Selling my Fort Lauderdale Home 

I am assuming when you go to place your Fort Lauderdale Home or Condominium on the market, you will be seeking the highest price you can possibly get for your Ft. Lauderdale property. There are simple ways to improve your chances, without investing a great deal of time or money.

You do not need to be skilled in carpentry or plumbing, to make your Ft. Lauderdale property stand out from all the Fort Lauderdale area homes and condominiums for sale. Modest effort, a few common tools, and a great marketing campaign can help you to make your homes stand out in what is basically the beauty contest of Fort Lauderdale Real Estate.

The first thing a potential buyer will notice when they come to visit your Fort Lauderdale Home is…

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Selecting the Realtor with the right tool box ! 

When you are hiring realtors to sell your home in the Fort Lauderdale Real Estate market you need to be diligent to look in their toolbox. Is there a digital camera, is there a video camera ? What is their internet marketing strategy to get your home in front of the 80% of buyers who would rather not call a Realtor till their ready to buy? If you hear things mentioned in my paragraph about old tools, chances are you have a very nice realtor in front of you who has not yet embraced the new technology needed. If you start to hear words that are a bit foreign to you and the realtor starts talking about their new tools with excitement, you may…

5 Simple Home Staging Tips

When it comes to getting your home sold, you need to do everything possible to set your home apart from other homes that are on the market. Furthermore, you need to present your home in the best light possible, which means adding a few extra touches that will make your home more appealing to potential buyers. This process of creating a more appealing home is known as staging and here are 5 simple things you can do to help your home sell.

Home Staging Tip #1: Create Curb Appeal

The first time a potential buyer drives by or up to your home, you want it to leave a good impression. Therefore, you should take steps to make the exterior of your home stand out and look great. To do this, you might need to make a few minor…

Buyer’s Market Versus Seller’s Market If you have been paying closer attention to the housing market over the last several months, you have probably been hearing the term “buyer’s market” getting tossed around from time to time. In fact, many experts have been encouraging people to make a home purchase based on the fact that it is currently a “buyer’s market.” But, what exactly is a buyer’s market and how is it different from a seller’s market? Buyer’s Market As the name suggests, a buyer’s market is a market that favors the buyer. When used in reference to the real estate industry, a buyer’s market occurs when there are more homes available for purchase than there are people interested in buying. With an overabundance of inventory on the market, it…

Real Estate 101: Keys to a Quick Sale

If you are getting ready to put your home on the market, you want to be sure to do everything possible to help get the property sold quickly. After all, not only is a quick sell the more convenient option for you, but statistics have shown that homes that remain on the market for too long command a much lower selling price. Therefore, it is important to do everything possible to get the home to sell quickly.

When it comes to getting your home sold quickly, there are three primary things to keep in mind: presentation, pricing and accessibility. Clearly, the more presentable your home is to the potential buyer, the more likely the buyer is to make an offer. Therefore, you should do everything possible to make certain…

Fort Lauderdale Real Estate

Thinking of Selling Your Fort Lauderdale Home or Condominium, please remember you are about to enter a local beautiful contest in the pre-qualification round.

There are some simple things you can do once you have decided to place your home on the market that will help you sell you home. These are hard things to discuss as we all live differently. However, once you have decided to sell, its time to compete with other sellers in the Fort Lauderdale Real Estate market for the buyers attention. Every contestant gets a little help winning their first beauty contest and that's exactly what we are doing.

The reason I decided to write this story today is I went out buyers ( judges ) all day yesterday, looking at Fort Lauderdale…

Every Fort Lauderale Real Estate blog has a posting, as of late, about a new law that went in to effect on July 1st, 2010, called the Florida Condominium Relief Act. 

I am going to be very brief about what the act does and then tell you a story about how common sense has won out.

The law allows for condominium associations, where a unit is rented but the landlord is not paying the monthly maintenance payments to require the tenant to pay the rent monies to the condominium until the landlord is up-to date. Common sense has won out.

It is has been shocking to watch Fort Lauderdale Condominiums  pay for the maintenance of beautiful amenities while the people using them were renting from landlords not paying their bills. This new law is changing this…

Short Sale Success !

Villas of Harbor Isles Condominium, Dania Beach, Florida

 

Eric Miller and Associates of Keller Williams Realty Professioanls Fort Lauderdale is please to announce that they have closed and completed a short sale at Villas of Harbor Isles Condo. This short sale did involve the negotation of mortgages with two banks. The condominium association was paid completely, and the entire deal was a win-win for the seller, the buyer, the bank, and the community. The condominium which sold for $325,000 in 2005, sold as a short sale for $149,901. Short Sales like this are truely helping to stablize the Fort Lauderdale Real Estate market, as they serve to avoid the lenghty process of foreclosurer.

Eric Miller and Associates are here to help…

As I continue to expand and provide the finest and most complete information for my customers and visitors, I am pleased to announce a new section of the website: Fort Lauderdale Real Estate Articles

To start this new section off, I've just posted a new article for your convenience:

Swimming the English Channel for a client and the Value of a Great Realtor

As the real estate market all over the country became to rumble, and turmoil set in a client of mine said some things to me that I remember to this day. Some were his own thoughts about my performance as a Fort Lauderdale Realtor, and others were thoughts of an older gentlemen that he had met in his Fort Lauderdale Real Estate travels. 

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Ft. Lauderdale Statistics are Looking Good  

If you are thinking of looking for Homes for Sale in Ft. Lauderdale you may want to speak to a local expert with local numbers. 

Yesterday people who follow national real estate trends heard a number that housing starts had dropped 10% last month and reacted with gloom and doom.  I know that the housing starts number is a reflection of employment in the construction industry and we need employment to start growing. However, wouldn't it also make sense that for exsisting housing inventories  to shrink, housing resales to pick up, and prices to stablize, starts would have to drop. In the Fort Lauderdale Real Estate Market the housing starts number has never been a measure of the health of our market. With…