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10 Home Renovations Best and Worst Return on Investment

Remodeling may be a labor of love, but it’s also an investment that can seriously boost the value of your home.  Only by how much? Well, according to Remodeling magazine’s 2016 Cost vs. Value Report, you’ll recoup an average of 64% of what you paid for a renovation if you sell your home this year. To arrive [...]

2017-02-04T23:03:02-05:00April 25th, 2016|Home Tips, Tricks, & Ideas, Local News|
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Agents Take Commission Cut

The Michigan Association of Realtors Has Announced Commission Cut Requirement! According to the article released just yesterday "Starting immediately, all licensed real estate agents, and brokers that are members of the Michigan Association are required to change to a locked commission rate of 1% regardless of factors." This will bring a huge change to [...]

2017-02-04T23:03:02-05:00April 1st, 2016|Industry News, Local News, Real Estate Tips|
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Data & Information Security Training

On March 22, we had the great opportunity to teach a lunch & learn class for local agents, lenders, and affiliates of the Traverse Area Association of Realtors. We tried to cram as much information into the short session, However running well beyond the one hour allotted time slot; a fully booked lunch had so [...]

2017-02-04T23:03:03-05:00March 28th, 2016|Industry News, Local News, Real Estate Tips|
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The 10-Step Guide to Buying a House

Buying a house may be the most complicated financial process of your entire life. Luckily, we’ve broken it down into 10 straightforward steps:   1. Are you ready to become a homeowner? Whether you’re becoming a homeowner for the first time or you’re a repeat buyer, buying a house is a financial and emotional [...]

2017-02-04T23:03:03-05:00February 9th, 2016|Home Tips, Tricks, & Ideas, Local News, Real Estate Tips|
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Pricing Your Home to Sell

Factors to Consider Unlike the cost of a gallon of milk or a flat-screen television, a home’s price can be hard to pin down. It’s complicated because each home is unique, and has its own story to tell. When it comes to setting the price of a house, the only thing to do is to [...]

2017-02-04T23:03:03-05:00January 15th, 2016|Home Tips, Tricks, & Ideas, Local News, Real Estate Tips|
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Home Opportunities and Market Experience Survey

Highlights: The new Housing Opportunities and Market Experience (HOME) report was created to monitor consumer sentiment about the housing market. This new report covers core topics that will be tracked on a monthly basis such as views on housing as a good financial investment, whether homeownership is part of the American Dream, if now [...]

2017-02-04T23:03:03-05:00January 14th, 2016|Industry News, Local News, Real Estate Tips|
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6 Easy Ways to Warm Up Your Home

Every winter when the temperatures go down the heating bills go up, and you start seeing a lot of advice about home improvements you can make to keep your house warm without going broke. A lot of it is really good advice. But what if you don’t want to want to tackle a project in [...]

2017-02-04T23:03:03-05:00January 5th, 2016|Home Tips, Tricks, & Ideas, Local News|
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Michigan to get Flat Rate Recording Fee’s ?

Recording costs have always been a variable of nuisance when it comes to buying or selling a new home, refinancing an existing mortgage, or any other type of documents you may need to have recorded with the county’s Register of Deeds office. Why? Each county in the state of Michigan has the ability to [...]

2017-02-04T23:03:03-05:00December 3rd, 2015|Industry News, Local News|
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Traverse City To Go High Speed & High Tech?

In a handful of U.S. cities, residents enjoy Internet speeds one hundred times faster than the national average. Home and business owners in places like Chattanooga and Kansas City – connected to a 1-gigabit-per-second fiber optic network – can download HD movies in seconds, operate cutting-edge medical and technology firms and tap into optimized city [...]

2017-02-04T23:03:03-05:00November 23rd, 2015|Industry News, Local News|
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Traverse City Approved 9 Story Building – River West

  Back in September we posted Traverse City vs Tall Buildings , as the battle over the skyline of our town was getting started.   We have now seen our first approval for a tall building.  The Traverse City planning commissioners voted 7-2 Tuesday to approve a special land use permit for a proposed nine-story [...]

2017-02-04T23:03:04-05:00November 5th, 2015|Industry News, Local News|
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