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Why be a Snowbird, Buy Your 2nd home in Paradise
After the holiday season and the Groundhog shadow indicating six more weeks of winter, you envision flocking with the birds north and south to their favorite migration patterns. The snowbird mentality can come from too much snow in your yard, thoughts of beaches at Spring Break, or just the need for warmth or sunlight, but the urge is just the same as an instinct.
While driving during this time, you might see the same pattern that describes the snowbirds’ trademark style in an RV. Like a V pattern migration of the Canadian goose, RVs’ train on the roads south is an instinct that started in the 1920s.
This time of the year, our corporate calls with our Florida family are happily tucked away in the warmth of sunshine in their state, as the rest of us frown at the thoughts of six more weeks of cold and snow. The daydreaming of a vacation comes second nature.
There are many top Beaches in Fort Myers that they can use all year round.
From Beachfront Bargain to Million Dollar Listing, beachfront homes are for everyone, and if you want to be the traditional snowbird or have a second home on the sand. ERA Real Solutions Realty has real estate agents who understand both needs and markets that make both your families safe.
From Home to National Vacation:
It doesn’t matter what type of snowbird you want to be; make sure your vacation drive isn’t like this National Lampoons.
We laugh and joke about how funny the scene in National Lampoon Christmas Vacation is when the family car ends up under a log truck; however, the long drive of migration from north to south to warmer climates is nothing new.
But why not try something new? Find a home in your paradise spot instead of just vacationing there.
Do You Know Our Beach Front Family? Right Choice Realty ERA Powered
Right Choice Realty ERA Powered is a locally owned and operated ERA (Anywhere) franchise. Right Choice Realty ERA Powered has been representing Southwest Florida residential real estate clients since 2007. With over 200 agents in 3 offices and growing, Right Choice Realty ERA Powered is one of the largest real estate firms in the region and is positioned for continued and significant growth on all fronts. Realogy is the nation’s largest residential real estate franchisor, and ERA is its fastest-growing brand. ERA operates in 31 countries, and 44 US states, has over 2,300 offices, and has 36,000+ affiliated sales agents. The Best of Both Worlds A hometown company with International ties. You can count on our team to perform with accuracy and integrity. We pride ourselves on maintaining a high level of service for everyone – buyers, sellers, and renters alike. With over 10+ years of experience in the real estate industry, we’ve learned a fundamental lesson. This is a people business. If you’re not happy, we’re not satisfied. Whether you’re renting or working with us to buy and sell real estate, we bring our best to the table. If you would like to learn more about us or what we do, don’t hesitate to get in touch with us today. Visit our sales website to learn more about our real estate services and listings. We are eager to assist with all of your housing needs.
The First House You Call Home
Buying a house to make your home for the first time has great returns emotionally and financially. Having a place to call home is a dream for many. The decision is considered the most significant purchase in most people’s lives. Do you know what to think when it comes to this purchase? Getting a great realtor is essential, but start here with our first-time buyer’s tips.
5 Tips For First-Time Home Buyers
- Know your financial situation
- Put at least a 20% down payment
- Select the mortgage type
- Observe carefully
- Consider the total cost
The home should be the treasure chest of living.”
And know your compromise list?
Read our blog on determining what makes your house your home: What Can You Not Live Without in Your Home?
Home is where my habits have a habitat.”
Becoming a Real Estate Agent, What you Should Know
There are many terms in the real estate world. Agents and Brokers are the two types of real estate terms that most consumers do not understand. A real estate agent also holds a state license, which requires fewer education hours and a less rigorous exam than a broker’s. They also can represent buyers or sellers.
The National Association of Realtors is a well-established union since 1908 in Chicago, Illinois. Their purpose of helping consumers buy and sell homes throughout the United States. With 120 founding members, 19 Boards, and one state association, the National Association of Real Estate Exchanges’ objective was “to unite the real estate men of America for the purpose of effectively exerting a combined influence upon matters affecting real estate interests.”
Becoming a real estate agent has many tasks to complete. The most important is passing the real estate exams in your state, which educated the new agent on the laws that affect buying and selling homes in their market.
For years, the real estate industry has been balancing working from everywhere and has many great techniques and training to make sure you become the best agents.
Some necessary skills needed for success:
1. Communication Skills
3. Negotiation Skills
4. Persistence
What is excellent about this skill set is that it does not need to be something you come to the job with! Skills like these are learned, and with over 100 years of experience, the team you are joining is ready to drive your real estate dreams to success.
