1. Six Reasons to Use a Realtor
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... call, email and fax. Think of a Realtor® as your personal home sales assistant.   Reason #6 - Realtors®  are experienced negotiators. Realtors®  can help avoid costly errors during the negotiation phase ...

2. No Time like the First Time
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... emotion, and a touch of anxiety. To help keep you sleeping soundly, here are answers to three big questions that concern many potential first-time homeowners. Question #1: How do I decide what to look ...

3. When the Brood leaves the Nest
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... Working with an experienced real estate professional who listens to your needs and understands the market can help shorten your search for the home that is right for you. Choosing the right real estate ...

4. Service Is Golden: Real Estate Programs to Put Seniors' Minds at Ease
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... (SRES) designation qualifies professionals to answer the many questions on the minds of mature customers contemplating their retirement moves. SRES holders can help guide you through the complexities ...

5. Playing It Safe: Security Measures for Homesellers
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Today we're all more conscious of security, and while we can all get impatient at its inconveniences from time to time, we are often thankful for the greater worries it helps us avoid. Selling a home is ...

6. A Good Showing: Dressing Your House for Sales Success
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... buyers to envision placing their own possessions there. Put some things in storage if you need to, or hold a garage sale to help cut down on some of the build-up you were going to clear out for moving ...

7. The Price Is Right: Finding Home Financing to Suit Every Budget
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... at ERA Mortgage can help you determine your financial abilities and meet your financing needs. ERA Mortgage offers over 100 products, including loans designed especially for first-time homebuyers or even ...

8. First Time's the Charm: Tips for Beginning Homebuyers
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... that in 2001 (the most recent year for which figures are available), first-timers made up nearly half of all homebuyers. If so many made the move, you can too. Chances are they did it with the help of ...

9. Getting It Right the Second Time: To Remodel or Not to Remodel
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... area is willing to pay. To make sure all of your domestic dreams are good ones, do some planning and consider consulting a real estate professional (who can help with everything from architect referrals ...

10. Career Path: Becoming a Realtor
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... do. It's worth asking, both for focusing the real estate agent on how to get the most out of his or her profession and do the best for his or her customers, and for the customers themselves, to help them ...

11. Doubling Your Investment: Do Income-Generating Properties Pay?
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... this can lower your taxes on that income. At the same time, the rent's addition to your finances helps you qualify for a larger mortgage, and investors who occupy their rental properties can, under certain ...

12. New Kid on the Block: Moving With Children
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... at each stage of the move. They don't have to get a vote, but it helps everyone for them to get increasingly used to the idea of this change. Bring them along when you look at houses, make them familiar ...

13. Confidence Builder: Make the Most of Newly-Constructed Homes
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... future home's plans. Such options can help the consumer build their house to their every preference, while making it as accommodating in real life as it is promising on paper. There are ways to minimize ...

14. Paying It Forward: How Renters Become Buyers
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... ensuring stability and enjoyment over the longest term – involves many moves both major and simple, and can help prepare you for that first down payment. On the simple end, rediscovering home cooking ...

15. Making Your (Dog) House a Home: Moving With Less Stress for Your Pets
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... are coming and going from your house more than usual, and reduce the danger of a scared cat hiding itself in the moving boxes with potentially tragic results. Such precautions help calm your pet for the ...

16. Staying Power: The Joys and Challenges of Historic Homes
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... a house by your own effort, and restoring an example of America's past that can help keep us mindful and proud of our heritage. Also, where there are historic homes there are likely to be whole historic ...

17. The Healthy Home: Minimizing Household Health Risks
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... and, if your current or new home gets its water from a well, be sure to have it tested regularly. Consult a local real estate professional for help in honing in on how to make the house you seek the safest ...

18. Using Your Energy Wisely: Alternative Energy in the Home
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... help make your next house the home of the future. Alternative energy gives new meaning to the real estate mantra of – what works in sunny California may be different from what works on the windy plains. ...

19. How Accessibility Features Can Serve Homeowners of All Ages and Abilities
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We all need a helping hand from time to time, but prefer to remain as independent as possible. Accessible features in a home are a way of lending ourselves a hand, and staying in our own house for much ...