Inessa Telefus - Charlottesville Real Estate

with Terry Sullivan, President of UVA

posted by Inessa Telefus @ 5:50 PM

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posted by Inessa Telefus @ 7:31 AM

Sellers to Buyers: Stop With the Lowball Offers!

 Sellers to Buyers: Stop With the Lowball Offers!

Home buyers who are looking for big discounts on housing nowadays are finding that their lowball offers are no longer sticking with sellers, and that their offers are getting a flat-out “no” when they’re way below the asking price.
"Right off the bat, buyers say, 'I want a steal,' and I tell them they have to wipe that word out of their vocabulary," says Jackie Smith, a real estate agent in Florida’s Broward and Palm Beach counties.
"People come in, and they think the market is 2008 or 2009, when sellers were desperate," says Jennifer Sommers, a real estate agent with Nestler Poletto Sotheby's International Realty in Boca Raton, Fla. "They're not desperate. Not at all."
What qualifies as a lowball offer? Randy Bianchi, co-owner of Paradise Properties of Florida in West Palm Beach, Fla., says that sellers generally consider lowball offers to be less than 90 percent of their asking price.
Buyers, on the other hand, he says tend to say offers of 80 percent to 85 percent of the list price are reasonable.
“The mistake some buyers make is going so low it’s not even reasonable,” says Stephanie Chen, a seller in Weston, Fla., who refused to take an offer $40,000 less than her asking price. “We just walked away from the table.”
Another big mistakes home buyers are making in today’s changing housing market is that they are taking too long to make an offer, real estate professionals say, and because of that they are losing out on getting the house they want. The number of for-sale homes on the market nationwide has shrunk considerably in recent months, bringing out higher competition for properties, particularly for move-in ready homes.
Source: “Mistakes Homebuyers Make as Seller’s Market Looms,” Sun Sentinel (June 14, 2012)

posted by Inessa Telefus @ 7:39 PM

Horse and Buggy dinner and produce delivered to my front door!

Many of my friends and clients ask me where I get my produce.  Our small town has a lot of choices.  Among regular grocery stores, we also have WF. City Market, IY, Rebecca's, and Retail Relay to choose from.  I visit these "health food" stores more or less regularly.  Here is another name to add to the list - Horse and Buggy Produce and it is delivered to my front door!  A week or so ago, Brett Wilson, owner of H&B, cooked dinner for me and my friends.  We learned many easy recipes and he talked about organic, local, minimal spray, etc... produce.   Everything he gets from farmers is truly local, less than 60 miles from C'ville and it's in season!  Here are some pics from our dinner party ;)



My friend Ann and I decided to split a weekly share.  Got our first delivery yesterday, lots of food: potatoes, cauliflower, onions, lettuce, peaches, beets, nectarines, eggs, and more!   Very well priced too! 

Labels: brett wilson, Charlottesviile real estate, charlottesville, City Market, Horse and Buggy, local food, Retail Relay, Whole Foods

posted by Inessa Telefus @ 4:59 PM