Seattle Luxury Neighborhoods: Choosing the Right Area
Evaluating Where To Live And Selecting A Luxury Neighborhood In Seattle, Bellevue, or Everett, Washington
Evaluating Where To Live And Selecting A Luxury Neighborhood In Seattle, Bellevue, or Everett, Washington
You can throw a rock and hit a real estate broker in Shoreline, WA. (But please don’t – I bruise easily. :))
Yes, I’m joking, but it seems like everyone knows a realtor or two. According to one article from a few years back, in King County alone there are there are over seventeen thousand real estate agents. It’s easy for home buyers to think every real estate agent is basically the same – desperate, clingy, fake and too salesly. After all – we use the same MLS service, the same yard-sign services… what does one really do different than another?
Okay, Shoreline, WA home buyers… Have you heard horror stories about buyers trying to get a home under contract, and ending up in a bidding war – with the same seller receiving, three, seven, even a dozen offers on their home for sale? We all know the whole Seattle has a real estate market is … Continued
If you are thinking about selling your Shoreline, Washington home in today’s hot market, you may be wondering whether you need to get an inspection done on your home before it goes on the market.
Or you may not – after all, aren’t BUYERS supposed to be the ones getting the inspections before they buy a house? Well, yes and no… the inspection is usually for the protection of the buyer BUT, getting an inspection may help you sell your home faster and fore more money… here’s why.
Do you love the idea of investing in real estate and wondering how to buy your first investment property in Shoreline, WA? This is a great question. Due to tight (or negative) cashflow and high property costs, many people wonder if it even makes sense to invest here. Well, if you can afford to get in, the numbers can look pretty favorable. The benefit of buying your first investment property here in Shoreline, Washington is that this is a strongly appreciating market, at least it has been historically.
You think you’ve found the perfect house with the exact features you were looking for and in the neighborhood you wanted. But it won’t be the “perfect house” till it passes the inspection. The inspection may reveal some big, costly problems. Home inspections are an effective tool in locating red flags. With the help of your home inspector – and your own keen observation skills that’s why you need to know the 7 red flags to watch for during a Shoreline, WA property inspection.
A buyer’s agent is a real estate agent who works only for the buyer and not the seller. Ideally, looking out for the best interests of the buyer, a buyer’s agent works on a commission contracted in the listing agreement. But, sometimes, buyer’s agents are more interested in that commission than in what is best for the buyer. So if you’re wondering how to find a buyer’s agent that is right for you in Shoreline, WA, look for these key qualities in the agent.
If you’re thinking about moving to or from or within the greater Seattle area, I want to welcome you to my YouTube channel. Here we talk about things that a lot of buyers and sellers in this area are wondering about. I find there are three main questions.
Number one, where am I moving to? If you’re from out of the area or even within, you may know that the greater Seattle area is not only huge geographically, huge in population, but there are a lot of different cultural enclaves from the north end where we have a naval base in Everett and Boeing airplane facility, to Monroe where it’s farm country.
From College Grad to Real Estate Investor: My Journey Becoming a Landlord: My Ten Year “Overnight Success” Story… and whether you are interested in investing locally here in Seattle, Washington, or you want to become a landlord out of state, let me know and I would be happy to help plug you in to my … Continued
Are you relocating to the Seattle area for a tech job? We have a lot of tech companies here. First, it was Microsoft, who has a huge campus over in Redmond. Then it was Amazon and we’ve also got Google and Facebook offices now. So the tech presence in Seattle is growing and it’s bringing a lot of people to town. So if that’s you, and you’re wondering where to live and what are the pros and cons of these different neighborhoods in Seattle for the IT worker, be sure to watch this video, I’m going to break it down for you.