Fort Myers, FL

Home tips from Joe Kendall, Realtor with Sandals Realty ! Wooded Floors, Let Them Shine !

I happen to run into a few agents at the local coffee shop last week and we started talking shop so you would say, one Realtor stated to me about they have a couple homes they are trying to sell with wood floors. She told me they just always look dusty or dull looking. I told her, what I do to bring out the luster was to use Old English Furniture polish and a dust mop!

The polish covers up the scratches in the floors well and also provides a luster to the wooden floors. it's great to do before an open house ! I received a call from one of the agents yesterday and she told me thanks for the tip she could not believe the difference in the appearance of the floors,"it's like there a mirror " and it really raised the presentation of each room. Give it a try!

Joe Kendall, Realtor Sandals Realty
Waterfront & Foreclosure Specialist
Phone 239-560-0726 Fax 239-236-0422
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Robyn Thompson is the nations leading expert on buying, renovating and selling homes for huge chunks of cash and is known throughout the United States and Canada as “The Queen of Rehab”.
(You can pre-register here and get the early bird pricing - http://bit.ly/s1CGW)
After spending 9 years working a dead end corporate job, Robyn realized that her hard work and dedication for IBM was not going to provided financial independence. She walked away from her secure paycheck and never looked back.

Over the past 10 years since Robyn left IBM, she has bought, fixed and sold over 200 homes with price ranges as low as $8,000 to as high as $4,000,000. She has spent as much as $2,100,000 in labor and materials in one year to renovate properties with more than 22 contractors working full time to take the ugly homes she bought and turn them into little castles at lightening speed.

Robyn has taught thousands of students throughout the United States how to become financially independent. Shas shared the stage with Donald Trump, Dr Phil, Mark Victor Hansen, Ron LeGrand, Marshal Sylver & many more legends.
Robyn uses her success in the real estate business to help those less fortunate. The most recent construction project that Robyn completed was an orphanage in Haiti for 165 children. She will be speaking at the Forever Wealth Club doing a Full day of Training on Saturday.

This is not a “blue sky” program but a reality and each and every one of you can place as she does Ca$h In The Bank.

She will instruct you on,

* Her Buying Machine
* Where to Find Properties to Retail
* 10 Criteria to Ensure High Profit Deals
* The Rehab Process, Locating the Best Contractors to Get the Job Done,Prescreening Contractors,Writing an Iron Clad Contract to Gain Control
* 4 Strategies to Funding Deals when You Have No Money
* Selling Houses in a Down Market, The Most Critical “WOW” Factors to Sell, Marketing to Attract “A” Credit Buyers, Prescreening Buyers in 4 Minutes to Ensure They Can Buy Handling Marketing Response, Finding Down payment Funds

As you can see this will be a knowledge packed day full of excitement and education. Make a list of your questions and have them ready for her at her table following the end of the session. Robyn will remain near her table answering all questions possible for each and every one. Pre-register before and pay only $19.99 or $34.99 at the door. You can pre-register here and get the early bird pricing - http://bit.ly/s1CGW
Keep in mind, seating is very limited. Robyn is coming all the way from Connecticut and this will be a powerful event!
Date:
Saturday, November 7, 2009
Time:
9:00am - 4:00pm
Location:
Sam Seltzer's Steakhouse Banquet Room
Street:
12635 South Cleveland Ave
City/Town:
Fort Myers, FL

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The real estate market is changing in Fort Myers. We are seeing a lack of inventory in lower priced homes including bidding wars. Typically these homes are in the $100,000 - $199, 000 price range. If you have a Fort Myers or Cape Coral home in this price range now really is the time to have it marketed by a Fort Myers Listing Agent.

Luxury homes in Fort Myers are selling as well, and as you may imagine, they are selling for significantly less than they were 3 or 4 years ago. Homes in the exclusive community of Fiddlesticks Golf & Country Club that sold in 2006 for over 1 million are now selling for almost half of that.

