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^This is a great piece of advice in any market. Where I do business, loads of potential buyers are hardly willing to paint let alone do more substantial updates
by poulsbohemian 4y ago
^This is a great piece of advice in any market. Where I do business, loads of potential buyers are hardly willing to paint let alone do more substantial updates, so they continue to rent and believe they are getting priced out of the market. Meanwhile, I could show them dozens of perfectly good starter homes if they were willing to build some sweat equity. Too many people believe their first or even second home purchase should be their "dream home" but that's not a realistic perspective on housing for the majority.
- thehappypm 4y agoOne of my realtors once said that they had a client who refused to move into a place that didn’t have granite countertops. Like seriously.. replacing a countertop is not hard!
- poulsbohemian 4y agoI just got off the phone with a first time buyer. Thinks he has to be in expensive area X, where his budget will get him a junker, but I could take him a ten minute drive away to area Y where he could buy a great starter home. But no, that area isn’t cool enough. And rates of appreciation in both areas are basically the same.
- prottog 4y agoThe real estate trilemma: affordable, high quality of life, near good jobs; pick no more than two. (Or have the government mandate that it's all three, somehow.)
- thehappypm 4y agoDoes the school district have something to do with it?