Expert Advice from Amy & Kyle Bergquist at Keller Williams Legacy Partners
I would just like to thank all of the neighbors and friends that came to our home yesterday for our annual Holiday Open House party. It was wonderful to see everyone, catch up on what’s new, and enjoy some warm food and drink. We are most thankful for the donations you brought for our annual contribution to Foodshare. My car was jammed full today when I dropped off our donations at the Bloomfield warehouse. The
The end of the year is always busy with professionals relocating for work, as hiring managers rush to use the remainder of their budget or as they prepare for new budget funds that will be available with the coming of a new year. When you receive your job offer from an employer and you need to move a substantial distance away from your current location, you’ll typically be presented with a relocation package. This will
I don’t know what’s going on lately, but in the past few months I’ve gotten several calls from real estate agents that have clients interested in my listings and they’d like me to present verbal offers to my sellers. Verbal offers are not standard practice when selling real estate in Hartford County. The Greater Hartford Association of Realtors has a standard purchase and sale contract that is used to write and present offers on properties.
November and December are traditionally slow months for real estate sales. People would rather focus on the various holidays, rather than think about buying and selling houses. Well, this year things appear to have slowed a little bit earlier than usual. Based on the towns I’m tracking below, the number of closed sales for single family homes was down 31% overall when comparing November 2008 to November 2007. That’s fairly significant. Here are the monthly
Gallup recently released the 2008 results of their annual Honesty and Ethics of Professions poll. Real estate agents came out in the middle of the pack of the polled professions, with the majority of those polled indicating that they felt the real estate profession has average integrity. This year’s results are not substantially different for real estate agents than surveys of years past. I never used to think much about these polls when I worked