Managing Expectations: How Not to Get Your Bubble Burst When Selling Your Home
Expectations; also sometimes known as assumptions. Like a couple other things in life, everyone has them (expectations, that is). And, if you’re smart (and I’m betting you are), you already know that...
View ArticleManaging Expectations: How Not to Get Your Bubble Burst When Selling Your Home
Expectations; also sometimes known as assumptions. Like a couple other things in life, everyone has them (expectations, that is). And, if you’re smart (and I’m betting you are), you already know that...
View ArticleIn Defense of Lynchburg: What to do when someone doesn’t appreciate the very...
Okay, so first off, I don’t actually sell Lynchburg. Well, I suppose it’s more accurate to say in some ways I do and in some I don’t. What I do is sell homes, or actually help people buy and sell...
View ArticleWhat Did You Expect?
Oh, how quickly we forget. Remember that time, when you were around 8 or 9 and your friend got a puppy? So you went to your parents and asked if you could have a puppy. And what did they tell you? “A...
View ArticleThree BIG Gifts That Give Back to Your Home’s Value
It’s that time of year. The season during which we are inundated with articles, advertising images and other assorted marketing paraphernalia all geared towards helping us spend our money in search of...
View ArticleJust Give Me The Bottom Line: Preparing for the Unknown Costs of Selling Your...
I recently had to buy a new vehicle (okay, I didn’t HAVE to, but it was time). Not brand new, mind you—just new to me and my family. We ended up buying this vehicle out of state and driving it back...
View ArticleChanges In The World Of Real Estate Listing Sites
In the world of real estate—specifically the world of real estate agents—there’s been a lot of talk lately about the recent merger of Zillow and Trulia. The two companies combined, and although they’ll...
View ArticleCommercial Real Estate Lingo: A Cap Rate Primer
BY BILLY HANSEN As a local commercial real estate appraiser and agent, I spend the majority of my working hours thinking about, writing about and talking about commercial real estate with colleagues,...
View ArticleThe World At Our Doorstep
By Dan Vollmer I grew up in New Jersey. I’ll give you a second to insert a joke here—it’s usually “You mean New Joyy-zee?” or “Get stabbed with any needles at the beach lately?” (New Jersey jokes are...
View ArticleSmart Financing Options: A Story of First Time Home Buyers
By Dan Vollmer When I typically sit down to write this column, I look back over the recent interactions I’ve had with my clients. I think about the advice I’ve given, about situations I have...
View ArticleNearing the End of the Third Quarter…Are YOU ready to get in the game?
By Dan Vollmer As I write this, football season officially kicks off in just over a week, which, to many of us, is the unofficial start of fall (and fortunately, Daylight Savings isn’t until November...
View Article“A Pile Of Sticks, Bricks & Mortar…” A somewhat sentimental perspective for...
By Dan Vollmer When I was a kid, we lived not more than 15 minutes from both sets of grandparents. On Thanksgiving, we would first go to my grandparents on my dad’s side for dinner, which was usually...
View ArticleGetting Good Reviews: Where is the real estate market heading this year?
By Dan Vollmer, Associate Broker, ReMax 1st Olympic Remember back to your middle and high school days, when everyone came back from Christmas break? Two things happened: First, everyone got to show off...
View ArticleCovering All Your Bases: Tips on Structuring a 4-part Financing Contingency
By Dan Vollmer Okay, so if you’re like most people, you probably haven’t spent much time reading over real estate contracts lately. Contracts which, over the past 20 years, have grown from two pages to...
View ArticlePeaks & Valleys or Mountains vs. Molehills
How the Local Market “Behaves” May Be Different than you Expect Lots of folks move to Lynchburg from outside the area, many even from outside the state. They arrive in our fair city with their...
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