REThink Real Estate with Tara-nicholle Nelson

Closing delays costly when buying new home

February 7, 2013

REThink Real Estate Tara-Nicholle NelsonInman News® Q: I have signed a contract to purchase a newly built home. The homes have been on the market for 420 days. My lender is having issues meeting the closing date agreed upon, and now the builder is charging me $300 per day for each day closing is delayed. [...]

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7 deadly financial sins

February 6, 2013

Book Review: ‘The Affluent Investor: Financial Advice to Grow and Protect Your Wealth’ Tara-Nicholle NelsonInman News® Book Review Title: "The Affluent Investor: Financial Advice to Grow and Protect Your Wealth" Author: Phil DeMuth Publisher: Barron’s, 2013; 224 pages; $20.69 In life, they say, the bigger they are, the harder they fall. And in the wake [...]

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Buyers need the right ‘parenting style’ for agents

February 5, 2013

Mood of the Market Tara-Nicholle NelsonInman News® Recently, I had a conversation with a first-time buyer, who was trying to think through precisely how to articulate her house-hunt wish list to her agent in a way that was clear on her wants vs. needs. During the course of our talk, I found myself briefing her [...]

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Improve salability of home riddled with permit issues

January 31, 2013

REThink Real Estate Tara-Nicholle NelsonInman News® Q: I’m having trouble selling my place because I added a second kitchen in what was the garage without permits. My bad, but I will have to take it out to get conventional lending. It’s a two-story house with one bedroom (with a walk-in closet), a living room and [...]

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Break out of your ‘career cage’

January 29, 2013

Book Review: ‘Be a Free Range Human: Escape the 9-5, Create a Life You Love and Still Pay the Bills’ Tara-Nicholle NelsonInman News® Book Review Title: "Be a Free Range Human: Escape the 9-5, Create a Life You Love and Still Pay the Bills" Author: Marianne Cantwell Publisher: Kogan Page, 2013; 280 pages; $19.95 I [...]

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Are your clients’ real estate wishes feasible or fantasy?

January 28, 2013

Mood of the Market Tara-Nicholle NelsonInman News® As a real estate agent, every client or family you work with has their own personal quirks, individual wishes and unique needs that must be met. That said, over the years you end up running into some of the same fact scenarios over and over again. One such [...]

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Strategies to help defray real estate closing costs

January 24, 2013

REThink Real Estate Tara-Nicholle NelsonInman News® Q: I just finished the process of applying for a home loan with a well-known local mortgage brokerage. I was told that the only loan I could qualify for with my credit, income and $10,000 for a down payment was a house purchase price of $310,000, with a 3.5 [...]

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Take finance advice from TV gurus with grain of salt

January 22, 2013

Book Review: ‘Pound Foolish: Exposing the Dark Side of the Personal Finance Industry’ Tara-Nicholle NelsonInman News® Book Review Title: "Pound Foolish: Exposing the Dark Side of the Personal Finance Industry" Author: Helaine Olen Publisher: Portfolio-Penguin, 2012; 304 pages; $27.95 Ahh, personal finance pundits. With the exception of political commentators and televangelists, few can match their [...]

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Take finance advice from TV gurus with grain of salt

January 22, 2013

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Take finance advice from TV gurus with grain of salt

January 22, 2013

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