Month: September 2017

Have you heard the saying, “You don’t know the market has bottomed out until you’ve bounced up off that bottom, and are already on the way back up?”

Well the same can be said for when the market is going the other direction, and in May and June of last year, a lot of sellers and listing agents weren’t aware that we had rolled off an April real estate peak, and seemed to be two months behind.

As the market did continue to change, there was always a spring-like sale mixed within the pack, and you just hoped you didn’t find yourself up against six other bidders, in a market that was supposed to be cooling…

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Call me dramatic if you want to, but a story worth telling, is worth telling right.

I’ve told bits and pieces of Jake & Amanda’s real estate journey through some of my May and June blog posts, but in this series, you can see how one of the busiest 4-month real estate journeys I’ve ever seen, first began, and ultimately how it ended.

We made our first offer in the month of May, after the market had begun to cool.

But as you might have expected in a changing market, the sellers had no idea what was going on… Read More

The spring of 2017 was the hottest market I have ever seen.  It was probably the hottest market that any Realtor, regardless of his or her experience in this city, has ever seen.

I told a lot of stories back in the spring on TRB, many of which conveyed exactly how hot the market was.

But one story was left untold, because it just concluded.  And ironically, it took place after the market changed, as our journey began in June.

Allow me to regale you with the Tao of the 2017 Buyer…

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