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Posted in Selling Tips, Tips and Ideas on 25 December 2009
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From our Buy Owner offices to the living rooms of your homes throughout the nation, Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!
Posted in Selling Tips on 26 November 2009
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From our Buy Owner offices to the dining rooms of your homes throughout the nation, Happy Thanksgiving!
Posted in Selling Tips, Tips and Ideas on 28 September 2009
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You probably already know how significant the listing price of your home can be. Price too high, and you scare away qualified buyers; price too low, and you get less money than you could have. We’ve written here at the Buy Owner Blog about the perils of poor pricing before, but let’s talk now about the way to do it right:
Determine Your Margin
One of the first factors you need to consider is equity. If you’ve been in your home for several years or if you put down a large down payment, you have a pretty good idea how much money you’d like to get out of the house when you sell.
Posted in Selling Tips, Tips and Ideas on 7 September 2009
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Most sellers discover several minor repairs that need to be made before they can sell their house. Oftentimes it’s things they’ve lived with for years—closet doors that jump the tracks, doorbells that don’t work, window screens that are torn or faucets that drip if the handle isn’t turned just right. But even if you’ve lived with a broken doorbell for years, a potential buyer won’t want to. So now is the time to do something about it.
To get you started, here are some specific things to focus on as you survey your home for repairs:
• Repair anything that has been visibly damaged: Nicks in walls from that time you moved your desk, corners of the carpet that have pulled away from the wall and woodwork that’s scratched or dented all need to be repaired or replaced before you show your home to prospective buyers.
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Posted in New Features, Selling Tips, Tips and Ideas on 24 March 2009
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Buy Owner® has recently added maps to our online advertising, as well as updated our schools sections! These exciting new features give you the ability to enhance your property’s marketing the way you’d like, giving you maximum customization and control.
Here’s how the new features work:
NEW MAPS
Buy Owner advertisements now display custom maps that allow buyers to see where your home is located. Buyers who view your property can click for three different map views: (1) Map: the default option with street names (2) Satellite: a bird’s eye view from above or (3) Hybrid: a combination of the two that shows street names and a satellite view.
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Posted in Selling Tips on 1 February 2009
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Happy February from Buy Owner®!
Sometimes you want to read a lengthy article filled with tips from A to Z. Other times, though, you just want to get to the point and know what the essential info is.
With that in mind, welcome to a new series at the Buy Owner Blog: Top 10s. Over the next month, we will be bringing you a variety of articles all centered on one theme: the best of the best.
Tomorrow, we begin with the Top 10 Home Marketing Tips. Then we’ll continue with the Top 10 Green Purchases for Your Home, the Top 10 Considerations before Buying a Condo and more.
It’s just one more way that we at Buy Owner seek to make your home-ownership experience a better one, giving you more information so you have more control.
After all, at Buy Owner, it’s U that makes the difference!
Posted in Buying Tips, New Features, Tips and Ideas on 9 September 2008
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Have you ever wondered just how many properties are being viewed at BuyOwner.com or wanted to see for yourself which properties were getting the most hits? With BuyOwner’s exciting new feature, Housefly, you can do just that. Like a fly on the wall, you’ll be able to watch the constantly updating list of just-viewed advertisements. Housefly [...]
Posted in Press on 8 August 2008
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One way Buy Owner helps you maximize your home’s marketability is through technology, from our high-traffic Website and talking yard signs to professionally created virtual tours: 360-degree online showcases of your home, complete with recorded audio descriptions. A recent article by June Fletcher of The Wall Street Journal draws attention to the importance of technology in home sales and [...]
Posted in New Features on 2 May 2008
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Another database update is scheduled for Tuesday, May 7, at 7:30 AM EST. We estimate the service to be down for no more than one hour. Although you may not see any cosmetic changes, the update will be enhancing the database functionality. We will be moving to a faster, more powerful database server. New and [...]
Posted in General Information, Selling Tips, Tips and Ideas on 9 January 2008
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Contract to closing, Buy Owner creates a smooth selling process: that’s “The Buy Owner Difference.” From tips on staging to organizing to cleaning to curb appeal, Buy Owner provides information, right here at the blog, to help you prepare your home for sale. Buy Owner marketing plans offer options for quality descriptions, professional virtual [...]
