This real estate video is about the process of staging a home for sale. Staging is about positioning the home in the most favorable light in the prospective buyers eyes so that they assign the highest level of value to the property. A certified professional stager can help you stage your home so that prospective buyers find the home attractive and desirable. In most markets, a professional staging has been shown to raise the average sale price by 5-7% and sell the home 20% faster than a non-staged home.
Todd Tramonte
Broker/Owner of Market Experts Realty & The Todd Tramonte Home Selling Team
This real estate video discusses the topic of landscaping. This will be important if you are selling your home or are thinking about selling it. There are a few quick and inexpensive landscaping things that you can do to really make your house pop. Use colorful flowers near the front door to draw the home buyers eyes towards the front door. A yard full of green lush grass is inviting to a prospective buyer driving by the home. You’ll want to keep trees trimmed below the first floor of the house. If you show the house in the evenings, landscape lighting can have a tremendous impact on a prospective buyers view of the home. These are just a few ways that you can use landscaping to make a dramatic impact on the look of your home.
Todd Tramonte
Broker/Owner of Market Experts Realty & The Todd Tramonte Home Selling Team
This real estate video will discuss buying new construction homes. You will want to make sure that you are working with a real estate professional throughout the process. New construction builders are in the business of marketing their own properties for sale which is why you need someone who is loyal to you and has a fiduciary responsibility to you. This is where a professional real estate agent will come in handy because they are ethically required to look out for your best interest. A professional real estate agent will help you throughout the process of purchasing this home because new construction home contracts can be a little different than an average house because they sometimes factor in builder upgrades and construction timelines. Also, keep in mind that when you purchase a home, regardless of if it’s new contraction or not, the seller will pay your real estate agents commission.
Todd Tramonte
Broker/Owner of Market Experts Realty & The Todd Tramonte Home Selling Team
This real estate video explains the process of getting a mortgage loan. One of the most important things to consider when starting this process is to start it in the early phases of home buying. The process of pre qualification usually begins with a discussion with a lender about your income, credit and debt. You want to determine what you feel comfortable spending because you don’t necessarily have to buy a home for the full amount that you’re able to borrow. You want to borrow what you feel comfortable with. It’s a good idea to speak to at least two mortgage lenders when you start the process and ensure that you’re comfortable with the one you select and are made aware of the entire process throughout the transaction.
Todd Tramonte
Broker/Owner of Market Experts Realty & The Todd Tramonte Home Selling Team
This real estate video discusses title companies. Depending on the state, either an attorney or a title company will be used in order to verify the chain of title. Title companies issue title insurance, which guarantees the chain of ownership to make sure that it is clear and that no one will show out of the blue and claim that they still hold the title to the house that you’re living in. Title companies are where you will go to actually sign your paperwork in order to gain ownership when you buy or sell a property. It’s not legally set who gets to decide which title company will be used. The title companies other function is to handle the flow of finances. At the time of transfer or ownership or transfer of title, the title company will transfer the correct amount of funds to the different parties that are owed and ensure that everything is completed ethically and correctly.
Todd Tramonte
Broker/Owner of Market Experts Realty & The Todd Tramonte Home Selling Team
This real estate video is about escrow accounts and how they relate to your monthly mortgage payment. Your escrow account is an account that holds money that you’re paying into every month and is due to other people as a lump sum. A good example of this is your taxes. You can set up an escrow account and pay 1/12th of your tax bill to your escrow account every month and then transfer the entire years account balance at the time that your yearly tax bill is due. A potential downside to escrow accounts is the opportunity loss of interest earning income.
Todd Tramonte
Broker/Owner of Market Experts Realty & The Todd Tramonte Home Selling Team
This real estate video discusses mortgage payments. This is crucial to the home buying equation if you will be borrowing money through a lender to finance the purchase. Be careful when using online mortgage calculators because often times they only include the principle and interest in the calculations, which isn’t the whole story. When thinking about your mortgage you’ll want to consider the PITI payment, which includes the principle, interest, taxes and insurance. You can use a mortgage calculator that calculates the PITI to determine your budget after including in what will be used in the down payment. If you’ve been renting you can think of mortgage payments as similar to rent payments with the exception being that your payments are now creating equity in your home for you.
Todd Tramonte
Broker/Owner of Market Experts Realty & The Todd Tramonte Home Selling Team
This real estate video covers the topic of home inspections. When a potential home buyer makes an offer to a home seller and they accept, they go under contract. The buyer then gets a chance to inspect the general systems of the house. The purpose of the home inspection is to ensure that there aren’t major safety hazards, problems, or costs that the buyer will inherit at the time that they purchase the home. All homes will have some problems because no home is perfect. The inspection report will have items that may need to be addressed but the thing to keep in mind is that the buyer should really focus on the major issues involved with the home and not all the small details that can be corrected inexpensively over time.
Todd Tramonte
Broker/Owner of Market Experts Realty & The Todd Tramonte Home Selling Team
