Howard County Happenings

Howard County Home Sellers – The 5 Best Uses of Your Time and Dollars - #1 – Decluttering  (Cost: $0; Return: High) Really, you’re going to have to pack up your Howard County home sometime in order to sell it, so start now. We’re getting ready to market your home, and your intention is to sell qu...

Just purchased a Howard County home and wondering about the current property tax reassessment requirements?  On page 9 of the Maryland Association of Realtors' Residential Contract of Sale, is paragraph 51, entitled "Property Tax Notice - 60 Day Appeal."  And it reads, "If any real property is tr...

Staging - 5 Reasons I Believe In Staging - Reason #5:  You Can Relax Let’s work together to get your list of To-Dos for your Howard County home done quickly, so you can hit the ground running and sell your home for the highest price, in the least amount of time.  Let’s inconvenience you for as sh...

Staging - 5 Reasons I Believe in Staging - Reason #4: The Competition Howard County Buyers are looking at a lot of Howard County houses – Comparing, eliminating, choosing.  I saw three homes today with my buyer, very similarly priced.  It was clear, walking into the 2nd, that the 1st was only goi...

Staging - 5 Reasons I Believe In Staging - Reason #3:  Sellers and Buyers Have Difficulty Visualizing For Homeowners, it can be exceptionally hard to see your own Howard County home as a buyer would.  We tend to overlook what we see each day in our own homes.  And because it’s so difficult to see...

Staging – 5 Reasons I Believe In Staging -Reason #2:  Your House Will Sell Faster Ensuring that your Howard County home is shown in its best possible light is an important factor for attracting the largest number of qualified buyers to your home, potentially resulting in receiving a satisfactory ...

Staging – 5 Reasons I Believe In Staging – Reason #1:  You Will Make More Money The National Association of Realtors (NAR) who tracks these sorts of things, says that the average staging investment is between 1-3% of the home’s asking price, and that investment generates a return of between 8-10%...

Interested in Howard County real estate?  Here are the homes with the highest sold prices in February 2011, as reported in MRIS for the month.  These 5 had list prices of over $1,000,000, and 4 of the 5 sold for over the $1,000,000 mark. In total, 137 Howard County homes went to settlement in Feb...

Step 5 – Consider Tax and Future Ramifications So you’ve researched, Realtored, and worked together quickly as a Team.  (Steps 1-4)  It’s also very important that you consider the tax and future ramifications of the short sale of your Howard County home. When this short sale phenomenon began a fe...

Step 4 – Fully Participate Help your Howard County Realtor help you get your house sold.  Selling a house, whether it’s a short sale or not, is really a team effort: the Sellers and the Realtor working together to achieve the same goal.  So when you hire an experienced short sale agent, listen to...