jseville's Blog: Real Estate Strategies

One of the most uncomfortable parts of purchasing a home is signing the Northern Virginia real estate regional sales contract.  Allow me to fix that....

Let's go through the contract and quickly cover the parts that matter most to you in advance so you it doesn't feel like a surreal and dangerous event when it comes time to sign on the dotted line so to speak when me make our aggressive offer on your preferred home.

For a paragraph by paragraph analysis of the Northern virginia real estate regional sales contract go to my blog and read its 2 parts concerning Arlington real estate.

What is the best way to sell an Arlington VA condo?  Should one hire a "high powered" listing agent you see in the paper to get the job done for 6%?  I think not....






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Those of you considering buying a home in a competitive market (sellers’ market) know or may have heard how brutal the process can be. In certain markets a buyer can find himself competing against 3-18 other offers for almost any listing that he write on with many of the offers being similar in terms of price. However there are steps you can take to position yourself well to win a bidding war. And the discipline and thoroughness to do so is well worth the effort given the weeks and months of extra labor involved for you and the selling agent (buyer’s agent) that would come if you just wrote standard offers on listings you found appealing.

Before I list the variables to manipulate to your advantage one thing is certain. You need a selling agent…