north reading homes for sale
December 20, 2018
You’d be hard pressed to find, especially these days, a company that does not have a website. If you don’t have a website, well, you are really placing your business in a tiny pigeonhole. You need to provide a website that represents who you are […]
December 2, 2018
Who Pays the Real Estate Agents Commission The truth about real estate commissions. Many buyers, buyer agents say to their buyer’s agent what am I paying you for, right? What am I paying you for, what are you doing for me, right? Let’s just break […]
May 22, 2018
That’s a good question! You want to purchase a home that will give you a good resell value later on. To do this, look at the type of home you’re planning to purchase that may be attractive to future buyers. When you’re looking to purchase […]
May 8, 2018
Real estate is changing hands in ways that make headlines. Whether you’re a buyer or seller, here are some tips to help you make the best deal. BUYING: So you want to buy a house? In this market? Are you nuts? Actually, it depends on […]
April 23, 2018
Here is the issue: A Lot of people are going to great lengths to ensure that there is no mold in their homes. Now alone, that is a good thing, but there is a problem. Not every inspector is going to be able to correctly […]
April 17, 2018
There is something to be said about a neat and tidy house when you are sorting through house after house looking for the perfect home for you and your family. This is something that should be kept in mind when selling either a personal home […]
April 9, 2018
DO YOU NEED A HOME INSPECTION Do I really need a home inspection? I mean what do I want to spend 450 bucks or 350 bucks on a home inspection, right? It’s pretty obvious what the house needs or doesn’t need, right? You could probably […]
March 7, 2018
MEETING YOUR BUYER AGENT FOR THE FIRST TIME When you set up a tour, and you’re meeting your buyer agent for the first time, there’s a couple things you really want to look for when first, that buyer agent is first getting out of the […]
March 1, 2018
IS IT AVAILABLE OR NOT Hey, can you explain something to me? This always frustrates me. How come when I find a home on Zillow, and I reached out to a particular agent about that house. They say to me oh gee sorry, the […]
March 1, 2018
When deciding to buy or sell a home, many of us have friends or family that are already in the real estate business. We have cousins and uncles and brothers and sisters and neighbors and third cousins of your mom’s friends or whatever, that are […]
February 25, 2018
If you haven’t already noticed, there are a ton of Facebook groups out there. In fact, I am probably in about over twenty of them myself. There’s Facebook Mastermind, Facebook Lead Generation, Facebook Expired, Facebook What Should I Spend My Money On, all these real […]
February 23, 2018
When selling a home, the importance of strategic pricing cannot be overstated. Now more than ever before, a potential buyer is likely to search the internet long before picking up the phone or meeting an agent for an actual house hunting expedition. Consider this: If […]
February 21, 2018
WHAT NOT TO DO WHEN BUYING A HOME All right. So you’ve put an offer on a house, it’s been accepted. You’re moving through the home inspection phase, and then they’re going to sign the perch and sale. Here are just a couple quick […]
February 10, 2018
I’ve been hearing this for years. It’s everywhere, in reading articles and different information pieces and different content marketing shared in a variety of places. They all say that same kind of things: “It’s never been a better time to buy!” “Now is the time […]
February 7, 2018
WHAT IS MY AGENT DOING FOR ME Sometimes it’s difficult to see at first what your real estate agent is actually doing for you. Take you the best buy for example, when you walk into best buy, the first person says how you doing, you […]
January 31, 2018
This blog is for all of my broker friends: When my friends in and around North Reading ask me, “Hey, Evan, tell me about your business,” I always reply with a standard and honest response. I simply say that we have a local North Reading […]
January 25, 2018
HOW IS MY MORTGAGE PAYMENT CALCULATED So I put my price in a mortgage calculator that I found on one of these cool websites, and it says the payments only like fifteen hundred bucks. How come the mortgage lender is telling me my payment […]
December 29, 2017
Alice went down the rabbit hole to Wonderland and found herself in any number of predicaments and situations where some magical food seemed to always hit the spot and send her off onto the next crazy scene. This isn’t far from how people have […]
September 30, 2017
According to a report just out, it is too easy to be fooled by home staging. Home staging is a term that we are gradually becoming familiar with. It is the idea that we try to create the best impression of our home when […]
June 24, 2016
We have become an increasingly technological society, so we already know that there are a variety of different websites on which you can find homes. For example, Zillow, Trulia, Realtor.com, your local agent’s site, our ERA site, the Boston MLS to name just […]
June 20, 2016
PART 1 This past weekend, I met with a seller a few towns away a number of miles from my home office. I live in a particular town that has specific demographics and I went about forty minutes south to another town. During […]
June 20, 2016
When you decide to go online and begin a home search, whether it on your mobile device, or on your iPad or tablet, or perhaps on your home computer, there are many sites that basically provide you with all the same information. If […]
June 20, 2016
Congratulations to the Cleveland Cavaliers and to their fans for a unbelievable comeback to win the NBA Championship. I wrote this story back in July of 2014. I am of the same opinion. LeBron to the Cavs is a feel good story in my […]
June 16, 2016
On a recent scroll through my Facebook feed, I came across a disgruntled post about forced registration. They made a comment along the lines of “no thanks, nothing to see here, moving along” and it made me stop and think: Is a business really expected […]
June 15, 2016
A buyer asked me the other day, “What is a ‘seller concession’?” and as I explained this, I realized that there seems to be a lot of confusion about what a seller concession actually is. There are always questions concerning how it works, […]
May 27, 2016
There are a lot of questions one asks when deciding on a broker: When you find an agent to take you to a home you like, you wonder if this is the agent that you want to negotiate on your behalf. Do they […]
