by Jon Boyd | Apr 19, 2019 | Buyer Agency, Home Buying, Home Inspection, Moving
There is a lot of conversation inside the industry right now on listing agents doing photo editing on their listing photos. Some photo editing can really be misleading, but some can actually be useful for us on the buying end. The comment I commonly hear from our... 
by Jon Boyd | Apr 18, 2019 | Buyer Agency, Moving, Seasonal
Even though we are a relatively small brokerage our buyer focus gives us some good insights into the market. We’ve been feeling the challenges of trying to find nice homes and good prices for our buyer clients again this year. Is it worse than the last couple of... 
by Jon Boyd | Mar 16, 2019 | Buyer Agency, Construction, Home Inspection, Home Ownership, Moving
In this first video, we see a mostly finished bathroom in a high-end home after the painting contractors have just finished. Unfortunately, the quality of the painting work is sub-standard. I don’t think the builder was going to be upset about this as the paint... by Jon Boyd | Jan 31, 2016 | Buyer Agency, Home Ownership, Mortgages, Moving, Uncategorized
It sounds like some incoming physicians doing their residency here have been receiving bad information about available mortgage options. The mortgage market has changed dramatically over the last two years. There are now only about a half dozen zero downpayment... by Jon Boyd | Jan 31, 2016 | Buyer Agency, Home Buying, Home Ownership, Mortgages, Moving, Uncategorized
The national association most of the top buyer agents belong to (naeba.org) just posted this press release: AVONDALE, Ariz., March 31, 2009, /PRNewswire-USNewswire via COMTEX/ — As fewer transactions are split up between a relatively fixed number of real estate... by Jon Boyd | Jan 31, 2016 | Electrical, Home Buying, Home Inspection, Home Ownership, Moving, Seasonal, Ventilation
Homes that have been “abused” We sometimes talk about homes that have suffered from abuse from their owners. A friend of mine ran across this example in a home he bought recently. The furnace had been run for years without a filter. Here is what he saw when he opened... 