Whether you are an introvert or extrovert, people get great satisfaction most days by being altruistic to others. Making people’s dreams come true by helping them navigate one of the largest purchases of their lives with ease is the core of the unity created in Chicago so many years ago. Finding them the place to grow their family is becomes a personal connection that some people need with their career.
Your Dream for a New Job Matches ERA Solutions Realty’s passion for giving families their dream homes. Want to become an agent? Contact ERA Real Solutions. ERA Real Solutions is a top-10 ERA franchise systems brokerage. Our boutique approach allows us to run at a 98.7% customer satisfaction rating. Our high-quality, full-time agents have quickly made us “The New Standard in Real Estate.”
What is Your New Year’s Resolution for Your Home?
Another way to have a resolution that will benefit you and your family can start with where you call home. It can be a family resolution for a cozy, safe, or new space. It can be organizing the mud room or buying your dream home this year. We know New Year’s resolutions are personal, just like the places we call home.
- Do you need to Organize and Declutter?
From Good Housekeeping to Real Simple, organizing and decluttering our home is an excellent solution for your home and can be a great family resolution.
- Start with One Room at a time.
One step at a time is always good advice. Like any resolution, completing them is often determined by what you.
- Renovating a Space?
The new year is a great time to plan and coordinate the schedule. For example, changing your backyard or bathroom, painting or remodeling a room for further use can be immense tasks as resolutions but can create the desired need to make your home personalized to your style.
- Selling Your Home
You need to understand what selling your home will entail. You have a checklist for you.
- Buy Your Dream Home
Do you know what defines your dream home? When you are ready with your must-list, contact #teamera, and we can assist you. Start here!
Or
Do You Just Love Real Estate?
Maybe, your love for homes means you should become a real estate agent. Loving your community and helping homeowners find their dream homes. Contact us Today!
Having Our Home Holiday Ready: Crib Edition
During the holidays, there are expectations about when to put up the Christmas tree, the best appetizer to bring, and what you can tackle before the holiday begins. From the smell of pies to the light twinking in the newly darkened sunset skies, the holidays come with fun, challenges, and the making of memories.
Things to Remember About Your Home Needs During the Holidays
- Start Now!
No matter how you spend your time, starting early and working towards your goal is excellent advice from The Spruce. Some of us are procrastinators. Some of us are social butterflies. Time flies during the holiday season. If you plan now, the holidays can be exactly how you pictured, as perfect as the Hallmark Channel movie you wanted last night.
You shouldn’t plan a home renovation just because guests are coming. Still, if you’re already itching to get new appliances or replace your floors, the finite timeline that comes with holiday hosting might be the nudge you need to make those updates finally.
2. Declutter and Get Ready!
Pottery Barn has excellent tips and tricks for holiday fun in your home, and it brings us to one of the more important things we forget cleaning out the drawers for guests and decluttering in general. The irony is no one uses these items much anymore, but our memories sometimes hold us for decluttering. How can you declutter and keep the memory; Be Creative!
Sometimes hiring someone who likes the holidays, knows the industry, or can help you navigate a crazy time is a great way to help you with the nerves on the holidays. The holidays pull out our most potent memories of families, and moving from a house during this time can be even more stressful to pack your home during a time that evokes a large amount of happiness. Having a family or team behind you and helping you find what you need to succeed during the holidays is essential.
Ordering dinner, hire a personal shopper and a realtor if you are selling your home during this holiday to make sure someone is on your side when finding a house that will give you the same feelings as you as the home you are selling.
TeamERA is here during the holidays or any time of the year to help our community deal with the changes that come with finding and selling your home. We love the communities we call home, so we are happy to help families feel the same feelings they might miss.
Where to Buy a Haunted House?
We all know the houses in our neighborhood that scare us as children. Even the White House is considered a haunted house in the United States. Could you live in a haunted house, and even more importantly, how much would you spend?
Haunted House on Sale Right Now: Six Houses in Ohio
1. Springfield, Ohio https://spookyhousesforsale.com/springfield-oh-189900/
2. Columbus, Ohio https://spookyhousesforsale.com/columbus-oh-877000/
3. Ironton, OH https://spookyhousesforsale.com/ironton-oh-152500/
4. Delaware, OH https://spookyhousesforsale.com/deleware-oh-299000/
5. Washington Court House, OH https://spookyhousesforsale.com/washington-court-house-oh-75000/
6. Sidney, OH https://spookyhousesforsale.com/sidney-oh-189000/
The site is updated and organized by the state where you want to live. Our sister state, Florida, is not even listed. Spooky or Safe?
It all depends on how scared you want to be; however, they have some famous listings.
Check out our Cribs Edition: Haunted Houses Blog!
