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The Future of Home Selling Is Near Sep. 20, 2022
Dear Monty: You wrote an article about technology replacing real estate agents last fall. It was a v... Read More
How To Decide to Convert Your Home to A Two-Family House Aug. 23, 2022
Dear Monty: I need to find out if I can convert my single-family home into a two-family. The second ... Read More
Five Options to Consider When a Real Estate Agent Violates the Rules Aug. 16, 2022
Dear Monty: Can a real estate agent from the brokerage agency of the seller outbid your offer withou... Read More
Six Options When Your Offers Are Losing Jul. 05, 2022
Dear Monty: We have made offers on four homes. Our agent says that people are buying them for cash a... Read More
Five Options to Sidestep Dealing With a Relative Jun. 14, 2022
Dear Monty: We are planning on selling our home soon. My wife's sister has a son that is a real esta... Read More
Five Low-Cost Ways to Add Value When Selling a Home May. 17, 2022
Dear Monty: We are considering a lifestyle change that involves selling our home. There is advice ev... Read More
Eight Reasons to Have a Pre-sale Home Inspection May. 03, 2022
Dear Monty: We are going to sell our home soon. In preparing the house, we are interviewing real est... Read More
Rethink Avoiding Your Agent to Sell Directly to a Friend Apr. 19, 2022
DEAR MONTY: I am selling my home through an agent, and I verbally agreed to a price from a guy who l... Read More
Agent and Lender Fraud? Apr. 12, 2022
Dear Monty: We are suspicious of our home sale. We found out our agent (No. 2) and the buyer were fr... Read More
A New Real Estate Agent Questions Her Decision Mar. 22, 2022
Dear Monty: I am a new agent. A relative asked me to co-list their home with an agent they knew. We ... Read More
What's the Chance There's a Home Defect? Feb. 22, 2022
Dear Monty: The house seller wants me to release him from all claims after closing. This action soun... Read More
Family Real Estate Transactions Need Independent Guidance Feb. 15, 2022
Dear Monty: I have two brothers, Bill and Jerry. Bill and Jerry purchased a property together in Oct... Read More
Eight Essential Tips When Dealing with City Hall Feb. 08, 2022
Dear Monty: We bought our home in 2018. My mother purchased the plot directly behind our property an... Read More
Five Variables When Saving a Home Down Payment Feb. 01, 2022
Dear Monty: Our New Year's resolution for 2022 is to save up a down payment to buy a home. We are no... Read More
Is It Ethical to Negotiate the Agent's Commission? Jan. 18, 2022
Dear Monty: My wife and I are in the process of downsizing. We have shopped neighborhoods and have c... Read More
How To Make an Offer on a Home Aug. 10, 2021
Dear Monty: We are first-time home buyers. Being rookies, we get lots of advice from family and frie... Read More
Where Would I Move and Why? May. 11, 2021
Times have changed, and people don't move around like they used to. It's a big commitment to sell yo... Read More
How to Sell Sep. 15, 2019
Dear Edith: My wife and I are approaching our 80s and thinking about selling our cottage. It is on t... Read More
What About Tipping? Aug. 25, 2019
Dear Edith: We are buying our first house, and we're both so pleased with the extra help our real es... Read More
A Short Listing Is Not the Way to Motivate your Agent Aug. 17, 2019
There is nothing wrong about being savvy and having an escape strategy for if you find that the real... Read More
