Real Estate

An inspector evaluates the CONDITION of the home. They provide written information on the structural & mechanical integrity of the property. Most people when they talk about an inspection are referring to a basic home inspection. Does the air conditioning work? Are the windows functional? Are there GFCIs in the appropriate places near water in […]

An experienced agent is going to be able to tell exactly how serious a buyer is by asking just one question: Are you preapproved? I often hear this response from buyers, “I’ll get preapproved if I like the house.” My team & I just did a Facebook live on this very subject. If you’re on […]

This is the term that you’re looking for when you want a value on your home. The appraisal report comes from an impartial 3rd party. I just took an appraisal course for my broker’s license, & I do not envy the job of an appraiser nor do I pretend to fully understand all that goes […]

As a Realtor, I could write a book about all of the craziness I’ve seen in this business. Let me tell you about a little house that that still has me scratching my head. A few years ago, on an usually warm spring day, I pull up to a quaint ranch home in a perfectly […]

I monitor 5 different counties: Allegheny, Beaver, Butler, Lawrence & Mercer to give you some broad strokes of insight. There’s a lot of different numbers to take into account when painting a statistical picture of our current real estate market.   I’m seeing that the average sales price in Beaver & Mercer counties are relatively […]

Let’s be honest – there’s a lot of BAD information out there. Real estate is HIGHLY local. What we experience in Pennsylvania is going to be vastly different than what my California counterparts are going through on the west coast. Advice that I give to my sellers in one area will not match my recommendations […]

If you have a choice to listen to your drunk uncle Bernard’s advice about buying a home because he purchased a house 20 years ago & knows how it should go… or… listening to me – I would hope that you take a smidgen of this information into account. The bad news is that even […]