-a-Half
Washington, DC, December 29, 2011 Pending home sales continued to gain in November and reached the highest level in 19 months, according to the National Association of Realtors®. The Pending Home Sales Index,* a forward-looking indicator based on contract signings, increased 7.3 percent to 100.1 in November from an upwardly revised 93.3 in October and is [...]
I Want to Buy a Foreclosure Too!
So you want to buy a foreclosure in West Virginia. Or at least you THINK you want to buy one. Maybe you are thinking about “flipping” it. Perhaps you would just like to get a great deal on a home. This may sound great, but in reality, things are much different than what most people [...]
