Real Estate Blog - What topics would you like to see?

[Anonymous]

I have a real estate blog and I'm looking for topics that local buyers and sellers would deem useful. I realize I could troll this forum for ideas (and sometimes I do), but as a time saver do you all have any burning questions that you'd like to see explained by professionals? Thank you in advance!

[Anonymous]

Link to your blog?

[Anonymous]

What should a seller look for in a good real estate agent/company:

--professional photos
--3-D tour
--Showing service
--reduced commission
--CAD layout of house
--professional brochures
--well-written blurb
--electronic and in-person agent communication
--original agent at closing

These are all the services that I received with a discount broker. House sold in less than a week.

[jsteele]

Anonymous wrote:Link to your blog?

Please don't. Then we would have every third poster here posting links to their blogs.

[Anonymous]

jsteele wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Link to your blog?

Please don't. Then we would have every third poster here posting links to their blogs.

Sorry, remove it. I read your post after I posted.

[Anonymous]

If you specialize in communities, blog about things like community events. Maybe provide a tutorial on how swimming pools work in this area. Try to get evergreen content.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What should a seller look for in a good real estate agent/company:

--professional photos
--3-D tour
--Showing service
--reduced commission
--CAD layout of house
--professional brochures
--well-written blurb
--electronic and in-person agent communication
--original agent at closing

These are all the services that I received with a discount broker. House sold in less than a week.

These are great suggestions! Thank you! I have no doubt that your house sold so quickly because of all this fantastic marketing.

When you say "discount broker" - is that just because you paid less than 6% or is that how they advertise themselves? What percentage did you pay?

[Anonymous]

I just wanted to see what he's already gleaned from DCUM already from previous posts like this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I just wanted to see what he's already gleaned from DCUM already from previous posts like this.

Since I can't post the link, here are some I've already covered:
5 Steps to Prepare for Buying your First Home
5 Reasons 2015 will be a great year for Real Estate
Home Owners Insurance 101
Who pays buyer agent commission?
5 Tips to Prevent Identity Theft
Factors in your FICO

I'm pretty new to DCUM and I started my blog in December 2014. I don't mind spending a decent amount of time writing blogs that people will find useful, so I was just looking for recommendations so as not to waste my time on stuff people really don't care about.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I just wanted to see what he's already gleaned from DCUM already from previous posts like this.

Since I can't post the link, here are some I've already covered:
5 Steps to Prepare for Buying your First Home
5 Reasons 2015 will be a great year for Real Estate
Home Owners Insurance 101
Who pays buyer agent commission?
5 Tips to Prevent Identity Theft
Factors in your FICO

I'm pretty new to DCUM and I started my blog in December 2014. I don't mind spending a decent amount of time writing blogs that people will find useful, so I was just looking for recommendations so as not to waste my time on stuff people really don't care about.

Those don't really strike me as blog fodder. They're fairly generic topics... Try to be original, offer some actual insights.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What should a seller look for in a good real estate agent/company:

--professional photos
--3-D tour
--Showing service
--reduced commission
--CAD layout of house
--professional brochures
--well-written blurb
--electronic and in-person agent communication
--original agent at closing

These are all the services that I received with a discount broker. House sold in less than a week.

These are great suggestions! Thank you! I have no doubt that your house sold so quickly because of all this fantastic marketing.

When you say "discount broker" - is that just because you paid less than 6% or is that how they advertise themselves? What percentage did you pay?

I paid 2.5 to the buyer's agent and 1 percent to the selling agent. Due to location of the home, I knew the house would sell so there was no need to pay more in commission. I used RedFin. I interviewed about 5 agents before decided on RedFin.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What should a seller look for in a good real estate agent/company:

--professional photos
--3-D tour
--Showing service
--reduced commission
--CAD layout of house
--professional brochures
--well-written blurb
--electronic and in-person agent communication
--original agent at closing

These are all the services that I received with a discount broker. House sold in less than a week.

These are great suggestions! Thank you! I have no doubt that your house sold so quickly because of all this fantastic marketing.

When you say "discount broker" - is that just because you paid less than 6% or is that how they advertise themselves? What percentage did you pay?

I paid 2.5 to the buyer's agent and 1 percent to the selling agent. Due to location of the home, I knew the house would sell so there was no need to pay more in commission. I used RedFin. I interviewed about 5 agents before decided on RedFin.

Interesting, so for 3.5% - you got full-service. Was there anything about the transaction that you didn't like or that you thought could have been better? Did you also buy a home from the same agent?

[Anonymous]

How about realistic expectations of what you can get for your money? Try and dispel the HGTV effect.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How about realistic expectations of what you can get for your money? Try and dispel the HGTV effect.

Now that's a good topic. Including, you have to actually budget for and pay your architects and other design professionals, and they don't do all their work instantaneously, like on TV.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How about realistic expectations of what you can get for your money? Try and dispel the HGTV effect.

Good one. Thank you! Especially, in the DMV. Nothing like watching people on HGTV purchasing mansions for $300k in Montana when you can't even buy can't buy a decent single family for that around here. Maybe a median home prices guide for various DMV cities for 3b/2b SFHs would be interesting?