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Central A/C Maintenance

Martha Loveless of Loveless Real Estate Services
The Best Carmichael Realtor | HomeSmart ICARE Realty 916-.270.7081
Homes for Sale in Carmichael / What’s Your Carmichael Home Worth?

Experts agree that scheduling a licensed HVAC contractor every spring for thorough inspection & maintenance of your A/C system is one of the best things you can do.

A poorly maintained and/or inefficient A/C unit could be costing you huge amounts of money and could prove to be a safety risk.

You should trim any plants, shrubs, or trees around the exterior A/C unit(s) if they are near or coming in contact with it. A/C experts highly recommend that annual service of the mechanical components of your A/C system be completed by a certified HVAC or other cooling specialist. Some of the main things they should do in this annual service include, but are not limited to, the following:

1) Inspecting condensation drains & thermostats.

2) Checking the air temperature splits.

3) Inspecting the compressor, motors, etc and lubricating where necessary.

4) Checking all operations of your system to the highest efficiency.

5) Checking and/or topping off refrigerant level(s)

6) Checking and/or replacing your air filter(s)

 

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Martha Loveless
916.270.7081
The Best Carmichael Realtor
www.LoveSacMetroHomes.com

How To Sell Your Home Yourself! (How to Market Your Home to Sell / FSBO)

Martha Loveless of Loveless Real Estate Services
The Best Carmichael Realtor | HomeSmart ICARE Realty 916-.270.7081
Homes for Sale in Carmichael / What’s Your Carmichael Home Worth?

Hey everyone, Martha here again with another video on how to help you sell your home yourself.

My next tip, marketing your home to sell. Gone are the days of paying for a newspaper ad, it’s 2018 and pretty much everyone is on the computer. In fact, 80% of all buyers start their home search online so it’s important to understand the internet and the power of marketing.

YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google+, Snapchat…these are all great social media platforms to post home and get massive exposure. Other ways to market your home are sending out postcards, just listed flyers, putting up a sign and flyer box in front of your home, Zillow.com, Realtor.com, Craigslist…the list goes on. One of the main things to keep in mind when marketing your home to sell, use great photos and include those home selling points we talked about last week.

As always, if you get through my videos and decide that you just don’t have the time or just don’t want to be bothered selling your home yourself, give me a call/text and I’ll be happy to get your home SOLD. Have a great day!

Here’s Why You Need That Home Inspection

Martha Loveless of Loveless Real Estate Services
The Best Carmichael Realtor | HomeSmart ICARE Realty 916-.270.7081
Homes for Sale in Carmichael / What’s Your Carmichael Home Worth?

What a Home Inspection Is and Isn’t

One of the biggest misconceptions about home inspections is that the report you get is a run down of a static structure that’s unchangeable. The truth is that a home — or even an empty lot — is a constantly changing ecosystem. In a house, there are lots of parts behind the scenes that are growing and shrinking, shifting and moving, albeit slowly.

A home inspection isn’t a projection of the future health of your house. It’s a right now look at the structure and all the moving parts. A home inspection is a snapshot and it can only reflect what the inspector sees during the time they’re at your future address.

This means that a year from your home inspection the furnace may go out, or the roof may succumb to high winds. Your house may change in ways no one can predict now. But, that doesn’t mean that a home inspection has no value.

Three Big Reasons to Have a Home Inspection

Home professionals know what they’re getting for the price of a home inspection, but many home buyers balk at the idea of spending even more money trying to buy a house. Granted, home inspections aren’t cheap, but they provide a lot of value for the money. There are plenty of reasons to hire a home inspector, but these three biggies are worth pondering if you’re unsure about pulling that trigger.

1. Home inspectors can sniff out problems you may have missed when viewing the home. No one wants to buy a money pit, but people do all the time because they’re either overestimating their abilities or they’ve failed to get a home inspection. When your home inspector goes through your home, they’ll not just walk around in the living room. They crawl through the crawl space, they get up into the attic, they really give it a good look. Home inspections take hours to complete, but when they’re done you’ll be given a report that provides you more information than you could ever imagine. The types of problems found will help you decide if you can really deal with the house in the longer term or if you can afford the house at all.

