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Real Estate Market Update, Colorado – May, 2013



April 26, 2020Everyone will likely agree that the real estate market here has shown excellent signs of recovery.  The return back to a thriving market in Colorado has not come without some challenges. Real Estate Market Update The first challenge is the inventory shortage we are seeing in many areas of Colorado.  It is widespread and the cause is easy to identify, savvy homeowners have, up to this...
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Using An buyer’s agent – A Great Experience



April 20, 2020Using an exclusive buyers agent will turn a daunting real estate acquisition into a great experience.  It seems strange that with all of the new technology available, our lives don’t really seem to be getting any easier. Nor our schedules becoming any more manageable.  A top exclusive buyers agent will be able to read this about you immediately. He may be able to step up and help in ways you...
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The Importance of buyer’s agents Negotiation Skills



April 16, 2020One of the most important qualifications of an exclusive buyer agent is the ability to negotiate. The comprehension of what is involved in the negotiating process does not make an agent a skillful negotiator. It also requires preparation and skill to be a great negotiator. Each negotiation will be different but there are keys to guarantee success and it also needs other areas of expertise learned...

Buyers Agents Will Take You Across The Finish Line!



May 9, 2013Top Buyers Agents will help you all the way through your home buying process - click below to watch our...

Home Buyers: You Don’t Want to be an Agent’s “Aha moment.”



October 15, 2010I read a blog by Lenn Harley describing experienced buyer's agent’s strategy to address home repairs. An experienced agent knows when a repair should be included in the Contract of Sale, or when it should be addressed after the Contract has been accepted during the Inspection Resolution period. This is just another important reason to work with an experienced agent, and equally important, that...

Home Shopping without an buyer’s agent is like Reading your Own X-Ray



September 27, 2010We just recently had a house guest who is a very dear friend of the family, who is in his fourth year of medical school.  We were talking about the term “gestalt.” According to Wikipedia is the concept that “The whole is greater than the sum of the parts.”  It is the idea that a few lines and curves can be recognized as a figure.   For example, a few lines and a circle could be...

Why work with an buyer’s agent?



September 20, 2010I had such a great experience working with our exclusive buyers' agent that I take for granted that anyone buying a home would make the same decision and work with an agent. But I forget that there was a time that I considered, even temporarily, that I might want to just “save money” by buying a house without an agent.   It makes me smile and laugh at myself to think about that.  After...