Make Tucson Your Home

Placement, Price, and Percetion are three factors when selling your home.  If you are looking to make your next move, consider the following:

PLACEMENT – Is your home placed in an area that will brng a certain group of buyers?  You may need to re-evaluate your community.  Communities change throughout the years.  Family neighborhoods can turn into retirement neighborhoods and vis versa.  Families traditionally move between school breaks.  If you neighborhood attracts a leisurely lifestyle, consider placing your home on the market in late summer when people are starting to think about coming to the southwest.

PRICE – Price your house to sell.  When a house stays on the market too long, you loose your enthusiasm for your house and it will show when buyers walk through.    With the changes in the Appraisal Data Set in September, 2011,  you will be given points for the updated kitchen, larger lot, vast views, and more.  I guess what I am saying is don’t price your house too low and base it on the short sales and foreclosures in the area.

PERCEPTION:  This is about changing the way people see things in your home, shifting attitudes, and gaining recognition for what you have.  When homes are streamlines with no clutter, minimal memorabilia, the house provides a safe haven for the buyer to look around and feel at home.   Make your countertops, flooring, walls, and baseboards immaculate.  Immaculate homes provide the buyer an understanding that the home was well taken care of.

Real Estate Word of the Month:  SITUS

The personal preference of people for one area over another, not necessarily based on objective facts and knowledge.

Here’s To Your Health

Real Estate is like a piece of art.  It is there to enjoy and appreciate.  Appreciation and enjoyment are strong tools for being healthy in your home.  Make sure you look around your home periodically and appreciate the architecture, furnishings, and most of all the people that live in it, including yourself!

Happy New Year 2012!!

Through my Open Houses I am talking to many out of town visitors.  I ask them, as well as asking you to picture your next lifestyle.  What does it look like?  Do you see yourself entertaining family and friends?   Are you more interested in getting away from it all and retreating to something cozy and small.  Are you interested in the arts?  Do you want to be able to have easy access to hiking trails?  Start making a list of what it is that you want and then share it with me through my contact page.  I can then begin to start searching for that next home. 

Waking up to snow capped mountains and turquoise skies reconfirms why I live in this beautiful area.    Our winter residents are back and we could not be happier.    With this bright picture, you are probably wondering what really is going on in real estate here.  Read more…