SELLERS: 5 Musts for Generating Multiple Offers

As you might have heard by now, multiple offers are the new black. Well - kind of; if your own home is on the market or soon to be, it can seem like you break your back to prepare your home and it lags and lags on the market while all the cool kids houses and their sellers sit...

4 Secret Ways to Beat Other Offers

To every thing, the songwriter says, there is a season. (Turn, turn, turn.) This Spring, the real estate market in many places seems to be thawing out of an extended winter straight into a hot market of buyer activity. The upshot for sellers is great: shorter times on the market,...

7 Factors of the ‘Just-Right’ List Price

A famous little blonde girl of fairy-tale lore made it look like child’s play to master the art of finding the ‘just-right’ solution to her various lifestyle challenges (e.g., finding a bowl of porridge, a chair and a bed that suited her fancy). In the real-life world of...

5 'Verbal Staging' Statements Sellers Should Make

A few weeks back, we talked all about (and I mean all about!) statements sellers should avoid making while they’re engaged in what I like to call ‘verbal staging:’ drafting the listing description and marketing materials that create prospective buyers’ expectations about...

5 Best Practices for Decoding Disclosures

Long, small-print disclosure forms are simply a part of American life. We are given disclosures for everything from toothpaste to field trips to parking lots and gyms - even concert tickets and carpet cleanings come with disclosures and waiver forms. Disclosures are such a universal...

5 Shockingly Selfish Reasons to Go Green At Home

On Earth Day, much press is given to all the altruistic reasons we should watch our energy consumption and carbon footprints. From those baby polar bears stranded on icecaps to visions of our grandchildren's grandchildren living on the Atlantic Coast of Montana, the unselfish...

Latest Report from the National Association of Realtors

Existing-Home Sales Rise Again in January, Inventory Down Washington, DC, February 22, 2012 Existing-home sales rose in January, marking three gains in the past four months, while inventories continued to improve, according to the National Association of Realtors®. Total existing-home...

5 Negotiating Need-to-Knows

From AskTara@Trulia Reactions to the prospect of negotiating run the gamut, almost like a Rorschach of people’s comfort levels when it comes to thinking, talking and asserting themselves about money matters. Some people get so excited about haggling they adopt an entirely new...

6 Turnoffs for Buyers and Sellers

I want to share this as I found this to be very interesting and informative for my buyers and sellers. Written by AskTara@Trulia In the wild world of dating, when you encounter a “turn-off,” you can just pack it in and not to go on another date with that guy or gal again....

SeaGlassProperties.com – Web Updates

We have added a few new features to our site to enhance your experience while searching for homes: #1. New Listings display on the homepage: view the newest listings on the market from St. Thomas, St. John, St. Croix, and Water Island. You can also click here: #2. Puerto Rico...