Sweet Wings Recipes for the Fall Football
Did You Know?
The average American eats 90 chicken wings a year.
As we approach fall, we thought we’d share some of our top recipes featuring chicken, vegan options, and air fryer cooking methods that incorporate honey. Wings are a common pastime during this time of year and can come in a variety of flavors. For those looking for a festive, authentic holiday flavor, honey is the perfect ingredient to add. Below are some of our favorite honey wing recipes.
1. Lemon Pepper Chicken Wings With Hot Honey Glaze
2. Vegan Cauliflower Wings with Honey Garlic Sauce
4. Korean Buffalo Mushroom Wings
6. Hot Honey Butter Chicken Wings in the Air Fryer
One honeybee produces about 1/12 of a teaspoon of honey in her lifetime, which lasts about six weeks. A beehive can produce up to 150kg of honey annually.
Back-to-School List: Become A Realtor
Why Becoming a Realtor Might be On Your Back-to-School List?
Now that we have a newfound love for our teachers and schools that hold our children during the day, not every parent is ready for an empty home each day.
Families are expensive, and your family comes first, but being a realtor in your neighborhood could be an easy way to add money for your next vacation.
1. We Provide Training
2. We Mentor You
3. We Let You Make Your Schedule
4. We Know You Love Your Community- That is Why Your Family Is Here.
Why not use your free time and conversation at school events? Being seen in the community is the best networking a realtor has; as parents, this is on your to-do list. So why not be able to make some extra cash talking real estate with the parent’s committee? The conversation leads to your home, yard, commute, family needs, and what school is best for your new pre-schooler. The discussion about houses and who is moving is a topic of conversation often.
If you need a new job or extra money for the family, becoming a realtor in your community might be able to fill the void of the children at school and your bank account.
Contact someone from ERA Real Solutions Realty and work with a team who knows why listing can be the best thing all year.
Tips for Selling Your Home During the Fall
As the school year starts again and the Friday Night Lights shine across the evening horizon, the list of things you must prepare during this time seems longer than the summer nights.
Changing the leaves brings some great sales and opportunities in real estate ventures.
Selling your home before the holiday and winter season is ideal. There usually is less competition in the market during this time of the year.
Top Leader Tips to Win the Fall Sale!
1. HGTV reminds us that lightning inside and outside can set the tone of your property.
Fall means shorter days, with evening light disappearing more and more each night. So, it’s essential to brighten up your house. It will help buyers see all your home’s great features and make it look inviting from the street.
2. The House Digest says to embrace the season décor.
3. Expert Bob Vila says Focus on the Furnace.
(Mysterious clunking noises will turn buyers off.) The right temperature house can make all the difference; have a professional check the system and change the filter.
ERA Real Solutions agree that lightning, seasonal décor, and warmth should be on your list of things to check before clients visit your home. These steps help make your home ready for sale. Need help to sell your home this fall? Contact Team ERA. Our decades of knowledge can help you sell your home and get situated before the holiday season.
Seller’s List for Getting Your House Ready
Are you outgrowing your home? If you have moved before, you can understand why many people do not sell their homes until they have no choice. Everyone has a different line. However, we know being prepared and having a list can help organize the thoughts of selling our home to a more calming state, along with our first recommendation; get professional help.
Meet With a Real Estate Professional
1. Find a Market Analysis
2. Pre-listing inspection
3. Gather your paperwork
4. Establish A Price
Prepare Your Home
1. Curb Appeal
2. Clean the Home
3. Make updates and repairs.
4. Clean, depersonalize & declutter (a.k.a., stage)
5. Remove the proof of pets
6. Get Photos done
List for Sale
1. Help your real estate agent promote your listing
2. Check your listing for accuracy
3. Keep your house ready for showings
Offers and Negotiation
1. Agree on an escrow agent
2. Prepare for a final walkthrough
Under Contract
1. Work through the negotiations.
2. Agree to the conditions and terms of the contract.
3. Pick a move Out Date
Final Details
1. Inspection completed
2. Request final utility readings
3. Finalize Mortgage details
4. Final Walkthrough of the home
Closing: What You Need
1. Driver’s license/ID
2. The deed to your home
3. Purchase contract
4. Money Arrangements with the Buyer
5. Your keys to the home
6. Final utility bills that need to be settled/paid
An ERA Real Solutions agent in your corner to help you prepare for selling your home is key to a booming seller’s experience. We know your community and the ins and outs of the real estate market. ERA Real Solutions Realty specializes in real estate and homes for sale and ensures your list of needs is met when selling your home.
