12/8/2008 5:08:00 PM
Very few agents offer buyer rebates in Charleston
Search for homes in Charleston, South Carolina Why is it so uncommon for realtors to offer rebates? Are agents just greedy? Usually not. Real estate is an expensive business. Aside from the obvious fixed overhead costs that offices incur, the individual agent ...
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11/25/2008 10:00:00 PM
Home rebates and procuring cause
Charleston Homes for Sale Most homebuyers are not real estate agents. Most homebuyers shop for homes with some natural, but potentially expensive assumptions. Buyers usually think that it makes no difference if they began their property search on their own, ...
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11/25/2008 9:47:00 PM
Builders and you - get your own free representation first
As you might expect, builders look at selling a home from a very different perspective than that of individual home sellers. Builders are business people and selling is a full time business - not an occasional necessity. Builders recognize that agents are ...
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11/24/2008 11:53:00 AM
Real Estate today and the Gen X, Gen Y Buyer
Charleston Real Estate The marketplace for buying or selling a home has changed – again – and dramatically. Along with market changes have been a natural evolution processes among consumers. Not long ago, nearly every home buyer was a baby boomer. ...
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11/21/2008 10:09:00 AM
A place called home
Charleston Area Real Estate Where we live, the type of home we choose to live in, and how we make that home our own are intimate, careful choices. The home, for most of us, transcends the physical. Even the term "home" itself evokes a powerful positive ...
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11/18/2008 11:05:00 AM
Buy a home, get a rebate vs Buy a home using the best agent
Charleston Real Estate A hot real estate market over the past decade has brought with it a lot of changes for the real estate industry. Changes in technology have also been key in altering the way the public and the real estate profession sees the role of ...
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11/18/2008 10:55:00 AM
Your agent is offering a rebate when you buy a home. It is really a rebate, a kick back, or a gift? Rebates on home are legal in 40 states.
Charleston Real Estate Rebate is from14th century English, in effect, to deduct. Re-bate is to “un-deduct” - or, simply, give back. Now by this definition, and the usual concept of rebate we all well understand, the person who paid should also ...
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3/12/2008 10:35:00 AM
Do the banks REALLY have all of that much money?
Banks have a lot of money … but they don't have enough money to provide all the funding for loans that they need in order to be profitable without the help of the larger secondary market. The secondary market is where the primary lender can sell ...
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3/12/2008 10:24:00 AM
Risky business
With all the talk in the media about defaults and foreclosures, it’s not a bad idea to have an understanding of how loans are issued and how banks are protected when they issue loans. I t is getting harder to get a loan – even for well qualified ...
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3/12/2008 9:57:00 AM
It's not your mortgage
Let’s first eliminate a common misunderstanding. Banks do not GIVE mortgages. If you have a home with a mortgage, the bank owns the mortgage. How did they get it? You GAVE it to them. Most people say that they are going to get a mortgage when in fact ...
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