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Polly adds Total Expert to its API integration roster

Housing Wire

Total Expert provides customer engagement solutions for more than 175 modern financial institutions, unifying data, marketing, sales, and compliance solutions. Last August, Polly enhanced its existing APIs, including its PPE Initial Lock, “to better accommodate lenders amid a contracting mortgage environment.”

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What to do when your buyer wants to make a lowball property offer

Housing Wire

By definition, a lowball offer is an offer that is significantly below market value. This is where the problem can start — in practice, agents and their clients consider a an offer to be a lowball if it’s significantly below the asking price. Asking price and market value are not always the same thing.

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Understanding the Basics of Buying Your First Home - Part 2 - Researching and Finding Your Dream Home

Eppraisal

Now that you've assessed your financial readiness, obtained a pre-approval for a mortgage, and engaged a real estate agent, it's time to dive into the exciting process of researching and finding your dream home. In the first blog of our series, we covered the basics of preparing yourself for buying your first home.

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5 Mistakes to Avoid When Selling Your Home

Appraisal Hub

One day you’re optimistic because you met a seemingly committed buyer at the open house or showing, and the next day you’re frustrated because they changed their mind or didn’t follow through. Mistake #3: Not having a professional home appraisal Appraisal firms can determine your property’s real market value.

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Pros and Cons of Selling Your Home As-Is

Cleveland Appraisal Blog

However, sometimes properties may have specific problems that are too serious and can’t go unnoticed at an open house. Selling your house as-is has the apparent advantage of relinquishing the need to deal with your old place when you prepare to move to your new home. What does it mean to sell your home as-is?

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4 Ways to Help Manage Client Expectations

McKissock

Real estate transactions are similar to putting together a jigsaw puzzle. One of the main responsibilities of a real estate agent is to effectively organize all the competing interests of a transaction (or pieces of the jigsaw puzzle). Agents should prepare a full seller-net sheet for their sellers.

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7 Common Questions Clients Have Before Selling Their Home

McKissock

Q: “What are methods to determine the value of my home?”. A Comparative Market Analysis (CMA) : An informal evaluation that determines the market value of a property by comparing it to similar properties in the same area. Q: “What factors can influence the value of my home?”. Marketing efforts are neutralized.

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