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By Joe Manausa, Tallahassee Real Estate
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Should you get a 40-year mortgage? If you do, you're going to regret it (say some talking heads on YouTube). The fact is, the 40-year mortgage is absolutely perfect for a segment of today's homebuyers (and refinancers), but it absolutely makes no sense for others. Before you decide upon a specific mortgage amortization on a home loan, take a look at this quick case study that compares a 15-year loan with a 30-year loan and a 40-year amortized loan. You'll be glad that you did!How To Evaluate The 40 Year MortgagePlease remember to "like" the post and the video on YouTube too! Thank you. 🏡  Link to all homes for sale in Tallahassee📺 Subscribe To The Joe Manausa Real Estate Channel and Get More Housing Market Reports, Listings, and Real Estate Marketing Tips, and answers to your frequently...
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By Joe Manausa, Tallahassee Real Estate
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September is over and it's time for a new housing market update.As with all things 2020, this just does not seem like October (even though the weather is perfect).Buyers are as active as they were in May, and we still have a chance to finish 2020 with the most home sales in the past 13 years. I have created some graphs that I will share with you now, they accurately depict current real estate market conditions and make it possible to forecast what we will see coming next in the 2020 housing market.ℹ️ Here's the link I mentioned in the video where you can see listings BEFORE they hit the market: Coming Soon ListingsPlease remember to "like" the post and the video on YouTube too! Thank you.📺 Subscribe To The Joe Manausa Real Estate Channel and Get More Housing Market Reports, Listings and...
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By Joe Manausa, Tallahassee Real Estate
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What is the difference between a real estate appraisal and the fair market value of a home?If there is one practice that confounds both home buyers and home sellers alike it's the fact that the majority of real estate transactions close at the mercy of an appraisal conducted for a purpose that most consumers do not consider.Understanding these differences will save you money when it comes to buying or selling a home, and it will help you appreciate the need and value of a real estate appraisal.But here’s the kicker … The appraisal might not necessarily tell you what the home is worth in today's real estate market.ℹ️ Here's the link I mentioned in the video where you can get a home's value: Home Valuation ToolPlease remember to "like" the post and the video on YouTube too! Thank you.📺 Su...
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By Joe Manausa, Tallahassee Real Estate
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As the 3rd quarter of 2020 winds down, it's a good time to dig down into the data to see what parts of the housing market are performing.One good way to do this is to slice up the market and then rank 2020 on how each slice compares with previous years, and that is what I've done.I rarely can get surprised by any new look at the housing market, because I'm constantly evaluating trends each day. But this new graph definitely showed me something that I was missing!2020Q3 - Surprising Trend In Housing I'm curious, did you know this was happening?Please remember to "like" the post and the video on YouTube too! Thank you.📺 Subscribe To The Joe Manausa Real Estate Channel and Get More Housing Market Reports, Listings and Real Estate Marketing Tips, and answers to your frequently asked questio...
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By Joe Manausa, Tallahassee Real Estate
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Hey, I’ve got some ugly and funny bad pictures to share with you today.I always tell home sellers, as a general rule, they’re not going to sell their home on the internet. Typically, we market a home on the internet, but it ends up getting sold with an onsite visit from a buyer.Online Traffic Drives Onsite TrafficThe amount of money a seller gets from the sale of a home will be heavily influenced by how well the home is marketed on the internet. That’s right. The internet will not sell a home, but the internet will be where buyers go to decide which homes they want to see.And it’s the homes that make their best impression online that garner the highest dollar when the sale has been consummated. Why? Because of competition and the fear of loss from prospective buyers who see others looki...
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By Joe Manausa, Tallahassee Real Estate
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As we look towards entering the final quarter of this crazy 2020 year, I see signs that normal seasonality is going to be thrown away and we're going to see increased activity during what is normally "the slow time of the year."Why? Three big reasons, one of which I promise you have never even considered!Find out in today's real estate market inventory update and forecast:The link mentioned in the video is here: TLH15.comSo that's what's happening in the housing market, please remember to "like" the video on YouTube! Thank you.📺 Subscribe To The Joe Manausa Real Estate Channel and Get More Housing Market Reports, Listings and Real Estate Marketing Tips, and answers to your frequently asked questions.📘 Get the DIGITAL MARKETING BOOK written by an active Realtor, for all Realtors!
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By Joe Manausa, Tallahassee Real Estate
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If there is one thing that I see divorcing couples get wrong most often, it is the way they deal with the home they have owned together.While I am not a lawyer and I'm not providing "LEGAL" advice, take it from somebody who has helped hundreds of divorcing couples, there is a right way (and at least FOUR wrong ways) to handle the house in a divorce.Tell your attorney that you want to do it right!So that's five different ways to handle the house in a divorce, please remember to "like" the video on YouTube! Thank you.📺 Subscribe To The Joe Manausa Real Estate Channel and Get More Housing Market Reports, Listings and Real Estate Marketing Tips, and answers to your frequently asked questions.📘 Get the DIGITAL MARKETING BOOK written by an active Realtor, for all Realtors!
