Anaheim Hills & Real Estate
The Salvation Army Fall Donation Drive
Clean Out Those Closets & Garage
What:
clothing-furniture-books-shoes-electronics
cd’s-tools-bike-computers
appliances-jewelry-car
When:
This Saturday and Sunday – November 29th & 30th, 2008
9am to 4 pm Saturday
9am-2pm Sunday
Where:
Canyon High School
220 South Imperial Highway, Anaheim
One Block south of Santa Ana Canyon Rd
For Special Pick-Ups Call
800-SA-TRUCK
Just received the virtual tour of my new listing in Buena Park and it came out looking great. I would recommend this company, Orange County Virtual Tours, to any agent that has a listing in Orange County, CA. You can order the tour online and pay online as well. I ordered the tour and had the completed project in my in-box the next day along with an email giving me the links for the sites to where it had already been posted. The tour comes with photos, music and a very easy to use interface. Adding a tour to a listing is very easy.
Here is the company information for Orange County Virtual Tours:
Scott Gormley – Owner
Orange County Virtual Tours
Direct: 949.916.1460
Email: Tours@OCTours.com
Website: http://www.octours.com/
“Virtually Simple!”™
The foreclosure market is a bad, really bad. When a house is listed for $1 and it takes 19 day to find a buyer, that is a picture of how bad it really is. The house is a shell and there is the issue of back taxes but to be able to purchase a home that sold in 2006 for $65,000 is almost unbelievable. To get the full story click here.
If you are thinking about buying a new home but concerned you will not be able to sell your current home, there are many things you can do in order to help get your home sold. The first and most important thing to do is price your house correctly in today’s market.
How do you do this? Look at other homes in your neighborhood that have sold recently and this should give you an idea of the value of your home. You could use the Internet to do some research and find a value. A great way to find the true value of your home is to hire a local appraiser who will come out and give you an appraisal for a small fee. A house that is priced in line with the market will sell, even in today’s economy.
Other things that you can do is hire a real estate agent. A good agent will market your home, add it to the MLS and put the listing up on several of the online sites so that your home has as many people looking at it as possible. Having your home on the Internet is not enough. The quality of the pictures and possibly a virtual tour will bring in and hold more attention, so a professional photographer should be used. An agent can do other things to help as well: hold open houses, mail out fliers, drop brochures door to door along with other marketing tasks.
Another way to help sell your home is to have it looking like a model home. This is not that hard to do and will give your home emotional appeal. First, remove all the excess clutter, knick-knacks and personal photographs from the home. Rooms need to be furnished but any excess items that could be removed or stored in the garage should be moved (chairs, tables, beds, etc.). When someone comes to view the home have all lights on, windows open and blinds pulled back. The smell of a home is very important and lighting a few scented candles that are not too strong is a good idea.
Of course there are many other things you could do and your local bookstore has entire books on this subject. So when you find that home that is “just perfect”, don’t turn away because you think you won’t be able to sell your home, use these tips and your home will sell.
I have been working on my home page and cleaning up my blog. I hope to do more work on both but they are up and operational. If you come across my page drop me an email.
Other areas I might be able to help is in sales. I have read many books, been to seminars, listened to tapes and podcasts. Along with sales comes the collection of tech-gadgets, organizers, time-management and dedication. So, if you have a question, fire away.
Just finished this book by Frank J. Rumbauskas Jr. and I would recomend this to anyone in sales. It brings many ideas and a new outlook on marketing that is a must for sales today.
If you are in sales, you need to answer yes to these questions:
Do you have a web page?
Do you use email to communitcate to the masses?
Are you staying in contact with your entire database?
These questions and more are covered in this book.
Get more information at http://www.nevercoldcall.typepad.com/
I purchased this phone last week and I have to say I love it. I was working with a Pocket PC (Audiovox) prior to this and it was nice phone. The concern I had was moving from a Pocket PC with a touch screen to a Smartphone that was controlled by a scroll button. After a short learning curve (I wanted to touch the screen on occasion but have stopped) I have come to really like the functionality of the scroll button.
The other great thing about this phone is the size, I can put it in my pocket and forget it is there. With my old phone it was just too bulky – it did not fit in my pocket, a hip case was obtrusive and carrying it around in an organizer defeated the entire purpose of the phone (who needs two organizers).
The keyboard is great for quick emails and short replies. To dial a number, although this is done only on the rare occasion with the built in voice dialing command, takes some getting used to.
I have not explored the use of the phone as a mp3 player but I plan on trying this out in the near future. This will require two additional purchases on my part. I will need to get a mini-SD card, my old phone used the regular size SD cards. Second, the head-phone jack is the smaller size so I will need to get an adapter or a new set of headphones.
I highly recommend this phone. It is very small, easy to use, runs on Windows Mobile 5.0 and syncs up with Outlook without a problem.
If you have questions about a buying or selling a home, I can help you.
