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Get Your Home Ready to Sell

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Get Your Home Ready for Sale!  Don't wait too long!


Hey Everybody! I'm Tristan Emond with Mindful Living Realty.

Welcome back to Tristan and his WHITEBOARD - LIVE!

Today we are talking to home sellers who are thinking about getting your home ready for sale.
And I know that every REALTOR will probably tell you, "Yup. You got it ready, now is a great time to list!"

I'm here to tell you now IS a great time to list.

Lemme tell you why.

Since January 1st, where in one of my last videos I reported we had a really low amount of inventory, we have put well over 100 plus homes under contract. Over a hundred under contract.

There was on property we looked at with a buyer, he decided not to put an offer on it, But eight offers on that one property. Eight offers!

Also, I have been receiving a number of emails from other agents saying "Hey, I've got buyers. They are looking in this area, in this price point. They can't find anything they like Do you have anything coming up?"

We have a buyer demand that's looking for properties in the Rapid City area.

Now is a great time to put your home on the market!

Even if you’re not ready to put your home on the market yet,
it’s a good time to get it ready to be put on the market.

You may need to do a few things to make sure that home is as clean and sparkling as possible.

To help, I have created a bunch of videos, a seven-step series of videos, to talk about how you can prepare your home for sale.

I've also prepared a report "Seven Steps for Getting Your Home Ready for Sale!"

Both of these items you can have delivered directly to your inbox. Actually, directly to your Facebook Messenger.

All you have to do is type in the comments below "GIMME" and this information will be sent directly to you.

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This year reminds me of 2017 where by February 15th we were in the height of the spring market. If you waited until May you were almost too late.

If you are thinking about listing this spring, don't wait until May. Get it done as soon as possible.

Get it ready now!

If you have any questions, if you have any concerns, download my reports, then get a hold of us.
We'll come by take a look at your property, and get you started.


Thanks so much guys! Have a great day. Talk to you next time on Tristan and his WHITEBOARD.

The Real Estate Agent of the Family | An Emond Team Client Story

We can be your real estate agent of the family…

It’s one thing to have 2 closings in one day.

It’s another when those 2 closings are from the same family – the parents AND the daughter.

But…let’s back up a bit.

Back in 2010, we helped the Fredrichs buy a cabin in the Hills for a vacation home.  They put love and sweat into it and made it into an amazing place!

As time went on, they sent their family and friends to us for real estate transactions.

Fast forward to 2018.  It was time to sell their cabin and buy a forever home closer to town.

At the same time, their daughter Emily had been approved to buy her first home.

We found the places they loved about the same time and scheduled the closing for the same day.  (their vacation cabin was under contract and was scheduled to close a few weeks later)

We kept each other on our toes as we handled all 3 transactions at the same time.

Through their attention to detail and a couple of great homes, closing day finally arrived.

It was an honor to sit next to them as they signed their documents.  Emily was so excited, and Jay and Cindy were relieved to be moving forward.

A few months after that, we sold an amazing lot in the Hills to their other daughter and son-in-law for them to build their dream home.

The Fredrichs trusted in us to help their family move up in life.

We are ready to do the same for you.  Our family…helping your family.
We can be your family’s REALTORS for life.

Are you ready to get started?  Shoot us a message and let’s schedule a time to get together.

Or fill out the form on our page!  https://rapidcityhomes.net/emond-team/

Conventional versus Government Mortgage Loans | Tristan and his WHITEBOARD - LIVE!

Conventional versus Government Loans

Tristan and his WHITEBOARD - LIVE!

Conventional Versus Government Mortgage Loans

Hi everybody. This is Tristan Emond with Mindful Living Realty. Welcome back to Tristan and his WHITEBOARD - LIVE!

Today I'm with Angelia Dale with Gateway Mortgage.

And today we're going to talk about the difference between conventional and government loans.

Downpayment

So first of all, Angelia, give us a quick synopsis of what each one is. Okay so your conventional loans - they require a down payment. You know, anywhere between 5% and however much you want to put down. They're more your traditional loans that we do.

Our government loans are FHA VA and Rural Development. Some of them require 0% down up to 3 1/2% down for the FHA loans.

Okay so biggest difference at this point is down payment. So Conventional is 5% I'm sure plus, right? Government is zero to three and a half.

Okay so that's the main, obviously, money thing. So, if you have don't have as much money down, you're going to be with an FHA, VA or RD type of loan. If you've got a bigger percentage down, conventional is probably the way to go. Yes.

So, what's next on these?

Rules and Regs

Conventional loans have less rules regarding the appraisals, what you can do with the house, things like that. Where the government loans some of those loans require - you can't rent out your house, you have some different mortgage insurance requirements, that kind of thing.

Okay so conventional - less rules. Government - more rules.

But that's because I assume that the government is financing it, so they're going to say "Hey if we're gonna give you the money, you're going to follow our guidelines" correct? Yeah you are getting into a program that has zero to three and a half percent down, so there are some regulations required like that.