If you are selling a Luxury Fort Myers home, the good news is that these homes are also selling. However, the flip side is that it is important to keep in mind the turn of events in the Fort Myers luxury real estate market of loss in home value. Luxury homes are losing value due to an increase in foreclosures in Fort Myers Luxury home market share. It would be prudent to not price your home too expensively. The most regrettable thing that could happen is for your home to sit on the market with multiple price reductions. We call this "Chasing the Market" in Real Estate.

Sit down with your Financial Planner or Real Estate Professional and evaluate the value of your home while mapping out a strategy to achieve your goal of selling. One way you can do this is to have an in-depth study of the value of comparable sold homes in your community.

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Shane and Joy Goushaw

Licensed Professional Florida Realtors

Sandals Realty

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Sellers, we can empathize with the challenges that you are facing when selling your Lee County home. It is a market unlike any other that you will probably ever find yourself in again. In my research on the Greater Fort Myers and the Beach MLS I have found many reasons for the unfortunate event of expired listings. And, after a stellar track record with selling homes in a declining market, I think we have the authority to share what will and will not sell your Fort Myers or Cape Coral home.

Price - Good homes expire because of incorrect pricing.

Are you chasing the market with a price that is too high? Homes are selling in the Fort Myers, Cape Coral and Lee County real estate market but the homes do need to be priced competitively and also aggresively to stand out from the crowd.

Has your home expired because it was "over-priced?" As Listing Agents in Fort Myers who genuinely care about our clients accomplishing their goal of selling and moving onto the next phase of their lives, we will explore pricing strategies with you. We will seek to understand where you are coming from and what is holding you back from pricing your home in-line with the comparable solds. If you do not have the wiggle room with price because of what you owe on your mortgage, then we can discuss alternatives to conventional sales. We have successfully closed Short Sales in Fort Myers and in Cape Coral. That may not be your only option, some of our sellers consider bringing cash to closing if they are able to. Neither solution is a pleasant one. We understand and will help discuss all options with you for the best possible outcome.

Photos - Poor image quality and few photos will cause your home to get overlooked by Fort Myers and Cape Coral Buyers.

All too often I have looked through the Fort Myers MLS expired listings and have seen such poor quality in photographs and lack of photographs. As Realtors using the Fort Myers MLS, we are able to input up to 10 photos in the Fort Myers MLS, so why did your Fort Myers Listing Agent only take a shot of the front of the home that is not cropped and has not had the brightness and contrast adjusted to make it look sharp and stand out? Shane is a photographer and has taken photography classes, he also a graphic design background. He has the skills to make your images stand-out. Your home needs to be displayed with pride. There is an art-form to taking photos of a home, we can discuss with you the best ways to capture your home on camera. We also add virtual tours to every listing. Again, this is such an important and often over-looked means of marketing a home.

Communication and Updates on Market Condition - Homes expire because of lack of communication from Listing Agent to Seller about the Real Estate Conditions. Agents need to continually be re-evaluating the strategy for selling the home and communicating with the Seller.

One of the biggest complaints that Sellers who have left their former Listing Agent shares with us about the previous relationship is "I never heard from my Realtor." Or, "They never told me when homes sold or new listings went on the market in my community." We provide our Sellers with a ListingBook Account, so that you can stay updated on the market trends in your community. You will see just like we do, when new homes go on the market, have a price reduction, are marked pending and then sold. We will also stay in touch with you and discuss what these changes in your community mean for you, the seller. This will help you to trust us when we make recommendations on strategy for selling your home.

The bottom line is that your home should not expire without selling. The Real Estate relationship between Listing Agent & Seller needs to be built on trust. If you trust your professional agent, you are going to trust the recommendations that they make to sell your home. You can be sure that we care about your goal of selling your home and will come up with an individualized strategy and marketing campaign to help you sell.

Selling a home in Fort Myers, Cape Coral or Lee County is kind of like riding on a plane during turbulence. You know it will end, but it is a bumpy ride. It is bumpy enough in this real estate market, we want to smooth out the journey for you as much as we are able.

Please don't hesitate to call if you have any real estate questions pertaining to selling your Fort Myers home. We will do our very best to answer you through honest insight into the current Fort Myers real estate market.

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Shane & Joy Goushaw

Licensed Florida Professional Realtors

Sandals Realty

Cell: 239-823-5280

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