Expert Advice from Amy & Kyle Bergquist at Keller Williams Legacy Partners
As a buyer’s agent, I’m on the lookout for interesting houses for my clients – their personal shopper in the real estate markets. I’m their eyes and ears on the ground, monitoring the new listings, checking out properties in person, and asking about other opportunities. There are many reasons why this can be helpful to buyers, but here are two biggies. Properties show up and disappear from the public websites differently than on the MLS
This lovely ranch offers a wonderful opportunity for one floor living in a serene, private setting. The home has 3 bedrooms and 2 baths over 2,064 sqft. A warm, welcoming brick exterior offers low maintenance and charm. Inside you’ll find a combination living room and dining room with a wood burning fireplace, perfect for your gatherings of family and friends. The kitchen is updated and provides space for working and eating. An oversized family room
Most people have a favorite house style. Ranches, capes, colonials, contemporaries, bungalows, split levels, tudors, farm houses, raised ranches, victorians- and a few others I’m surely forgetting. There is a house type for everyone and each of these styles have unique layouts and design features. When we work with buyers sometimes they are familiar with house styles and sometimes they are not. For example, we often find that buyers don’t realize that capes usually have
Pricing a house is all about using “comparable sales.” We always try to compare similar properties and the more similar the better. There is rarely a perfect match, but we can usually get pretty close. It seems to me that in evaluating a city we should be using a similar approach. When comparing our area to others around the country, we need to be comparing like to like. The current dust-up about Hartford being a
I’ve seen patchwork quilts, but had never seen a patchwork roof before. Until last week in West Hartford… From what I can tell from the picture, it looks like a minimum of 8 different types of roofing shingles have been used at various times in this roof’s life. Quite a piece of art!