text: Metro Detroit Real Estate Blog - Blog Archive: March, 2016
  How to Make Your Home Feel Happy to Potential Buyers
  Tuesday, March 29th, 2016 at 9:41am.
  How to Give Buyers a Positive Experience When Showing Your Home
  If you are ever a potential home buyer, you will want to walk into a listed home that feels like home and has positive energy. Similarly, when listing your home, you will want to make sure it has that appeal that you would be looking for as a buyer. In each room, there are specific things that can be done to make sure the mood is exactly where it should be.
  Feature shades of blue in the bedroom as this creates a calming mood. Hide any electronics, get rid of clutter, add dim switches to adjust lighting as needed. For an extra touch, add a lavender plant to promote the calming effect already created by the color.
  Be Bold in the Office
  Add purple to
  Tuesday, March 22nd, 2016 at 11:03am.
  One of the biggest, but easiest things you can do to improve the overall look of your home is to put on a fresh coat of paint. Paint can be expensive, however, you can go to your local home improvement store and buy unused paint that previous customers bought
  Thursday, March 17th, 2016 at 9:16am.
  Being Connected in Modern Real Estate
  Monday, March 14th, 2016 at 12:19pm.
  Networks in Modern Real Estate
  In today's real estate industry, it is just as important to maintain positive relationships with past clients as it is to acquire new ones. As it stands now, 72% of buyers looking for a new home say that would choose the same agent, though only 21-27% of these buyers actually choose their past agent. Being active online is crucial to keeping these great relationships with your existing clients - 92% of buyers utilize the internet in their purchasing endeavors and 87% of buyers use an agent.
  Tools for Building Connections
  Here are some ideas to connect with your clients via the internet to keep them in your loop:
  Free Resources: These can be anything from web domains to marketing websites.
  What is Escrow and How Does an Escrow Account Work?
  Thursday, March 10th, 2016 at 9:20am.
  When you're looking into becoming a homeowner, one word you'll hear a lot is escrow. The legal definition of escrow is to place (something) in custody or trust, but in essence, an escrow account is a holding account for the money involved in your real estate transaction. You can have escrow accounts before, during and after the sale.
  Most real estate transactions involve an escrow account, both during the sale and then once the sale is complete you and your lender will often have an escrow account to handle tax and insurance payments. Unless you waive escrow, when you make your monthly mortgage payment, your lender will retain a portion of your payment for property taxes, PMI, homeowners insurance and other fees, which will go into the escrow
  Monday, March 7th, 2016 at 10:32am.
  This is an exciting visual aid used to present information. If you notice clients asking similar questions about the listing or buying processes, for example, you can create infographics to effectively present