Very good. Okay next up?

Income and Assets

Our next step on conventional - they are not as particular on income, on assets, that stuff.  Your government programs - most of them have income requirements or asset requirements. So, they're a little bit tighter on the government programs regarding what they're looking for.

Okay so loose-er income regs (right?) on conventional.  And government has more income regs over here. 'Cause, again, you're basically buying into a program that allows you to have a lower percent down, right? Therefore, they're going to have more rules.

Home Condition

Okay last step. What about - I know with some of these government loans...you go into the property and there's the peeling paint outside or you've got a cracked window that has an issue.

The government programs are a lot tighter regarding health and safety issues. So, when you have peeling paint, broken screens or broken windows, things like that, that becomes an issue. The government programs want to make sure that you don't have a lot to fix when you go into a home, because you're going in with zero or three and a half percent down. So, you don't have a lot of assets to fix that property. They are a bit tighter on their appraisal requirements.

Where a conventional - they don't care so much if there's peeling paint on the house, because you don't have to go in and fix that.

Right - so we've got less conditions on the home (conventional) and then we've got more conditions over here (government).

Cool! Yep.

All right, well if that kind of wraps it up for us.

Thanks so much for coming on today and hopefully you can see or got some information here. I'll see you next time on Tristan and his WHITEBOARD!

Thank you!


Angelia's legal info:

Angelia Dale, Loan Originator, NMLS #175544

Gateway Mortgage Group

Rapid City, SD

605-490-2246

angelia.dale@gatewayloan.com

Gateway Mortgage Group is a registered service mark of Gateway Mortgage Group, LLC NMLS 7233. All loans subject to program guidelines and final underwriting approval. Contact local branch for details. 1301 W Omaha St #118, Rapid City, SD 57701. South Dakota Mortgage Lender License #ML.05071.

The Dream Came True for Our Rapid City Homebuyer - An Emond Team Client Story

Dreams do come true.

On December 1, 2011, Jessica posted on her Facebook status:

“Someday I aspire to own a home on the Boulevard.”

Someone should have warned her about putting things out there…  😊

In the fall of 2014, we listed a historical home on 11^th street.  The owners had bought it as a complete fixer-upper.  They had worked to make it a cute space while retaining as many of the historical pieces as possible.

The open houses on this property were phenomenal!  But…the comments were the same.  People loved the idea of an old home, but they really didn’t want to live in one.

The following Spring was the beginning of Jessica’s dream.  She called me to view the home.  As she walked through the living room, the floors creaked.  Her eyes lit up. 

I knew she was a buyer that would appreciate all this home had to offer.  She loved the history.  She loved the original woodworking, the staircase, the front porch.  She loved the potential of what she could do to make it her own.

AND….it was in her price range.

She quickly had her parents check it out (it turns out I knew her dad…), and excitedly put in an offer.

The sellers accepted and we were off to the races.

This picture of her on the front porch, arms raised in victory – is one of my favorites.

She was ecstatic.

She was realizing her dream of homeownership from 4 years earlier.

And we were along for the ride.

Another reason we do what we do  Helping others experience the dream of owning their own home.

In this case, her FIRST home.

You deserve a place to call home and an awesome real estate transaction to boot.  Call us.  We are here to help.

Your Family.  Your Home.

https://rapidcityhomes.net/emond-team/

Rapid City Real Estate Market in 2018 | Tristan and his WHITEBOARD LIVE!

2018 Rapid City Real Estate Market

Tristan and his WHITEBOARD - LIVE!

Rapid City Real Estate Market in 2018.

Hi everybody - happy 2019 and welcome back to Tristan and his WHITEBOARD LIVE!

So... of course we need to check out the 2018 Rapid City residential real estate numbers. See what happened last year.

So, you can see up here I've got a bunch of numbers. We're gonna go over a few things - we'll look at how things went.

We see the last year we were up 6 and 1/2 percent on our average sold price from 2017. What was really interesting to me was that in 2012 - since 2012 we're up 21%.  So steady growth - consistently - in our market as far as sold price is concerned.

I like to look at the price points that are selling the most to kind of give you an idea of where all the action is going at.  We can see in 2016 in the $150.000 to $200,000 price range, we had about 513 sell.  And in the $200,000 to 250,000 range...365.  So quite a difference.

However, this year are 2018, the $200,000 to $250,000 is taking the lead.  Of course, that does make sense as the prices go up, we're seeing more sold in this area as more of those homes become mainstream.

Used to be, you could buy quite a bit of home for $150,000.  Now, you know, you almost need $200,000 to get into something that's really nice, right?

Of course, the above would also reflect days on market.  The more action we have, the lower days of market.  In 2016 we had 47 days on the market and we're down about 10 days here in 2018.
A very strong market if things continue to click.

This red number down here is the number I want to drive some attention to.

