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Archive for January, 2009
Selling your Columbus Home and Buying “up” this year? Be aware
January 30th, 2009 categories: For Home Buyers, Mortgage/Finance
When a homeowner sells his home and decides to buy a new one, there are 3 basic options for the residence — sell it, keep it, or rent it. Lately, we’ve seen a lot of what’s being called “accidental landlords” – those who couldn’t sell their home and are now renting it and have bought a [...]
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Are you on the Hook If you Don’t Shovel the Sidewalk of Your Columbus Home?
January 28th, 2009 categories: About Me?, Columbus News, For Home Sellers
There are few things more frustrating than trudging through the un-shoveled sidewalks and driveways of Columbus homes that are for sale during showings with buyers. Of course once you get in and find that the home is vacant and freezing, that’s not much fun either.
One thing I was just considering is that people really only [...]
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2,250 Homes on the market so far in 2009 – What’s an MLS Number mean again?
January 21st, 2009 categories: About Me?, For Home Buyers, For Home Sellers, Market Updates
In the areas I pay attention to, 7 homes came on the market this morning. They included a home on Tulane in Clintonville, a Gahanna Condo, a New Albany new build and this four bed, 2 1/2 bath home in Westerville which chose to make a first impression with this same County Auditor photo in [...]
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A Turn Lane @ North High & NorthBroadway?
January 15th, 2009 categories: Clintonville, Columbus News
For years I’ve said that this is the longest light in Columbus. It’s a busy, popular intersection and many people who live in Clintonville have to go through it at least a couple times a week. Clintonville’s easy access from I-71 or 315 is a great selling point to potential Clintonville Home Buyers, but this [...]
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Thinking of Buying a Columbus Foreclosure, Short Sale or HUD Home?
January 14th, 2009 categories: About Me?, For Home Buyers
Expect the Unexpected
And make sure that you aren’t too tight on your margins, you will need an ever expanding checkbook to finance those unexpected fixes. How about this nice Columbus Foreclosure in a good, up and coming location at an attractive price. It was rehabbed for more than the owner expected and last week they [...]
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4.5% mortgage rates? Maybe
January 14th, 2009 categories: Mortgage/Finance
The markets have been toying with sub 5% mortgage rates for awhile now. Here is a quick analysis as to why it might happen very soon.
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2009 Outlook for Columbus Homes Blog
January 7th, 2009 categories: About Me?, For Home Buyers, For Home Sellers
Looking back on my what do you want to see for 2008 post I wrote over a year ago, I’ve not accomplished much of what I wanted to do here on the blog. In fact, I can almost copy and paste the whole thing plus reader comments and use it as a guide for working [...]
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Resolved to Sell in 2009? Top 10 Must-Do List
January 6th, 2009 categories: For Home Sellers
It’s always nice to hear the same old things that I preach to Sellers from a 3rd party with no interest in the sale. Not the National Association of Realtors, your Mother or my Home Stager, but someone else all together.
This video says it all – what must be done prior to putting your Columbus [...]
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Bexley Real Estate Market – 2008 Year end look
January 6th, 2009 categories: Bexley, Market Updates
Can Be Found Here
By month’s end, I plan to do a year end wrap-up for most areas in and around Columbus that I most often write about. It’s funny how carried away one can get with numbers and statistics whose meanings are up for grabs and easy to manipulate.
When it comes down to it, market [...]
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