If you want to sell your home faster and for more money, staging can help. Kitchens present lots of staging opportunities for home sellers. Clean, organized, and pleasant-smelling kitchens are the most attractive to home buyers.
When a divorce involves citizens from two different countries, the U.S. courts may favor the American. Nevertheless, the other spouse should still hire a divorce attorney to ensure that his or her interests are addressed in divorce court. Even if the American spouse threatens to take ownership of their joint property, the other spouse is not without options. He or she can hire a divorce attorney to ensure that the divorce settlement is fair.
If you are ready for retirement, should consider selling your home before moving into a retirement community? And what about selling a home in this market - can it be done? You can still sell a home quickly if you focus on doing some home improvements to make it stand out out, including landscaping. And when buying a home for retirement, if you have equity, there are several options, including a home equity loan, interest-only or a low interest adjustable rate mortgage.
When you get divorced you may have to sell your home. Depending on how the home was owned each spouse should receive a fair share of the home sale profits. If during the sale, your former spouse forges your signature on the home sale documents, it may be considered fraud. It's critical that you meet with a divorce attorney to understand your rights and ensure that you get the money that's due to you and the money from the home sale is handled correctly for taxes.
When you're selling your home you may want to hold an open house. Watch out for people who claim to have more money than they do - they may be trying to scam you out of your home. One sign of this real estate scam is that the prospective buyers cannot provide identification.
A home buyer lives in a duplex next to a noisy neighbor. He wonders if the seller should have told him about the noisy neighbor. The buyer spoke to the neighbor but it did not help.
A home buyer discovers his air conditioning unit that he thought was new is now broken and wants to hold the seller accountable for not disclosing it. If the buyer can prove the seller intentionally didn't disclose the age of the air conditioner, he may be able to sue the seller for damages. To win a seller disclosure case, you must prove that the seller knew, or should have known, about a particular problem.
A real estate short sale may be the only option for this new real estate investor. Many new real estate investors did not anticipate the down turn in the market and now owe more on a property than it is worth and are being forced to negotiate a short sale. If the mortgage lender accepts the short sale, the real estate investor may still be required to pay out of pocket for other expenses.
