Can Interest Rate Buydowns Help Saratoga Home Sellers and Buyers?
Mortgage interest rates are currently low, but home sellers can give extra motivation to potential buyers their Saratoga home by offering an interest rate buydown. Private Mortgage Advisors, an affiliate of Wells Fargo Home Mortgage and Alain Pinel Realtors has a temporary rate buydown option that can lower home buyer’s…
Need Saratoga and Los Gatos Recycle Resources When Moving?
Are you moving and have good stuff left over after your garage or estate sale? If you have unwanted items that you don’t want to move, don’t throw them away- donate them! Reusing, reselling, recycling and donation saves these items from becoming waste in our landfills. There are many agencies…
How to Stage Your Home For Maximum Impact?
Here are three simple homeseller tips from professional stagers: Un-clutter, Neutralize, Create Impact. Rick Bonetti | Alain Pinel Realtors | 408-857-8800 | DRE#01237009…
Moving In the Moment
Several of my friends are in the process of moving. Some are going through divorces; others are wrapping up employment without clear-cut prospects of where they will be going next; some are embarking on the adventure of building their “dream home.” All this can add up to stress upon stress. This…
What a Difference Price Makes
I usually tell homesellers that there are fundamentally only two reasons why a home does not sell – it is either marketing or price. If after 2-3 weeks of good marketing a homeseller is still not getting showings (much less offers) then it is a good indication that the price needs to be adjusted. Pricing…
What a Difference Staging Makes
 The way someone lives in a home and the way it should be “staged” for sale are two different things. The staging process starts with depersonalization (removal of photos, religious symbols, kitchen convenience items, etc.) that helps the potential buyer not to be distracted by the personal effects of…
Save $$$ with an Assessment Revaluation
Since any increase or decrease in assessed value will impact the amount of property taxes you pay, it is very important to contact the Assessor’s Office if you feel that the assessed value exceeds the market value of your property. In Santa Clara County, a Notification of Assessed Value (indicating…
Virtual Staging Is The Latest In Real Estate Marketing
A recent Facebook post by blogger friend of mine, Mary Pope-Handy, highlighted a new service that adds digitized furniture to photos of vacant properties. Since furniture is not part of real estate this is not a deception, but is actually a helpful service that enables buyers to visualize what a…
A Christmas Tree in the Forest
Marketing is the “art” of being able to making something stand out as a “Christmas tree in a forest” and it is exposing that awareness to as broad a market as possible – people who have the capacity and inclination to buy. In real estate there is a “forest of…
For Sale or On Sale?
This past Tuesday I, along with 14 other Alain Pinel Realtors from the Saratoga office, attended a wonderful luncheon in our honor, at Cin-Cin Restaurant in Los Gatos, where we were recognized to be among the top 5% of Realtors at Alain Pinel and in Santa Clara County. Larry Knapp,…