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By Joe Manausa, Tallahassee Real Estate
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Real Estate Market September 2020 - The September 2020 real estate market update is ginormous, the kind I only produce a handful of times each year.Follow along as I walk you through current real estate market conditions and conclude with a specific demonstration of how current conditions could be exploited. I even slowly assemble a graph and table so that you completely understand the layered dynamic of supply and demand in the real estate market.If you own a home or plan to own one sometime soon, this is what you need to know.GINORMOUS Housing Market Video ReportI hope you enjoyed our GINORMOUS September 2020 housing market report, please remember to "like" the video on YouTube! Thank you.📺 Subscribe To The Joe Manausa Real Estate Channel and Get More Housing Market Reports, Listings ...
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By Joe Manausa, Tallahassee Real Estate
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What’s a quartile you say? Did I mean quarterly or quartered?Nope.A quartile housing report is like a median housing report on steroids, it gives you 3 times the information about how and what people are spending on real estate.If you are new to reports using quartiles, stick around to the end of this short video and you’ll see how we glean quality information using the quartile function. September 2020 Housing Market Report Using QuartilesI hope you enjoyed our September 2020 housing market report, please remember to "like" the video on YouTube! Thank you.📺 Subscribe To The Joe Manausa Real Estate Channel and Get More Housing Market Reports, Listings and Real Estate Marketing Tips, and answers to your frequently asked questions.📘 Get the DIGITAL MARKETING BOOK written by an active Real...
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By Joe Manausa, Tallahassee Real Estate
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We are experiencing the strongest seller's market on record, so you have to be prepared to make the right kind of offer if you want to buy a home today. And it's not all just about how much to offer, there is so much involved when making the "RIGHT" offer in a seller's market. In the video below, I have shared the knowledge that I have gained by selling thousands of homes in a seller's market, both working for buyers and working for sellers. This experience is summarized to 3 important home buying tips that will enlighten you on what matters most to sellers. Use these tips to prepare the best offer possible that will get you the home without you over-paying for it. Simply watch this short video and you'll be perfectly ready to get the best deal possible when making an offer in a seller'...
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By Joe Manausa, Tallahassee Real Estate
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You might have heard that we have a huge seller’s market right now in real estate. Do you know what it means when we call it a seller's market?When somebody is buying a home or selling a home, they often ask "how is the market?"They want to know if its a seller’s market or a buyer’s market. Is now a good time to buy a home or sell a home?I have prepared this short video to demonstrate the conditions that make this a seller’s market, and then we’ll show you the numbers and how we actually are able to determine the number of buyers and sellers in the housing market today.How We Define A Seller's MarketI hope you enjoyed the video. If so, please remember to "like it" on YouTube. Thank you!📺 Subscribe To The Joe Manausa Real Estate Channel and Get More Housing Market Reports, Listings and R...
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By Joe Manausa, Tallahassee Real Estate
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What Is A Seller's Market In Housing?You might have heard that we have a huge seller’s market right now in real estate. Do you know what that means?This question comes up from time to time when somebody is selling or buying a home. They want to know if its a buyer’s market or a seller’s market. Is now a good time to sell a home in the Tallahassee real estate market?I have prepared this short video to demonstrate the conditions that make this a seller’s market as well as the current market statistics that we use to determine the number of buyers and sellers in the housing market today.Just follow along to find out what makes today the strongest seller’s market I’ve seen in my 30-year career selling homes in Tallahassee.📺 Subscribe To The Joe Manausa Real Estate Channel and Get More Housi...
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By Joe Manausa, Tallahassee Real Estate
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By Joe Manausa, Tallahassee Real Estate
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The real estate market continues to be strong, despite no end in sight for the COVID-19 pandemic.This made me wonder if the real estate market is "too good" right now. Can we sustain the current rate of home sales? Are we in the process of forming another bubble like we saw occur back in 2004 through 2006?Today's real estate market report covers all the bases, beginning with an examination of the big picture, the US housing market. It continues with a local analysis of Tallahassee, and finally reviews home sales at the zip code level in the Tallahassee real estate market.Let me know what you think. Can the real estate market sustain its hot pace?📺 Subscribe To The Joe Manausa Real Estate Channel and Get More Housing Market Reports, Listings and Real Estate Marketing Tips, and answers to...