2. They’ll prepare you for upcoming repairs. Although your home inspection is a snapshot of your home at a particular moment in time, and not meant to predict the future, there are many parts of the ecosystem that predictably show signs of wear. When your home inspector sees that your shingles are starting to lose their asphalt coating, for example, they’re going to make a note of that in the report. If the furnace is beyond its useful life, even though it still works, you can brace yourself for replacing it. Knowing that there are problems in your future can give you more time to prepare for fixing them, even if that means changing loan types to a mortgage with a rehabilitation loan component, like an FHA 203(K).

3. Don’t forget, an inspection report is also a bargaining chip. Most real estate contracts allow you an inspection period, during which you can get your experts out and have them look around the property. You also have the right to ask for repairs based on what they find, provided these were not readily apparent issues. (If the carpet’s worn in the hallway, you can’t ask for that during the inspection period because you could see it. You should request those kinds of repairs with your initial offer.)

Those less visible defects are everything. Say, for example, that your home inspector found that the plumbing is leaking under the house. When that report comes in, you can request that the seller fix this issue, because it’s obviously a major problem you couldn’t have known about. If they refuse, you can come back and ask to lower the sales price (with most loan programs). Some lenders will require that something as important as the piping is in working order before closing, so make sure you and your Realtor know what your loan requires before breaking out the home inspection bargaining chip.

After closing, a lot of buyers lose or toss their home inspections. This is kind of a mistake. You can use that home inspection as a punch list of items to update, repair or replace, and check them off as you go. Later, when you go to sell that house, you can show your potential buyers that you literally fixed everything on the home inspection. That’s a confidence builder, for sure.

You Need a Home Inspection — and an Inspector!

Your Realtor knows lots of home inspectors, so when it comes time to look that house over from top to bottom, connect with them. You’ll be able to view your agent’s recommendations for home inspectors in the area, along with other home experts you may need to help with repairs further down the road.

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What’s my Carmichael Home Worth? Call us today at 916-270-7081 for a free consultation or log on to www.HomeValuesinCarmichael.com to find out.

Martha Loveless
916.270.7081
The Best Carmichael Realtor
www.LoveSacMetroHomes.com

Martha Visits – I Love Pie at the Carmichael Farmers Market

Martha Loveless of Loveless Real Estate Services
The Best Carmichael Realtor | Keller Williams Realty 916-.270.7081
Homes for Sale in Carmichael / What’s Your Carmichael Home Worth?

Local homemade pies have never tasted so good! Be sure to stop by the Carmichael Farmers Market every Sunday from 9-2pm and get a taste of the season!

How To Sell Your House Yourself (FSBO) – Know Your Selling Points

Martha Loveless of Loveless Real Estate Services
The Best Carmichael Realtor | HomeSmart ICARE Realty 916-.270.7081
Homes for Sale in Carmichael / What’s Your Carmichael Home Worth?

Thinking about selling your home in Carmichael, or a home in the Sacramento area, but you want to do it yourself? Well, here is how its done…

When selling your home yourself its great to know your homes selling points. Check out the listings of million dollar properties and see how they describe the house. Notice the detailed description and see what applies to your home. Be sure to include the number of bedrooms and bathrooms and anything that makes your property stand out. Being in a desirable neighborhood, near a good school district, and being conveniently located to major freeways are all big selling points. So, if those apply, mention it. Some descriptions you may come across as you check out other listings: “Beautiful”, “Charming”, “Move-in ready”, “In the heart of __”, “Walkable”, “Generously sized bedrooms”, “Desirable floor plan”, “Shows beautifully”, “Quality”, “Custom-built”,  “Spacious living”, “Wide lot”, “Newer construction”. These are all great descriptive words to help get eyes on your property.

If you get through my videos and you decide that you just don’t have the time or energy to do all that work, give me a call and I’ll be happy to get your home SOLD! Have a great day

Martha Loveless
916.270.7081
Sacramento Realtor
Loveless Real Estate Services
www.HomeValuesinCarmichael.com
www.LoveSacMetroHomes.com