Your Questions About Real Estate, Buying, Selling, Renting, Leasing And Market.

Thomas asks…Why do the ads for foreclosed houses in the real estate market look so much worse than for the other houses?I have been looking for a house for abut six months. I have noticed whenever a foreclosed house hits the market the ad suddenly becomes awful. Pictures get out of focus and warped, information gets changed to reflect things that are not true. The location of the house is often wrong in the new ad including the map spot, zip code, even spelling of the town and street! This is

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Your Questions About Real Estate, Buying, Selling, Renting, Leasing And Market.

Betty asks…Can I get out of a real estate agent contract?We found a house we liked and contacted the listing adgent. We looked at the house and decidied to make an offer. Back and forth with counters until we felt like the adgent was ultimitly representing the seller. So we backed out. Now we found that the adgent had us sign a 6 month right to represent us. There are other listings by the same firm we would like to look at. Would she still be in the dual adgent mode? We just want someone who

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Your Questions About Real Estate, Buying, Selling, Renting, Leasing And Market.

Ruth asks…Whats the best way for a young Real Estate Agent without many connections in the business, get rental listing?I'm 19 year old Realtor in NYC. I love this job, and I definitely see myself doing this for a couple of more years. However I want to take it a step further and start building connections with landlords. What is the best way to get rental listings from Landlords. I ask some of the more veteran agents and they tell me it's through networking, or by people they just know that

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Your Questions About Real Estate, Buying, Selling, Renting, Leasing And Market.

Sandy asks…Anyone here in real estate?Is is smart to purchase a home without an agent? My husband and I were thinking about purchasing our first house but we had not applied for a home loan yet, we just talked about it. We browsed the internet for listings and spent a couple of our evening driving the see the properties. At this point we were getting a feel for the prices in our area, and what we liked. We saw a house for sale by owner. We called and asked too see the inside. When we did, we

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Your Questions About Real Estate, Buying, Selling, Renting, Leasing And Market.

Sharon asks…Help in real estate auction, helpful tips for a newbie?I've been looking into buying a house in the near future and consider going to an auction. So anyone can give me some tips that would be great.
Here's what I know:
Most places (such as a court auctions) you need cash although some other hosted auctions do have financing available. If it's a cash sale, is there some way can I get pre-approved from the bank and use that or it must be cash in full?
Despite the house going to

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Your Questions About Real Estate, Buying, Selling, Renting, Leasing And Market.

Michael asks…only allowed to see one Real estate agent when looking for apartments?I plan to move to a new state in the west to prepare for grad school next week, so I plan to drive from the east coast, leaving tomorrow.

I've been looking at apartment ads, but most of the listings are from Agents, and a few have asked if I'm seeing other agents as well. When I ask an Agent for listings, is it implied that I am only asking that person for help and not other Agents? I was hoping to get

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Your Questions About Real Estate, Buying, Selling, Renting, Leasing And Market.

William asks…Real Estate: probably a stupid question...but I need an answer...?Concerning home buying - I'm a first time buyer and not sure about some of the process...Can a realtor sell "any home" on the market, or will they only have access to homes listed through their agency ? Would they be open to arranging sales through other agencies ? The reason I ask, I have a great realtor in mind that I feel like will work hard for me, but the agency he is with seems to have minimal listings. Also

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