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How to Stage a Backyard to Sell!
When people choose to buy a house, if a yard is on their wish list, you must show off your prospective property in a way that makes them love your backyard at first glance. As crucial to staging a house correctly, curb appeal and your yard can be your most significant selling point.
5 Tips to Success:
1. Touch up the mulch. A simple way to make it clean and modern.
2. Look at the Sun Patterns. If your yard is hot in the afternoon, ensure shade for your possible new buyers.
3. Upgrade your shed- A cute shed can win the females’ purchase and have a lot of say in the purchase.
4. Add Outdoor Lighting – Some solar-paneled outdoor lighting in the backyard can give a great touch.
5. Realvitalize: TeamERA uses our Realogy program to use money in the closing cost to help you make your backyard shine.
Using an ERA Real Solution agent, you have a professional to help you navigate staging your backyard to make every buyer’s wish list. The realvitalize program allows you to use funds from your seller’s budget at closing to revamp parts of your home to help it sell faster.
Closing to Keys To-Do List.
There is so much to do when buying a house.
ERA Real Solutions Realty has created a buyer’s closing checklist. The list of things you need from close to getting the key to your new home. At the most exciting part of the process, there are a lot of errands and things you must have in order. You can prepare for some of these ahead of time, but others are based on a schedule. Have patience. Your new home is waiting.
Here are the things you need to do to succeed:
Before you Close
The list of errands that are the steps to success.
- Transfer Funds for Closing: Moving money makes the transaction more real.
- Change your address with USPC, Bank, etc.: Some homework that makes things easier later.
- Set up utilities to be transferred: We all need internet.
- Confirm all contingencies are resolved: Not sure what this means, but your real estate agent can help.
- Schedule a final walk-through: Make sure everything is as planned at the house.
Closing Day-What to Bring
It is nice to know what to bring on one of the biggest days in your life. The task list is below.
- Connect with the Lender to wire the correct funds.
- Bring printed confirmation of your wire transfer.
- Government Photo ID
- Social Security Number
- Home Addresses from the last ten years
- Proof of homeowners insurance
- Your copy of the contract
- Checkbook, Bank Check, ACH Check for payment under 10,000 and under
Closing Day
The day is here—the last four steps before getting the key to your new dream home.
- Sign Closing disclosure, Promissory Note, and all other documentation
- Title Transfer
- Deed Delivery
- Save Your Paperwork in a safe place
- Get Your Keys
Our checklist can help but sometimes, having a trusted professional who has the experience and a team selling homes for over 50 years on your side makes this checklist come with a seasoned coach.
Contact ERA Real Solutions to help you find your next home.
First Steps to Buying a Home!
Buying a home can be stressful. First Time Homebuyers or not, trends in society can be unpredictable, but if you start with this list as a guideline, the process becomes a checklist for each stage of the purchasing process.
How to Get to A Contract on a House?
Here are the things you need to do to succeed:
Preliminary
People like to skip one or all of these steps. Ultimately these three tasks give you the best approach to finding a home.
- Get Finances in order: Do you honestly know your credit score or monthly expenses?
- Obtain a pre-approval for a mortgage: Setting realistic expectations starts here.
- Pick a real estate agent: It takes a village and a villager who knows how.
Start the Search
The internet has given us a fall sense of expectations regarding shopping. Unfortunately, these steps can take longer than your Amazon Prime orders.
- Have an agent schedule showing: Some listings only make it to realtors.
- Find your dream home: Finding a home has some compromises.
Make an offer
Making an offer does not mean you will hear “yes.” This stage might be repeated more than any of us like during the purchasing process.
- Review Contract and Terms: Please read a legal document.
- Negotiate purchase price: No one likes no, but “yes” would be a reason to ask.
- Choose a Title Company: Ask your realtor for a referral.
- Shop for Home Insurance Options: Start with your rental insurance company.
- Prepare for the down payment/earnest money: Be able to have the funds accessible.
- Choose Target Closing Date: Make it work for you.
- Sign the Offer: Best Part
Under Contract
This is the checklist needed before you can close, divide and conquer.
- Deliver Escrow Check: Running an errand.
- Secure a home loan: Unless you are paying in cash, critical step.
- Acquire home insurance and send proof to the lender: Follow the directions.
- Schedule a home inspection: Real estate agent can help with this.
- Order an Appraisal: Get the information before this stage to have it ready.
- Conduct a Title Search: The title defines your property in a legal document.
- Verify Funds for Closing: Cart Review
- Schedule Closing: The Deadline
Our checklist can help but sometimes, having a trusted professional who has the experience and a team selling homes for over 50 years on your side makes this checklist come with a seasoned coach.
Contact ERA Real Solutions to help you find your next home.
The Complete Buyers Checklist from Search to Close
Are you a fan of checklists?
The ERA Real Solutions Realty Buyers Checklist gives the buying client the full list of what is needed, from the first thoughts you want to buy to what to bring on the day of the closing to be prepared. Our realtors know this list well and can help with every step. There are many steps in the process but use this list to navigate buying your next dream home.