That is how many homes are on the market as of January 1.  That's low.  That's not that many homes on the market at all…compared to where we usually are. We're usually in the 500 range about this time.

I see a lot of buyer pent-up demand.  We could be seeing an early spring season this year - you never know, but I think I can say we might have some of that coming here.

We'll see what happens!

Glad you're around for this 2019!   Hope to see you next time on Tristan and his WHITEBOARD! Have a great day!

- Tristan

Should You List Your Home Winter? | Tristan and his WHITEBOARD LIVE!

Should You List Your Home in Winter? 

Tristan and his WHITEBOARD - LIVE!

 
Should you list your home in the winter?  Or keep it active through the Holiday Season?

Hi everybody!  This is Tristan Emond with Mindful Living Realty.

Welcome back to Tristan and his WHITEBOARD - LIVE!

Today we're going to talk about something that's pretty important as we're getting close to the holiday season and winter. And that question is: should you keep your home on the market or should you list your property through the holidays and the winter time?  And the answer actually is - it depends!  (of course, right?)

Less Competition

My first point for the reason that you should keep your home on the market or still list your property is there is less competition.  You've got people that are like "You know, I'm just gonna wait till spring to list my home because it's the busy season...  blah blah blah.”

But there people that are coming into town and they need to buy home in December. So, if yours is only one of the “X” number that are available, you have a better chance of getting yours sold…because you didn't take it off the market and wait until spring to sell.

That might give you the best reason right there for keeping your home on the market.

If your home isn't on the market, you're not going to be able to sell the thing right?

Now, I don't want to be the one to say this is definitely going to happen for you.  Some Decemebers are great.  We've had great Januarys where we sold a lot of homes. But there have also been Januarys and Decembers where home sales are really, really slow.

Now typically, it does tend to slow down and the market will pick back up again in Spring. But if you list in the Spring with everybody else, then your competition is a lot higher, so you may not sell your home at that time either.

If your property is one that's been sitting on the market for awhile and you might just need that extra amount of time frame to get that buyer to come along at the right time.

Holiday Cheer

The other point to consider is Holiday Cheer.

If it's a very festive year - people are busy partying and having a good time going to people's houses and doing that kind of thing, real estate has a tendency to slow.  People are out doing other things that they enjoy more. However, if it's kind of one of those bah humbug sort of years, people are out buying, people are out selling, things happen in business a little more in those type of years.  Now of course that's kind of hard to judge, but it is a good point to realize how that happens.

Time Frame

And the third point of course is your time frame.  How soon do you need to sell? Where you at in your life as far as getting the property sold.

If it's something like "Well, you know, I can still next year, no big deal." Then you might consider not wanting to move during the winter and list in the Spring.  Certainly, up to you and how that works for you.

But if you need to sell and you really looking forward to get that property gone, you probably should keep it listed on the market because, as I said before, you can't sell if it isn't listed.

So those are my three points for selling during the winter for you to think about and for you determine what you might want to do.

If you have any questions please get a hold of us. We can look at the numbers and give you some ideas on how things work for where you are at in your neighborhood and how things have been selling.

Thanks again for watching Tristan and his WHITEBOARD. We will talk to you next time!

Sometimes You Gotta Win Clients Over | An Emond Team Client Story

Sometimes we have to win clients over.

Bad past experiences with another realtor can really suck.

In 2013, Brian and Mahala’s kids were gone.  It was time to downsize from their family home to a West Boulevard charmer.

A mutual friend hooked us up and we got the call to help out.

We had our work cut out for us.

When Brian and Mahala originally bought their home, Brian never felt like his agent had their back.  He silently questioned his loyalty and whether or not their best interests were really at the forefront.

Which led to a general distrust of realtors.

Understandable…

Since Mahala’s job at the time allowed minimal contact during the day, Brian became the guy to deal with “them thar” realtors.

Sarah and I were managing both transactions at once – making sure the buyer bought their house and arranging for the purchase of their new one.

It was a BUNCH of emails, texts, and phone calls.

And fortunately, with consistent communications and updates, we changed his mind about real estate agents.

“They made me believe again”

“The process was seamless from A thru Z. It could not have been more trouble-free. Tristan and Sarah held my hand through the entire process (figuratively). Tristan worked closely with our banker, inspector, and title company. He left nothing undone and kept a close eye on the details of the two transactions (even to the extent of gently nudging me on occasion)”

Since then, we have leased commercial spaces for his family.  We even helped Mahala into a wonderful space for her business when she decided to venture out on her own.

But it doesn’t stop there.

We regularly meet for lunch.  We talk about our kids, our businesses, Brian’s soccer and my football.

Because this real estate stuff is more than buying and selling.

It’s a relationship.  It’s a family.  Doing it right.

If you are ready to start your real estate journey with the Emond Team and become part of our family…let’s meet up.  We ain’t scary.  😊

Send us a message or hit up our website:

https://rapidcityhomes.net/emond-team/

We'd love to work with you!

- Tristan