A Common Home Selling Myth

Looking to sell your San Diego home? Get a free home value report Buying a San Diego home? Search all homes for sale   One home selling “tip” that trips up many home sellers (and Realtors) and that I believe just doesn’t work is the idea of offering a carpet or decorating allowance. I won’t
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How Hiring a Minimum Wage Agent Costs You in the End

Looking to sell your San Diego home? Get a free home value report Buying a San Diego home? Search all homes for sale   If you are thinking of selling your home, you may think you’re saving money by hiring an agent who discounts his or her fee. However, that discount agent will actually cost
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Hide and Seek When Selling Your Home

Looking to sell your San Diego home? Get a free home value report Buying a San Diego home? Search all homes for sale   When it comes to selling your home, one of the things that goes into the process is playing hide and seek. What do I mean by that? Well, with your home
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Story Time With Gary: Dude, Where’s My Foreclosure?

Looking to sell your San Diego home? Get a free home value report Buying a San Diego home? Search all homes for sale   I’m back with another strange story from my years as a real estate agent. Years ago, there were foreclosures all over San Diego and the country. I had 40 to 50
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A Counterintuitive Home Staging Tip

Looking to sell your San Diego home? Get a free home value report Buying a San Diego home? Search all homes for sale   This may or may not apply to you, but if you are selling your home and you have older furniture that you don’t plan on taking to your new house, try
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Story Time With Gary: Agent in Hot Water

Looking to sell your San Diego home? Get a free home value report Buying a San Diego home? Search all homes for sale   Today I have another strange or weird story from my years working in real estate. This week’s story is a pretty short story, but it’s going back several years. A gentleman
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Understanding How People Shop for Homes

Looking to sell your San Diego home? Get a free home value report Buying a San Diego home? Search all homes for sale   When I got into real estate in 1984, the way people looked for homes was very, very different from how things are done today. Back then, information was more readily available
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Story Time With Gary: No Good Deed Goes Unpunished

Looking to sell your San Diego home? Get a free home value report Buying a San Diego home? Search all homes for sale   Welcome to the latest edition of “Story Time With Gary.” This one was relayed to me by a neighbor who was one of the original homeowners in a housing tract built
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Don’t Hire Your Barber to Sell Your Home

Looking to sell your San Diego home? Get a free home value report Buying a San Diego home? Search all homes for sale   About 10 years ago, I was talking to someone about a house that he had inherited. When he mentioned that he wanted to sell it, he said, “I’m probably going to use
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How to Get Your Offer Accepted in This Market

Looking to sell your San Diego home? Get a free home value report Buying a San Diego home? Search all homes for sale   You may be aware of this already, but we are still in a hot seller’s market here in San Diego. There is heavy competition out there for buyers, so a lot
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