ERA Real Solutions Buyers Checklist
Preliminary
- Get Finances in order
- Obtain a pre-approval for a mortgage
- Pick a real estate agent
Start the Search
- Have an agent schedule showings
- Find your dream home
Make an offer
- Review Contract and Terms
- Negotiate purchase price
- Choose a Title Company
- Shop for Home Insurance Options
- Prepare for the down payment/earnest money
- Choose Target Closing Date
- Sign the Offer
Under Contract
- Deliver Escrow Check
- Secure a home loan
- Acquire home insurance and send proof to the lender
- Schedule a home inspection
- Order an Appraisal
- Conduct a Title Search
- Verify Funds for Closing
- Schedule Closing
Before you Close
- Transfer Funds for Closing
- Change your address with USPC, Bank, etc
- Set up utilities to be transferred
- Confirm all contingencies are resolved
- Schedule a final walkthrough
Closing Day-What to Bring
- Connect with the Lender to wire the correct funds
- Bring printed confirmation of your wire transfer
- Government Photo ID
- Social Security Number
- Home Addresses from the last 10 years
- Proof of homeowners insurance
- Your copy of the contract
- Checkbook, Bank Check, ACH Check for payments under 10,000 and under
Closing Day
- Sign Closing disclosure, Promissory Note, and all other documentation
- Title Transfer
- Deed Delivery
- Save Your Paperwork in a safe place
- Get Your Keys
Do you like to have a paper copy?
ERA has been helping families for over 50 years. Contact our #ERATeam for help navigating your buying or selling real estate needs. Our commitment to our community and family is the same as we commit to our clients.
How do your traditions evolve in your home
Family traditions can come from our ancestry over the generations. Our homelands can have very cool practices, like food, dancing, and games, as our families grow by numbers, geography, or a crazy situation we can not control. Sharing these traditions always makes our homes feel full of love.
Did you know about these creative and fantastic Easter traditions?
Celebrating Easter is a weekend affair on the beautiful British island of Bermuda. According to Go to Bermuda, the island’s travel site, the festivities begin with the Good Friday KiteFest, which locals and visitors enjoy.
Some of us love getting dressed up, so why not include it in a fun way from these many countries that add customers to their Easter holiday?
Finland– traditionally dressed up as Easter witches, wearing colorful clothing with painted freckles on their cheeks.
Verges, Spain– To reenact scenes from the Passion, everyone dresses in skeleton costumes and parades through the streets. The procession ends with scary skeletons carrying boxes of ashes. The macabre dance begins at midnight and lasts three hours into the early morning.
Prizzi Sicily– “the Abballu de daivuli is a representation of devils from locals wearing terrifying masks of zinc and dressed in red robes,” according to The Telegraph. Those dressed in costume pester as many “souls” as possible (making them pay for drinks) before the afternoon when the Virgin Mary and the risen Christ save the day by sending the devils away with angels.
Don’t forget a fork if you’re in the southern French town of Haux on Easter Monday. According to Atlas Obscura, a giant omelet is served up in the town’s main square each year. And when we say giant, we mean huge: The omelet uses more than 15,000 eggs and feeds up to 1,000 people.
Easter has fun traditions of candy, bunnies, church, eggs, and family gatherings. Our family always does an egg toss to see the last pair standing to win the best leftovers to take home from grandmother’s house.
Join a Team Building Growth for Over 50 years!
Everyone wants to be with a company that is a cultural fit for themselves and the brand they wish to represent. The relationship between a company and its employees has changed in the last couple of decades. Becoming a realtor allows you to help your community grow and be on a team in the town and city you support. We have been learning about this growth from our leader, ERA.
“ERA Actual Property’s 50th birthday is a milestone to mirror the model’s modern historical past and thrilling future,” mentioned Sherry Chris, president, and CEO of ERA Actual Property. “ERA has always been a model of firsts, pioneering new enterprise fashions and know-how to push the trade ahead. Since 1972, the true property trade has seen an unbelievable change: new aggressive, monetary, and client dynamics have reworked how we do enterprise. ERA’s collaborative tradition and dedication to native communities have enabled our community to thrive over the previous 50 years and will likely be on the heart of ERA’s success within the many years to come back.”
The ERA Real Solutions Realty is proud to be a part of the ERA Family and #TeamERA. Our mission expresses our core beliefs for our community, new employees, and clients to know, educate, and provide the leading service in Florida, Kentucky, and Ohio.
As we grow, these fundamental values will stay true:
MISSION
Real Solution’s mission is to provide the best customer service to our real estate community.
VISION
Real Solutions will be the preferred choice for real estate services.
CORE VALUES
• We believe in honesty: To provide clarity, integrity, and respect.
• We believe in teamwork: Building and helping each other.
• We believe in the community: Our commitment to our community and our family is the same way we commit to our clients.
Becoming a part of #TeamERA is easy; contact our offices and learn how today. We are eager to mentor, train, and help grow our community from our realtors, charitable community drives, and love for our communities and those who live in them.
Should You Buy or Rent Your Vacation House?
