by Jon Boyd | Jan 31, 2016 | Buyer Agency, Home Buying
I received another call yesterday from a frustrated home buyer. This young man had been working with a real estate agent from one of the big five firms here and he really felt he wasn’t getting his questions answered. He wasn’t even sure he knew what questions he... 
by Jon Boyd | Jan 31, 2016 | Buyer Agency, Creative, Home Buying, Tech
Hey Real Estate Professionals – How about we all start to use some intelligent, useful, time-saving file names for all the scanned documents we are passing back and forth these days? Here is the problem: Every day I receive documents from lenders, title companies and... by Jon Boyd | Jan 31, 2016 | Appraisals, Buyer Agency, Home Buying, Home Inspection, Home Ownership, Mortgages, Seasonal, Tech, Ventilation, Windows
It is funny what you learn and when you learn it in the real estate business. As an exclusive buyer agent, I’ve been in thousands of homes with new or updated windows. In fact, window discussions are very common for us because it does have a significant impact on the... by Jon Boyd | Jan 30, 2016 | Buyer Agency, Home Buying, Home Ownership, Moving
As time goes by a lot of good information can get lost on the internet. This is a press release from NAEBA in August of 2004 that covers the intentional effort of many state REALTOR associations (Including ours here in Michigan) to confuse and mislead buyers about... by Jon Boyd | Dec 31, 2015 | Buyer Agency, Home Buying, Home Inspection, Home Ownership, Mortgages
A lot of real estate agents in our markets these days say they are buyer’s agents. (Most are actually designated buyer agents but that is a different issue.) However, in our experience few agents will actually help a buyer negotiate anything other than the purchase... 
by Jon Boyd | Nov 30, 2015 | Electrical, Generators, Home Buying, Home Inspection, Home Ownership, Seasonal, Solar Energy, Tech
This is from a press release last month: Select Solar And Generator, a Michigan solar panel installer, has signed a contract to design, install, and commission a solar roof for Jon Boyd, a local home buyer’s broker and nationally recognized home buying expert. The... 