Zane Gerringer

Hi,

I'm Zane Gerringer, and I'm a top-producing Realtor at Allen Tate Realtors on North Elm Street in Greensboro, NC. Technically, this Allen Tate office is located on Pisgah Church Road next to the Panera Bread, so I'm not sure why they call it the North Elm Branch. They don't call the Allen Tate office on Green Valley the 'Benjamin Parkway Office'.

If you are a buyer, I can help you negotiate the best deal on your real estate purchase, and it's a service that won't cost you a dime. When you are buying and working with me, you're in the driver's seat - I'm just here to help and to make sure you avoid costly mistakes and ensure a smooth transaction.

If you are thinking about selling, Allen Tate Realtors has a lot ot offer. There are some pretty impressive statistics showing our market share as well as how many of our own listings we sell. In this situation, dual agency can be a great thing - Allen Tate is a big company, and of course you want the hundreds of Allen Tate agents to show your home as well as any other firm. Just be leary of dual agency offered in smaller firms.

Please call me if you are in the market to buy or sell at 336-675-5597. Visit me online and start your home search at ZaneGerringer.com. People often ask me what type of properties I work with - anything residential in Guilford, Alamance & Forsyth Counties. I work in all price ranges helping clients to understand the market and make the best of it - whether buying or selling.

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Allen Tate North Elm is located at 303-C Pisgah Church Rd., Greensboro, NC 27455

Allen Tate Green Valley is located at 717 Green Valley Rd, Greensboro, NC 27408

If you're starting your home search in the Triad, look no further than ZaneGerringer.com. This Greensboro real estate website is a great resource for buyers in Guilford County, Forsyth and Alamance counties. Here are just a few of the unique benefits of this real estate website:

• ZaneGerringer.com has Popular Greensboro Real Estate Neighborhood Searches with mapping for Fisher Park, Grandover, Green Valley, Hamilton Forest, Hamilton Lakes, Irving Park, Kirkwood, Lake Jeanette, Sedgefield, Starmount Forest, & Sunset Hills to name a few. Plus you can customize and save any neighborhood search or Triad home search that you can think of!
• ZaneGerringer.com also features Greensboro Real Estate Resources for making smart buying decisions and explaining closing costs, loan types and more.
• ZaneGerringer.com has a really neat interest rate tool that shows you current rate trends for North Carolina - what the average interest rate is currently for different loan products as well as what it has been over the past several days.

This website is under development and sure to get even better with time, so please check back in for all of your Greensboro Real Estate needs. Zane is striving to build a useful tool for your Greensboro area home search as well as a great way to display homes for sale for sellers.

Here's a screenshot of this handy Greensboro Real Estate Home Search tool:

Thinking of selling your home yourself? In this market it will be more challenging than ever. The same principles that help real estate professionals (such as me) sell homes should help you. Some of these techniques are as follows:

• You need to price extremely competitively – I offer a free service to FSBO’s (For Sale By Owner’s) to help them price their property at zanegerringer.com. No strings – no gimmicks. Just drop me a line or call.

• You need exposure to the marketplace – the internet is the place to be, and you need to have your property syndicated to all of the websites that folks are using to search for their new home.

• Don’t overlook the simple things – once you get people through the door, the home should be tidy – always look at the property through the eyes of the buyer. Anything perceived as work for them will be felt in your wallet or pocketbook should you receive an offer.

Truth be told, most buyers are looking at property with a real estate agent. If you are offering your house for sale by owner without advertising that you will co-broke with an agent (pay their fee of 3% or so) you are drastically hurting your chances. Or even worse, if you have it in your mind that you will not pay a fee to a buyer’s agent, then expect to take a big hit on the price to get your home sold and the number of days on market to climb.

There are always exceptions to the rules of course, and you might live in a great neighborhood or have someone that you know that would like to buy from you but for the rest of us it’s a matter of getting your home out there and being realistic about what to expect.

To learn more, and get the ball rolling on deciding which real estate model works for you, I encourage you to visit my site, drop me a line and take advantage of the FREE 30 minute for sale by owner (FSBO) consultation I provide as a service to my community.

You may have heard of something called the Good Neighbor Next Door Program or ‘GNND’ for short. It’s a HUD program that allows firefighters, emergency medical technicians (EMT), school teachers and policeman to place bids in a lottery style drawing on select houses.

The great thing is if you are the winning bidder, you purchase these homes at a 50% discount off of their list price. You have to plan on living in the house as an owner occupant, but after three years you can sell and literally pocket the equity. I don’t know why anyone that qualifies and has a few spare hours a week to look at the few available Good Neighbor Next Door listings in their area wouldn’t take advantage of the program. You have to work with a local HUD certified broker to place your bids and view the homes, and you have to be extremely persistent and plan on bidding for a while before you’re the lucky winner.

I am an experienced HUD-Certified Broker and can tell you about the ups and downs of purchasing a HUD foreclosure. HUD foreclosures can be a pain, they aren’t necessarily a good deal, they are sometimes run-down, they might smell, there isn’t any power on when you view them – I can go on and on. BUT, for those brave souls that would take the extra initiative and throw their hat in the ring until they get an accepted bid, this could be a great opportunity! How many times are you presented with the opportunity to buy a home for 50% off of list price? And this might be more like 60% off market value once you put a little elbow grease and improvements into your new home! I don’t know, but if I were a firefighter, emergency medical technicians (EMT), school teacher or police officer, I’d be out hunting for a GNND (Good Neighbor Next Door) HUD foreclosure!

To view GNND listings, visit http://www.zanegerringer.com/good-neighbor-next-door-homes.html