One of the many dreams in real estate is to have a home on the beach. HGTV has four shows starting with the word beach and over 20 shows about finding the right beach oasis. People’s needs for this retreat can be anything from a pool, close to the beach, and a view. Buying a home is a personal decision and educating yourself is besting way to make the decision easier.
Here are five great references for you to help with:
1. Should you buy or rent a vacation home? From CNN!
https://www.cnn.com/2018/11/09/investing/buy-or-rent-vacation-home/index.html
2. Real Estate 101: Here’s What You Need to Know Before You Buy a Vacation. By: The Motley Fool.
3. Things to Consider Before Buying a Vacation Home. Read from US News and World Report
https://realestate.usnews.com/real-estate/articles/things-to-consider-before-buying-a-vacation-home
4. Economics of Buying a Beach House: Read Before You Buy from Investopedia.
5. Should I Buy a Vacation Home? By The Wall Street Journal.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/should-you-buy-a-vacation-home-11638458182
A House is A Not Home Without…
A house is just a physical structure, while a home is lived-in (often by a family) and full of memories. Says Wiki.
Have you ever asked someone what makes their house their home?
Everyone has a preference for their living space and what makes it comfortable. It can include living things like plants to your extended family. But your space is personal, and we know finding that area might consist of the list of the things you can not live without. For some people, that might include a neighborhood or price range, and sometimes the list might consist of a feature or a furry friend.
What Can You Not Live Without in Your Home?
1. Your People Are There-
I think that when you invite people to your home, you invite them to yourself.” – Oprah Winfrey
2. Your animals. They are always on the list of things that have a lot to do with our housing choices because they love us unconditionally.
3. A Pool- Some people need the escape to their watery fun daily.
4. A Farmhouse Kitchen- Kitchens are a big thing.
5. A yard- Having family gatherings in your BBQ Grilling paradise for many is one of the more sacred things for some owners.
6. A Doorman- Some people find their needs are more urban-filled. Not worrying about packages, maintenance, and garbage might be your idea of pure bliss.
7. A Fireplace
This feature, synonymous with winter and ski lodges, can be calming in the most modern downtown lofts.
8. A Beach View- What isn’t amazing about the ocean?
9. A feeling- Maybe you want your place a little haunted like Ghosts, but being at home for some of us is feeling.
10. A luxurious Bathroom- Rain Shower or Bust!
Have An Alternative Need!
No matter what is on your list of must-haves, we want you to have a house that makes you feel at home. We can help find you the best place for your definition of home.
Kay was honored!
Cincinnati, OH (February 2022) — ERA Real Solutions Realty is pleased to recognize the appointment of Kay Edwards as Director of the CABR Board.
Kay was recently honored as the 2016 CABR Realtor of the Year. She supports Operation Sunshine and RPAC and has also served on various committees and as Chairman of the Circle of Excellence and Communications Committees. She now hopes to represent you as a Director, and her goal is to voice the agents to the board leadership.
“We are beyond excited for Kay as she becomes the Cincinnati Area Board President. Kay is a true professional and respected by many in the industry. The board is lucky to have her at the helm. I can’t wait to see her in action.” – Jeremy Raby, President, Principle Broker ERA Real Solutions Realty.
“I am very proud and honored to be the new director. Thank you, everyone, who has made this moment possible. As agents navigate through this unprecedented time in real estate, The CABR Board is here to lead, train and support the agents in the Cincinnati area. I encourage all agents to get involved in enhancing knowledge, networking, and local advocacy in our community.” she added.
Cincinnati Area Board of REALTORS®: Cincinnati Area Board of REALTORS® commits to fostering a culture where diversity and inclusion are integrated into each of our three core services – Connections, Advocacy, & Professionalism.
About ERA Real Solutions Realty: ERA Real Solutions Realty has a passion for giving families their dream homes in Cincinnati, Ohio, and Florida. 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.”
The Calming Hues of Blues in a Home!
Did You Ever Notice How the Color of the Beach and the Color of Winter share the same color scheme?
The color we love at the beach has the same color palette as the season that most people dread. We have all watched a House Hunter episode where the person is mortified by the color of in one of the rooms and cannot see past it. Paint is the most straightforward home task. Painting is a great staging addition to helping your home sell in any environment.
The right feeling to make your home serene starts with these three colors. Using blue, white, and beige can transform your space into a neutral warm space that makes any buyers want to buy on the spot. Cool colors and neutral colors can make you feel calm. The fewer colors you combine and a minimalist style creates a feeling of home for most potential buyers.
Three Tint Tones
A tint of Sky Blue Like the Ocean
The colors of water and sky are the blue tints that make us crave a vacation house. If matching outright isn’t your style, then using hues and tints of your favorite landscape can create a similar positive effect. Do you have a favorite tint of blue?
Three Things of White
Too much of white stuff in the winter and too much white in a beach cottage is a real thing. White is hard to keep sparkling new so use the right hints of white with paint, pillows, and furniture to pull the right amount of white in a room. No one wants a washed-out room with no personality. Red appliances, painted furniture, accent pillows, and wood can be a simple way to do this.
Beige has relaxing and comforting influences and encourages feelings of warmth and calmness. Beige also promotes a general sense of neutrality and impartial thinking.
