What?
Yeah, I know. I read this article from the Cap Times, Jeff Richgels and was left more confused. Here is part of the article,
Such is life in a housing market gone stagnant: After a long boom that peaked in 2005, sales of homes and condominiums in Dane County fell 10.4 percent in 2006 and another [...]
We are inspired by NBC going green last week, so The Gardyn will go green this week. We might recycle some posts and all our font will be green.
From FSBO Madison Needs One More Photo, Atleast
NRT Inc., the largest residential real estate brokerage company in the nation conducted a study which found that the average [...]
Local For Sale By Owner Real Estate site, FSBOMadison.com does a high volume of business.
From their own website they promote,
“777 homes listed in 1999, 1100 in 2000… and on up, to over 2000 in each of the past 2 years.”
That’s pretty impressive!!! It was a hot seller’s market in Madison and a great time to make [...]
Taking a look at the Madison West single family and condo home prices.
Check this out. Besides a dip right away for Madison West condo prices, which can probably be easily explained, prices have had a stable, consistent rise. It might not be much, but there it is. Moving up. Moving forward.
Now check out Madison West single [...]
Last week we did a quiz,
Your Home For Sale Could Be Helping Other Homes Sell Instead
We then gave you the results.
How could your home actually be helping other homes sell? Glad you asked.
In order to understand this possibility, you are going to have to forget that your home is…well, your home. It is a product. [...]
Take this quiz to see if your home for sale is helping other homes sell, while you still sit waiting for a buyer.
You might not only be hurting your chances of selling your home but actually helping the competition get theirs sold. Take this 10 question true/false to find out.
true false
1. My home for sale has been [...]
After the mortgage meltdown, the Department of Labor seeing the first jobs decline since 2003, all eyes are on the Federal Reserve.
Even though the FHA has stepped in to the subprime mortgage market and the job loss was only 4,000 with the unemployment rate being virtually unchanged at 4.6%, recession is the talk. In the days of [...]
On More Listings | More Sales I have written about Feedback for real estate agents,
Your business could be giving you feedback but you may not know what it is or how to interpret it. This feedback could come from such forms as; no closings for a month, two months, or three months. Not having any current [...]
Madison Real Estate News Week In Review
Some crazy stuff going on with the Fed, mortgage company’s, and Wall St. this week, huh? While this shake up does play a part in the local Madison real estate scene, keep in mind all real estate is local and each city and each area of the country will [...]
211 N. Ingersoll St. Madison
Our FSBO Friday post takes us close to downtown Madison. Cheryl is a great FSBO, just the kind that we know can succeed if they want to Do-It-Themself. Cheryl asked great questions about the market, did a great job of staging her home and is extremely savvy about marketing it. We asked Cheryl [...]
We don’t have any FSBO listings to feature today. If you are FSBO in the Madison area and would like to be featured, contact us. Our FSBO Friday’s are all about FSBO’s in Madison.
We found this FSBO blog in Lawrence, Kansas. They have created a page for each room, posting lots of pictures and are creating [...]
Sometimes when I’m talking with a Home Seller about the price of their home, the Home Seller will explain that their home is more expensive than all the other homes in the neighborhood, because of the professional faux suede painted walls, or the imported french tiles to make the unique entry way, or the custom granite counter tops.
I [...]
Awhile back, we announced a thing called FSBO Friday. We are now ready to execute this idea. Edyn Real Estate has put all our ducks in a row and are ready to start making things happen.
FSBO FRIDAY will be a weekly posting like our Weekend Weed Out. We will be featuring a local FSBO listing. We plan on [...]
I would think a Divorce Attorney card would be the most thrown away card in all of business cards.
If you met a Divorce Attorney at a networking event and took his card and stuffed it in your pocket or purse and forget about it, then your spouse some how came acrossed it, you’re probably going to have some explaining to do [...]
Madison Real Estate News Week In Review
Things are starting to come together around The Gardyn. We still have some seeding, planting, and weeding to do, but we are almost ready to fully launch. Besides the NY Times article about real estate in our fine city here is the news that may or may not have anything to do [...]
Madison Real Estate News Week In Review
The last couple of days I have recieved emails from Real Estate agents in Madison, Real Estate agents from around the country and a couple of consumers asking me what my thoughts are about an article written in the New York Times on Friday.
It seems that our little city [...]
I went in to a get a new cell phone to use for EDYN Real Estate. WOW! My head starting spinning from the choice of phones, minutes for plans, costs for text messages, call-me minutes, nights and weekend minutes, internet costs, insurance costs, blu-tooth, car charger, etc. There is a lot to the process for buying [...]
I love cornbread. I just love it. I just do. I would take cornbread over a piece of chocolate cake or a slice of apple pie. I don’t know why. I just love cornbread.
That is my taste. I can understand why someone would want something different than cornbread. That is their taste. Every has different [...]
When selling a home which commission plan would you prefer?
1) Flat fee/Limited Service
2) Flex Commission/Flex Service
3) 6%+ Commission/Full Service
4) None. I’ll go FSBO
View Results
Make your own poll
There has been some BUZZ around the The Gardyn since the announcement of FSBO Friday.
On Tuesday of this week we announced:
We are looking for our first FSBO FRIDAY feature listings. If you would like to be one or know of one, contact us by email edynrealestate@gmail.com We understand the frustrations and difficulty of home selling [...]
We at Edyn Real Estate have been trying to assist FSBO’s with our blog articles. We have written:
Hang In There FSBO
Careful Pricing Your FSBO
Options For the FSBO in Madison
Questions A FSBO Should Ask A Buyer
We are now excited to announce FSBO FRIDAY! FSBO FRIDAY will be a weekly posting like our Weekend Weed Out. We [...]
Sunday is open house day for the city of Madison real estate…
…and pretty much all of Dane County real estate. Real estate agents and FSBO’s all post directional signs, run ad’s and make sure their home for sale is show ready. Realtor’s and For Sale By Owners do this in the hopes that a buyer might show up [...]
Going For Sale By Owner can be a big challenge.
I’m not here to tell you that you can’t, like some other real estate agents might though. I am here to be realistic with you and let you know what going For Sale By Owner really means.
I am a Do-It-Yourselfer at heart and believe anyone and [...]
For Sale By Owners or FSBO’s will some times start off trying as a FSBO with the intent on listing with a real estate agent if they do not sell it themselves in their given time-line.
This is a fair and reasonable practice. Why not try to save some commission right?
If this is your thought process though [...]
So you have decided to go For Sale By Owner. You have read our article “Four Questions A FSBO Should Ask A Buyer”
You have your sign in the yard and now you wait?
NO.
As a For Sale By Owner you have got to market your property just as hard, if not harder than a real estate [...]
Decided to go For Sale By Owner? Looks like we are in the same business, for awhile at least.
The business of selling homes.
There are four important questions that you should ask buyers before you let them into your for sale by owner house.
1. Are you Pre-Qualified?
2. How much are you Pre-Qualified for?
3. Who Pre-Qualified you?
4. [...]
