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Nolo’s Real Estate Tips for Home Buyers. Online Fun for Homebuyers. May 27, 2011. Few Real Estate Agents Write "Just Right" Marketing Prose. Have you noticed how agent-speak, as seen in real estate ads, tends to be either over the top or underwhelming? More often the former, of course. Just looking at today's local real estate section, it's easy to pull out grand, sweeping, and did I mention grand, statements like:. Spectacular views and magical sunsets! Okay, now that's something an agent might say to a...
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Looking Past the Staging: Lesson 1 for Buyers - Nolo’s Real Estate Tips for Home Buyers
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Nolo’s Real Estate Tips for Home Buyers. Apr 27, 2011. Looking Past the Staging: Lesson 1 for Buyers. In more and more parts of the United States, the days of walking into a home for sale and seeing kids' photos, favorite team pennants on the walls, and a kitty litter box in the bathroom are long gone. Do I encourage staging for sellers? Absolutely: I've seen it produce fast sales at full price or above in too many cases to doubt its effectiveness. Maybe not. Using pint-sized furniture is a common wa...
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Nolo’s Real Estate Tips for Home Buyers. June 6, 2011. Houses With No Fix-Up Responsibilities Don't Exist! The decision of where to live in retirement is tough enough by itself. But when you've got two spouses who disagree on priorities, the stress levels can shoot through the roof. I had to bite my tongue - though it's the wife I'd really like to give some commonsense advice to (assuming hubby is telling the straight story). First off, a house that doesn't need fixing? It doesn't exist. Older houses...
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Visiting Open Houses? Ask Questions! - Nolo’s Real Estate Tips for Home Buyers
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Nolo’s Real Estate Tips for Home Buyers. Apr 04, 2011. I've started engaging in one of my favorite springtime hobbies: visiting open houses. I'm not alone, either - I was literally bumping elbows with other visitors on the staircases. Some of the visitors looked genuinely interested in the homes, a few were conferring seriously with their agents in the corner, and others were probably nosy neighbors just like me. For example, by asking "What's going to happen to that vacant lot behind that back fence?
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Nolo’s Real Estate Tips for Home Buyers. June 6, 2011. Houses With No Fix-Up Responsibilities Don't Exist! The decision of where to live in retirement is tough enough by itself. But when you've got two spouses who disagree on priorities, the stress levels can shoot through the roof. I had to bite my tongue - though it's the wife I'd really like to give some commonsense advice to (assuming hubby is telling the straight story). First off, a house that doesn't need fixing? It doesn't exist. Older houses...
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Houses With No Fix-Up Responsibilities Don't Exist! - Nolo’s Real Estate Tips for Home Buyers
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Nolo’s Real Estate Tips for Home Buyers. Jun 06, 2011. Houses With No Fix-Up Responsibilities Don't Exist! The decision of where to live in retirement is tough enough by itself. But when you've got two spouses who disagree on priorities, the stress levels can shoot through the roof. I had to bite my tongue - though it's the wife I'd really like to give some commonsense advice to (assuming hubby is telling the straight story). First off, a house that doesn't need fixing? It doesn't exist. Older houses...
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Nolo’s Real Estate Tips for Home Buyers. May 13, 2011. Real Estate Agents Developing Specialties. Just as with flavors and caffeine levels of soda pop, the choices to be made among real estate agents has expanded over the years - despite, or maybe because of, the down economy. As Marilyn Kennedy Melia points out in her article, " 1. Change, 2. Choices. You can now find agents to help with short sales, foreclosures, buying or selling a "green" home, and more. Buyers have leverage in today's market, and th...
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Real Estate Agents Developing Specialties - Nolo’s Real Estate Tips for Home Buyers
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Nolo’s Real Estate Tips for Home Buyers. May 13, 2011. Real Estate Agents Developing Specialties. Just as with flavors and caffeine levels of soda pop, the choices to be made among real estate agents has expanded over the years - despite, or maybe because of, the down economy. As Marilyn Kennedy Melia points out in her article, " 1. Change, 2. Choices. You can now find agents to help with short sales, foreclosures, buying or selling a "green" home, and more. Buyers have leverage in today's market, and th...
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Ninth Circuit Asks California Supreme Court to Weigh in on Prop 8 Standing Question - Queer Justice: Nolo's LGBT Law Blog
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Queer Justice: Nolo's LGBT Law Blog. Jan 05, 2011. Ninth Circuit Asks California Supreme Court to Weigh in on Prop 8 Standing Question. The question of standing. To the California Supremes- that's lawyer talk for asking another court to rule on something. Posted by Emily Doskow. Posted In: Civil Rights. Click here to contact us. Subscribe to this blog's feed. Nolo’s Small Business Legal Blog. Nolo's Bankruptcy and Foreclosure Blog. Nolo's Fundraising Tips for Busy Nonprofits. The Sharing Solution Blog.
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USCIS Hold Ends As Quickly As It Began - Queer Justice: Nolo's LGBT Law Blog
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Queer Justice: Nolo's LGBT Law Blog. Mar 30, 2011. USCIS Hold Ends As Quickly As It Began. Just two days ago, I blogged. About an announcement from the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services ( USCIS. That it would put on hold decisions about cases involving same-sex binational couples- a seeming big step away from the discriminatory policies based on the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) that have previously dominated the agency's decision-making. Here's an informative Daily Beast story. Not necessarily&...
