Aug 2, 2012 | BUYER'S ADVICE, MIAMI REAL ESTATE
By counter-offering, you temporarily relinquish ‘control’. Power moves to the other party … who can accept, decline, counter back, or withdraw entirely (moving on to another property … or another buyer). Unlikely scenario, although we just...
Jul 20, 2012 | JUST FOR FUN, MIAMI REAL ESTATE
Since there are ‘new rules’ for posting … I will follow them. (Recipe hereby included!) Okay …. Google is seemingly flawless. After being gifted a loaf of delicious pumpkin bread that Penny and Simon mentioned being Monastery or...
Jul 19, 2012 | MIAMI REAL ESTATE, STAGING/DECORATING
If you follow our real estate blog, MiamiRealEstateCafe.com you may have read other articles on staging and interior design. Interior decorating is for a home that’s to be lived in. It’s entirely another design concept to “stage” a home in...
Jul 17, 2012 | BUYER'S ADVICE, MIAMI MARKET CONDITIONS, MIAMI REAL ESTATE
With our markedly diminished “inventory” of homes available for sale in Miami … buyers find themselves (more often than they’d like!) bidding against one another for real estate. Unless your offer is trumped by another bidder, or you are...
Jul 9, 2012 | MIAMI REAL ESTATE, SELLER'S ADVICE
I showed two rather similar homes to a client a few months back … same vicinity/neighborhood, similar in size, age, amenities, lay-out, price, and curb appeal and design. One house, she loved. The other she didn’t. She couldn’t put her finger on...
