Tulsa Voice: What to Anticipate When Pricing Your Home

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What to Anticipate When Pricing Your Home
This month’s newsletter provides a detailed look at what sellers should anticipate when pricing their home. A detailed checklist offers advice for creating a fair, competitive and marketable sale price. Also this month, a look at the new lending landscape; selecting a real estate agent; improving your home's exterior and more. Top 5 Members are uniquely qualified to not only help you get educated on these matters, but make them as effortless as possible. Only Top 5 Members can provide you with the kind of exclusive information found here in Real Estate Matters - a monthly look at what's really happening in the housing market. It's a privilege to provide you with this important information. Enjoy this monthly e-newsletter, and as always, your feedback is welcomed - call or email any time!

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What to Anticipate When Pricing Your Home

RISMEDIA, September 8, 2010—Most sellers have an emotional connection to their home and feel it deserves top dollar when sold. Everyone naturally wants to get the most money for his or her product, but "sellers must not be hasty with this all-important decision," cautions real estate expert Robert Jenson, a CEO of a luxury Las Vegas real estate purveyor.

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	Third Time's a Charm - Experts Recommend Talking to at Least 3 Agents before Choosing One to Represent You RISMEDIA, September 8, 2010—In today’s real estate market, using the first real estate agent you speak to is a recipe for disaster for home buyers, according to the home-buying specialists at the National Association of Exclusive Buyer Agents, (NAEBA.org). For years, real estate sellers have been told to interview a number of agents before they pick one to list their home because of the difference in the service levels provided. However, most home buyers end up using the first real estate agent they meet.
	How to Add Resale Value to Your Home's Exterior RISMEDIA, September 8, 2010—Change the siding? Add new shrubbery? Replace the cracked sidewalk? When it comes time to enhance the curb appeal of your home, there are a multitude of improvement projects you can consider—but which ones will add the highest resale value to your home?
	4 Important Tips to Keep in Mind when Seeking Senior Housing RISMEDIA, September 8, 2010—People are living longer today. The century-long expansion in the world’s population that is 65 and older is the product of dramatic advances in medical science and health lifestyles. Currently, 13% of the U.S. population is 65 and older, up from 4% in 1900. As Baby Boomers turn 65 in high and higher annual numbers, it is estimated that one in five Americans will be over age 65 and about 5% over 85.

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