Experts agree, buying or selling a home is a complicated and lengthy process you enter into to achieve your ultimate goal. Experience has proven that knowledge is your best ally in successfully navigating your way through this process. Because this specialized knowledge is camouflaged in myth, misinformation, misplaced trust and confusion, personally investing time in acquiring and applying the knowledge is the surest and safest way to proceed. Without this knowledge, the probability of long delays, unnecessary risks, simple yet costly errors and high levels of frustration increase exponentially.
A Better Way To Approach A Real Estate Transaction. “If you always do what you always did, you will always get what you always got”. The real estate transaction is a process. It is a series of smaller transactions, each very crucial for different reasons. Each smaller transaction requires specialized knowledge of how that individual part works into the larger transaction. To make confident decisions one has to understand each of the smaller parts and the different ways they impact the process. Only by accepting this elementary fact, choosing your agent carefully yet retaining personal responsibility over the outcome can we break the pattern. Click here to learn the details.
Let’s look at some specific questions sent in by DearMonty readers from across the country. Read more Q&A articles about the “Planning with Experts” stage of the Home Selling process:
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Oregon Home Sellers: How to File an Agent Complaint
Q: How do I file a complaint against my listing agent in Bend, Oregon? We sold our home 3 months ago, and a neighbor who works in real estate just told us he submitted a second, higher offer for his client to our agent a couple of days before we accepted our agent’s buyer’s offer.…
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Global Turmoil and Housing: Should Nervous Sellers Hold or Move?
Q: Monty, we own a home and are thinking of upgrading to a larger home. I say thinking, because there is recent history of bubbles, and now with global dissension and wars, are we on the bubble? Your caution is well-placed, but the picture is more nuanced than headlines suggest. Let me offer you…
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Does for-sale-by-owner (FSBO) work?
Dear Monty: Does for-sale-by-owner (FSBO) work? I recently read an article that lambasted homeowners for even thinking about selling on their own. We recently sold our home without an agent. The article did not depict how the marketplace works today, based on my recent experience. I saw it as a hit-piece written by a…
