During the process of buying a home with a mortgage the lender will send out an appraiser to assess the value of the property as compared to recently sold comparable properties. The appraiser will adjust his or her value based on the value assigned to the specifics of the subject property and determine a reasonable value of what the property should sell for in it’s present condition.
Todd Tramonte
Broker / Owner of Market Experts Realty & The Todd Tramonte Home Selling Team
Real Estate Author of Live Free: The Art Of The 2-Year House Flip
This residential real estate video is about high cost home improvements to improve the value of your home. Improving the kitchen will have a great return. Under mount sinks when upgrading the countertops is a good choice. Automatic stop close cabinets offer a good return. Lighting and a high quality backsplash will offer you a good return on your value. Master bathrooms are another area that can offer a great return for your investment. A good countertop carried over into the shower will really stand out. A high quality roof, tankless water heater and a three car garage are a few other places that can really return the value on your investment.
Todd Tramonte
Broker / Owner of Market Experts Realty & The Todd Tramonte Home Selling Team
This educational residential real estate video is about the topic of ambitious home improvement projects. With the help of a great contractor you can start to tear walls down which will have an immense impact by creating an open floor plan. Raising ceilings is another great option which can make the rooms feel much larger. Energy efficient windows can make a huge visual impact as well as help reduce the cost of heating and cooling the home.
Todd Tramonte
Broker/Owner of Market Experts Realty & The Todd Tramonte Home Selling Team
This educational residential real estate video is about marketing your home in order to sell it for maximum profit. One of the most important factors to consider in order to get maximum profit out of your home is how it’s positioned. You want the home positioned in such a way as to elicit the response from home buyers that it is positioned at the top of the market. This can be accomplished in part through home staging, which can make the home look as best as it possibly can be. You also want to focus on how you will negotiate on this home. Be conscious of how you are communicating to your prospective home buyers. You also want to create a large pool of home buyers in order to be able to identify the one home buyer that can’t live without your home. Once you’ve accomplished these three things you’ll want your Realtor to communicate this to as many people and places as possible. Use all the major real estate websites but don’t forget to take advantage of the free sites too.
Todd Tramonte
Broker/Owner of Market Experts Realty & The Todd Tramonte Home Selling Team
This educational real estate video will be able the value of working with a real estate team. One of the benefits that you’ll receive by working with a real estate team when you buy or sell a home is the access to different personalities, skills, gifts and knowledge that comes from the various members. Some of the other benefits that you can receive by working with a real estate team is the added flexibility of the different members availabilities. Also, a cooperative team is able to help each other when they encounter a situation that they may be some what unfamiliar with because they’re best interest is in helping their team member serve the clients to the highest level. There are countless benefits to working with a real estate team but these are a couple of the biggest factors.
Todd Tramonte
Broker/Owner of Market Experts Realty & The Todd Tramonte Home Selling Team
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
