West Linn, Lake Oswego and Portland Real Estate

Listing with a Portland Realtor vs For Sale By Owner (FSBO) Lets take a look at trying sell your home as a For Sale By Owner (aka FSBO) vs. hiring a professional Portland Real Estate broker to get your home sold.  While there are some deals that have gone smoothly without the services of a professional Realtor, your [...]

We have heard it all before, most sellers expect “top dollar” for their homes and most buyers want to pay “rock bottom” prices.  However, there are buyers who will pay more for your home and they will not give it a second thought.  How do you attract them?   My initial question for sellers would [...]

In this buyers market, it is tougher than ever to sell a house.  Some owners who have West Linn homes for sale are turning to renting when their home is not selling.  Can doing so actually lose you money? Renting may seem like an easy fix but,  it may not be a long-term solution. Not everybody [...]

The area or neighborhood that your West Linn real estate  is in will dictate your selling price more than all the updates in the world. What you put into your home may not be what you can get out.  Your remodel project may say you should receive a certain return on investment percentage based on the [...]

  When a selling West Linn real estate, its crucial to price it competitively right when it is initially listed. Even with all the data (closed sales, pending home sales, comparable homes, competition, etc…) available  to West Linn Realtors and sellers to calculate precisely what a particular home will sell for, a home is only worth exactly what someone is willing [...]

You may have heard the term “short sale” and maybe even wondered what kind of opportunities these types of transactions offer in the West Linn real estate market. Here is a quick rundown of the short sale process.  Let’s start with the  definition of a short sale. A short sale is also called “Short Pay” or [...]

It is very uncommon for the bank to agree up front to accept a short sale, so nobody knows for certain — buyer’s agent, listing agent nor the seller — if a short sale offer will be accepted or rejected by the bank. Even though the West Linn real estate listing is advertised as a [...]

For many distressed sellers, a short sale could be their only path to avoiding foreclosure.   With all of the steps paperwork and waiting involved a short sale can feel like a very difficult path to take.  Talk to a Realtor who has some experience with the entire short sale process to see if the process is right [...]