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By Joe Manausa, Tallahassee Real Estate
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So you find a home that just hit the market, and you want to make an offer. To whom do you turn to figure out the right amount to offer?Determining the right value is among the most important tasks required to successfully buy a home today.As a matter of fact, I was recently asked this question “Who is primarily responsible for determining the market value of the home you want to buy?” Questions about valuations are very common from buyers of all experience levels because nobody wants to overpay for a home. I have summarized what you need to know in this short video: 📺 Subscribe To The Joe Manausa Real Estate Channel and Get More Housing Market Reports, Listings and Real Estate Marketing Tips, and answers to your frequently asked questions. 📘 Get the DIGITAL MARKETING BOOK written by a ...
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By Joe Manausa, Tallahassee Real Estate
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Most real estate agents will tell you that a critical step in selling your home is the correct selection of your initial asking price. It determines who will see your home online and more importantly, it also determines who will NOT see your home.While I have discussed home pricing in numerous articles, today I will specifically address a pricing technique that I refer to as pricing on the nines. It is also referred to as "charm pricing" and it involves using pricing that ends in a "9" or "99."Some real estate agents do this without understanding its impact on the buyer pool for the home seller, so I have prepared a short video that shows you what to do (and just as important, what NOT TO DO).Home Sellers: Don't Do This!If you watch this short video, you’ll understand why this pricing s...
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By Joe Manausa, Tallahassee Real Estate
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The real estate market continues to suffer from a decimated inventory that often forces multiple buyers into bidding wars over each new listing that enters the market.Hands down, bar none, this is the best time to sell a home that I’ve ever seen in my near 30 years experience as a real estate agent or broker. There simply are not enough homes for sale for our normal market demand. That’s right. Demand is not the highest I’ve ever seen, but supply is the lowest on record.The reduced supply of homes is due to the combination of under-building for the past few years coupled with a pandemic that has slowed discretionary sellers from entering the market. In this video, I show you the raw data graphed into an understandable picture of how the housing market stands, where it is going, and what...
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By Joe Manausa, Tallahassee Real Estate
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Real estate cycles come and go, but some of the topics never change.I have a new YouTube Channel that I've been populating with videos several times per week, and today's video replaces one from my old YouTube Channel from nearly 10 years ago.What's interesting is that real estate market conditions could not be more OPPOSITE of what they were in 2011, yet the message in the video has not really changed (though it has been cleaned up a little).Here is the "After" video that I just recorded yesterday (please give it a thumbs up on YouTube! if you like it).New Margin For Negotiation VideoAnd here is the video that it is replacing:Old Margin For Negotiation VideoPlease visit our channel on YouTube for more answers to your real estate frequently asked questions.📺 Subscribe To The Joe Manausa...
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By Joe Manausa, Tallahassee Real Estate
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The drums are being beaten loudly, announced the impending doom of the housing market. A wave of foreclosures? Tenant evictions by the millions? Home values dropping by 30%!There are a lot of scaremongers getting a lot of attention these days, proclaiming a return to 2008 housing market conditions. But I see a lot of rhetoric and not a thorough study of the facts.I have produced a fact-based video that I am serving up to my community in order to explain why "this ain't 2008."Take a moment to watch my housing market forecast, and you'll discover the real deal about the impending doom of the US housing market. Is The Housing Market Doomed For A Repeat Of 2008?  So what do you think? Are we heading back to another market collapse? 📺 Subscribe To The Joe Manausa Real Estate Channel and Get ...
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By Joe Manausa, Tallahassee Real Estate
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What are closing costs when buying a home?If you are planning to buy a home now, or in the next few months, there are some fees and expenses you’ll need to pay in addition to your down payment that you should know about. Below, I share a story about how a buyer learned all about closing costs (the hard way!).Real Estate Closing Costs ExplainedOther than your down payment, all money you spend when you buy a home are called “closing costs,” and you should know about them ahead of time. Even experienced buyers can be surprised at all the costs that are associated with buying a home today.This short video will cover what you need to know so that you can (one, be prepared, and two, reduce the amount of money you need when it comes time to close on your new home).📺 Subscribe To The Joe Manaus...
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By Joe Manausa, Tallahassee Real Estate
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This month's Pending Home Sales Report (a leading indicator for the housing market) has been completed and can be read in detail or viewed as a video.A home sale is listed as "Pending" when the contract has been signed but the transaction has not closed, though the sale usually is finalized within one or two months of signing. Most housing market analyses identify home sales after they close, but a report of pending home sales provides real estate market information nearly two full months earlier than do closed sales reports.This pending home sales report is timely because a sizable market shift has occurred, and I will show you exactly what it means in today’s video.📺 Subscribe To The Joe Manausa Real Estate Channel and Get More Housing Market Reports, Listings and Real Estate Marketin...
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