We have added categories of price ranges and a new IDX service to the Duffy website, right on the front page. As well, buyers can save their listings, get instant email updates of new homes hitting the market and schedule showings directly from the listings!
http://www.tinyurl.com/search-for-homes
Check it out!
Starting January 2009, Duffy Realty will heavily promote a seminar and open house weekend at the end of each month to buyers on air, in newspapers and on our websites. You will be able to hold your home open knowing that hundreds of other Duffy sellers will be doing the same. We will also offer our Staging seminar at the same time.
When the weather outside is frightful and buyers want to look for homes they definitely head to the computer. Your pictures are the tool that will make that buyer want to see your home…or not! Read the rest of this entry »
I have spent a lot of time in the past year driving from listing to listing in my Duffy mobile. Read the rest of this entry »
Why is it that the media always focuses on doom & gloom? Do they think that’s what sells? I don’t. In fact, over the past few months, I’ve avoided watching the news as much as possible, at the suggestion of Rhonda who seems to know what is better for all of us in the grand scheme of things. I found myself worrying over things beyond my control. Gas prices through the roof, stocks on a downward spiral & it seemed everyone was in foreclosure. Actually, 97% (Yes, 97%) of consumers pay their mortgages, high gas prices were short lived (thank goodness; it’s now cheaper than I can remember for a long time) & the stock market, a risk anyway, has a way of working itself out over time.
With the current economic recession and high unemployment rates, one would think the current average FICO score would be lower than in better economic times; however, the current average FICO score is 723!
