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Buying a House
WITH YOU EVERY STEP OF THE WAY Whether you are a first-time home buyer or long-term investor, I love getting to know what you want and how I can help you reach your goal. Every person's life has many dimensions--family, work, friends, pets and hobbies. My job is to listen and learn to ensure your big picture plan comes together with your daily needs. I bring Real Estate expertise and Portland neighborhood knowledge to provide start to finish support. Collaboration, education, combine to make sure you understand what is happening from first meeting to final signing. STEPS FOR BUYERS MEET YOUR AGENTAgents are part matchmaker and part business person. We…
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Selling a House
WITH YOU EVERY STEP OF THE WAY Prepping your home for showings, marketing your home and choosing offers, and the appraisal process–selling your home—especially if you’ve never done it before—can be surprisingly time-consuming and emotionally challenging. Learn the simple steps sellers take to sell their homes, from listing to closing, in easy-to-understand terms.
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Why you should get intimate with your Real Estate Agent
What is the definition of "intimacy"? It is close familiarity or friendship; closeness. Some synonyms would be: affinity, repore, confidentiality, and understanding. When entering into a transaction with a real estate agent, whether you are buying or selling a home, you should be looking for someone that you can feel safe sharing your fears, your anxieties, your hopes and your dreams regarding your transaction. In turn, the agent should handle that information with the highest level of care, and use that information to help you make the best decisions possible. Buying or selling a home is one of the most important decisions you will ever make. It involves not only good…
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Negotiations simply explained.
Real estate negotiations are both a skill and an art. Rhonda Spencer, broker for Urban Nest Realty in Portland Oregon, uses children's toys to simply explain how real estate negotiation works to help both parties get what they want from a deal.
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Oregon’s New Rent Control Law, and Portland’s Relocation Assistance Ordinance.
As you may have heard, Oregon is now the first to have passed a state-wide rent control bill that is now law. Earlier in the month I attended a class on the "State of Rentals in Portland". Among the hot topics of conversation was the proposed state-wide Rent Control bill, SB 608. Since that time, the bill has passed the Senate and has become law. According to the article from NPR, "Under this new law, landlords across the state could raise rent no more than 7 percent per year, plus the annual change in the consumer price index. The bill carves out an exemption for rental properties that are less than…
