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The greatest compliment for a condominium unit is that the REALTOR who is selling it actually lives there. That way they are not asking you to do something that they haven't. Joann Rankin feels that way about the Clifton Lofts condos. She has been there from the start, lives there now and plans to be there for a long time to come. When you buy a condminium, you buying neighbors as well as a home! One way that Joann introduces prospective buyers to the other condo owners is to host parties on ... Read Full Post

One of our agents, Michal Kruger came into my office the other day and started showing me pictures of one of her listings...2174 Park Boundary Road. if you know one thing about me, it is that I like to cook. My son Craig and I cook together all of the time and our entire family likes to hang ou together in the kitchen. Well, since I am the technologist for a real estate office, I thought I had seen everything. Boy was I wrong! Check out the kitchen--chock full of GE Monogram appliances...and ... Read Full Post

The Southern Indiana MLS is coming! The MLS is coming! Our site will soon have bothLouisville and Southern Indiana MLS listings available for clients on both sides of the river! Why am I so excited about this...well, for starteds, I actually live in Utica and have lived in Southern Indiana for the past 10 years. I have watched our real estate values suffer simply because out of town potential buyers get their MAIN exposure only to Louisville homes and the southern Indiana homes only get incid... Read Full Post

OK, I realize that there are two types of people that read my blog: REALTORS and People looking for homes in the Louisville area. For the sake of this post only, I'd like to hear comments back from just people looking for homes only and NOT from REALTORS, Sometimes those of us in the business use terms like IDX, MLS, and map based searching to describe the type of home search we are providing to you online. I'd like to try something different. I have listed below three typical home searches t... Read Full Post

So you want a New Home in the Louisville Kentucky area. Where do you start? if you have never built a new home before (or had a new home built for you before...) Then it can be a very frustrating time. You have a vision of what you want, but how can you bring that vision to reality? How to choose (objectively) the right neighborhood? All I can tell you is where I would start... First I'd look at the location...a REALTOR can be of great help here because your new home's value is as much determ... Read Full Post

1031 Exchanges are effective methods of transferring real estate wihout incurring undue capital gains taxes. Sounds great, right? But there's a lot more to it than meets the eye! Miss a deadline or incorrectly put this type of transaction together and you have not only negated any good --you can cost yourself THOUSANDS in taxes as well. There is a field guide to putting 1031 transactions together that is FREE and available at the National Association of Realtors site that I have linked below.... Read Full Post

One of the agents in our office just built a VERY COOL website for people to find private schools in the Louisville Kentucky metro area. His name is Matt Brown and I thought his site and effort were worth noting. His site is LouisvillePrivateSchoolGuide.com . While I have no ownership or connection to the site, he hired another local web developer to create it and I thought they did a pretty darn good job. Enjoy! Read Full Post

For a real estate investor, nothing is more powerful than information. You'd like to know how much someone owes on a proptery, when it was last sold and MANY other tidbits of info that will help you get the best deal. Here's a quick place to look up ALL courthouse documents online in Jefferson County. It is jeffersonCountyClerk.org. Go to the "Online Land Records" section and you can look up ALL court documents quickly and easily! It is a great resource for the investor and a good tool! I wil... Read Full Post

OK, so you are going to use a REALTOR that will list your home on BOTH Louisville and Southern Indiana MLSs. And you are going to ask up front what your REALTOR is going to do to market your home. Here are some other tips to get great exposure: Have as many pictures taken of your house as possible! (currently both boards will support up to 20 pictures of your house. This is IMPORTANT! Our internal studies have shown that potential buyers OFTEN ask for more photos BEFORE physically going to lo... Read Full Post

So you are thinking of selling your southern indiana home? Maybe you are moving out of the area? Perhaps you have been transferred to a new location? Whether yout needs are to get TOP dollar for your home or to get your home sold quickly in a buyer's market, there are three things that will help you get there: EXPOSURE, EXPOSURE, EXPOSURE! (and you thought real estate was all about location, right?) When you sell, you can't really affect the location of your home, but you CAN get the MOST exp... Read Full Post