Seller motivation: ‘Have to’ versus ‘want to’ sellers

Takeaways:

• Seller motivation is big for your real estate business.
• The important factors that determine how motivated any particular seller might be.
• Unmotivated sellers have a “take it or leave it” attitude, and that can result in expired listings.

If you want to be a top producer, then you’ve got to buckle down and focus your efforts on the dollar-productive tasks most likely to generate a financial return.


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Whether They Rent or Buy, Millennials Don't Want to Drive!

There are more Millennials than there are boomers or Gen Xers, which may be one reason we in the real estate industry are so laser-focused on engaging them. We hear these 16- to 34-year-olds mostly live at home. (And not just the teenage ones!) Sometimes we hear they actually like the burbs. Reports say changes to down payment requirements may actually push them into the real estate market. City planners and developers take note: Millennials want to walk.

That’s the word from Tuesday’s report from the National Association of Realtors® and the Transportation Research and Education Center at Portland State University, which states that “millennials prefer walking over driving by a substantially wider margin than any other generation.” They surveyed 3,000 adult Americans in the 50 biggest metro areas.

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Expect the Unexpected When Buying a Home.

5 Unexpected Lessons When Buying a Home (From People Who’ve Done It Before)

Like so many (if not all!) first-time home buyers, I have no earthly idea what I’m doing. Sure, I can read up on all the buying and finance advice we offer here at realtor.com®. Of course, I can consult with my real estate agent and my mortgage broker. But if there’s one thing I keep hearing from those who’ve forged the path ahead of me, it’s that when you buy a home for the first time, you’re constantly faced with things you didn’t know you didn’t know.

So, before I embark, I thought I’d minimize some of those surprises and take advantage of my home-owning co-workers’ experience. They shared these personal anecdotes of surprises they encountered on the road to homeownership. I hope this will help prepare you—and me—for what lies ahead:


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Your Home Buying Experience at it's Finest



3 Home Improvement Projects that Last a Lifetime

Thinking of remodeling your home? Before you splurge on a finished basement or a new kitchen, make sure you choose a home improvement project that will add to your home's lifetime value. Check out Remodeling Magazine's 2015 Cost vs. Value report for projects with the highest ROI. Three home improvement projects we like:

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Mortgage applications jump a solid 4.7% in last week of July

Mortgage applications increased 4.7% from one week earlier, according to data from the Mortgage Bankers Association’s Weekly Mortgage Applications Survey for the week ending July 31, 2015.

The Market Composite Index, a measure of mortgage loan application volume, increased 4.7% on a seasonally adjusted basis from one week earlier. On an unadjusted basis, the Index increased 5% compared with the previous week.

The Refinance Index increased 6% from the previous week. The seasonally adjusted Purchase Index increased 3% from one week earlier. The unadjusted Purchase Index increased 3% compared with the previous week and was 23% higher than the same week one year ago.

“Despite recent concerns about the economy, both purchase and refinance applications increased strongly in response to lower interest rates last week,” said Lynn Fisher, MBA’s Vice President of Research and Economics. “Refinance activity was the highest since May when rates were last at this level. The increase in purchase activity was also notable for this time of year, up 23% relative to a year ago.”

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56 Safety Tips for REALTORS®

Share knowledge, awareness, and empowerment with your members year-round

Keep a strong focus on REALTOR® Safety throughout the year when you share these safety tips with your members every week. You can post them on your website, add them to your newsletters, or email them directly to your members.

Feel free to re-arrange the tips if you like. Regardless of when you send them, these weekly tips will help remind our members of the tenets of REALTOR® Safety: knowledge, awareness, and empowerment.

All tips are taken from NAR's REALTOR® Safety Resource Kit. Direct your members to your own association website or to NAR's safety web pages at www.REALTOR.org/Safetyfor more information on the important topic of REALTOR® safety.

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Folsom, CA 95630

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Sierra Pacific Mortgage

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Folsom, CA 95630

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Why You Shoud Be Your Own Landlord!

Super basements proliferate in Silicon Valley

MENLO PARK, CALIF. 

When architect Roger Kohler began designing them years ago, basements weren't luxury statements.

He would tuck a subterranean guest room here, a mechanical room there. The lighting was only adequate, the ceilings sometimes just 7 feet high. You practically had to stoop while walking through: "It was grim," he said.

But it's dank and dark no more.

"You see the light in here? It's incredible," Kohler said, walking through a client's sunny - yes, sunny - basement, all 2,200 square feet of it, airy with 9 1/2-foot ceilings. There's a fitness center with a row of exercise machines, flat-screen TV and plush armchairs for hanging out. There's a window-lined living room and a spacious bedroom with glass doors opening onto a European-style courtyard that sits at the base of a 12-foot whitewashed retention wall.

Dig, dig, dig.

There was a time when California houses often sat on concrete slabs. Now basements are everywhere as land values skyrocket in Silicon Valley and around the Bay Area.

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