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Front Porch Realty
Mobile: 1-919-219-1941 Office: 1-919-219-1941
Website Agent Listings Contact Heather B. Dunn"Heather specializes in residential real estate sales and is happy to put her many years of experience to work helping her client’s find the perfect new home, or sell their current home, anywhere in the Triangle or surrounding area. Heather believes in networking and can use her vast network of professionals to find the right agent for you " ... view Heather B. Dunn
I specialize in: Fuquay Varina, NC - Holly Springs, NC - Apex, NC - Cary, NC - Willow Springs, NC - Garner, NC -
"I grew up right here in the Triangle, just inside the beltline of Raleigh and lived in the same house until I left for college. Even then, I didn\'t venture too far; North Carolina State University was my home for the next four years where I majored in Social Work. While in school I worked several jobs, including a children\'s camp, an assisted " ... view Kelly Sauls
I specialize in: Cary, NC - Holly Springs, NC - Morrisville, NC - Fuquay Varina, NC - Apex, NC - Raleigh, NC -
The seller disclosure is a statement made in good faith regarding the condition of the home he/she is trying to sell. There is a seller disclosure form – called “Form 17” - that is required by most states in the USA and, in it, the home seller must make it known ...
The best atrium definition is that of a room with a roof open displaying the sky, but as with most things architecture (or even art) the atrium definition has changed with the passing of time. Originally, the atrium definition was that of an open roof to the sky in a rectangular ...
A bilateral contract is a pretty straightforward term. No horseplay there. It’s a legal agreement between two individuals who both agree to do (or not to do) a specific act. The truth is that, when you think of the standard contract, you think of a bilateral contract. It&r ...
Mortgage banker is the person or business that originates mortgages and receives payments. The mortgage banker typically sells these mortgages to investors and obtains service fees for the loans. The mortgage banker is a major initiator of Federal Housing Administration (FHA) and ...
When people think of home insurance policies, they usually only think about the obvious coverage of its house structure. But that, known as Dwelling Insurance, is only one of the coverage areas of a homeowner’s insurance umbrella.The personal property insurance is one of th ...
When someone says a house is abutting, it means it’s directly neighboring, that is, it’s adjacent to another property. So, abutter’s rights are the rights an existing property have when a developer builds an adjoining property; or even when an existing adjacent ...
There comes a time when every zealous homeowner asks himself – usually at a very inconvenient hour, like 3 am: Do I need Flood Insurance? The answer is: probably. Here’s why: Most homeowners insurance policy, renter, landlord, and business insurance policies exclude ...
You know what is the truest answer to “who can put a lien on your house”? Yourself. We’re not trying to be smart here; it’s the truth. Failing to pay up a debt is what gives way for a lien to be put on an asset like a house, so, a broad answer to wh ...
Hey, don’t feel ashamed for not knowing what is the difference between a real estate broker and a real estate agent. This is truly one of the most common real estate confusions out there. And the reason is that telling what is the difference between a real estate broker and ...
You probably don't have the correct knowledge to represent yourself. The seller pays the real estate commission, not the buyer, and real estate commissions are already set in the listing contract. It doesn't cost you anything to have your own agent represent you because the selle ...
On most transactions, there is usually a listing agent and a selling agent. The selling agent is sometimes referred to as the buyer\'s agent, because he works on the buyer\'s behalf and it easier than explaining each time that the \"selling agent\" is not the listing agent and is ...
If you truly want to purchase that property, the only ethical thing to do is to purchase it through that REALTOR. Otherwise, you could set up potential conflicts between your previous agent and whatever new agent you may choose. ...
Home Types Home Buyers Often Overlook
There’s a long distance between “common” sense and “good” sense, and most of the times, when it comes to real estate, “common sense” is just garbage. Do we sound too bitter? We’re sorry. It’s just how it is, and the reason for that is because real estate is constantly changing. Furthermore, because housing is a ...
Spring Real Estate Marketing Strategies: Are You Ready To Bloom?
Spring is a beautiful season where temperature starts to warm and flowers bloom. And to the real estate market, this feeling of new life isn't just a metaphor. For a bunch of reasons, it is widely regarded as the best time to buy a home. But if you’re a real estate agent, Spring has long begun when you prepared everything beforehand so that now - on the actual ...
Moving Tips: House Relocation Stress Free
Spring and the beginning of the Summer are widely regarded as The Best Times to Buy a House and we did write an article on How to buy a house quickly so people could benefit from that exciting race for the prize. But, if for real estate agents the championship is over after the closing of the house for sale; for you, the new homeowner, it’s just the beginning. ...
Increase Your Home Value With These Home Improvement Ideas
It’s a given. Whenever we decided the time to sell a house is getting closer, we think about all the home upgrades we could make in order to spike up our asking price. It’s also a given that you should have done that long before, so it won’t burden you so much or even delay you selling the house; after all, we all know that house renovation can take some ...
What Is A Credit Score And How Does It Impact Real Estate?
Although our Dollar bills bring the phrase “In God we trust”, it is fair to say that our financial system is actually based on trusting of another thing: credit. Yes, credit is the creed for most of our currency exchanges. And the credit score is a method of asserting your position on this trust/do-not-trust scale.On this article, we will try to explain ...
Buying A House With Cash Vs. Mortgage
Whenever someone decides to buy a house, there’s always that question: what if I pay it off with cash; all in one shot? Enticing as it may seem (for both the home seller and the home buyer) it’s not all black and white – if you’ve been following our Real Estate Tips and Advice for a while, you’ve probably realized by now that nothing in Real ...
Things Home Sellers Should NOT Do
We’ve made several articles in the past regarding things that home sellers should do to sell their house. We gave home staging tips and tricks, advice on how to optimize your next open house and even went oriental with Feng Shui to sell your home. But we never talked about the things home sellers should NOT do when selling a home. And you know, that’s ...
Top Things To Budget For When Rehabbing A Flip House
Rehabbing a house for sale purposes is an entirely different ball game than renovating a home for living purposes. Where you might have no problem dropping twenty grand to personalize a home how you like it, a prospective home buyer may have different ideas on where the money should go. In cases like these, fixing up the house for sale so it looks and works in an ...
Buying a house is a personal business transaction that requires signatures on legal documents such as a promissory note. Services of professional providers will also require a contract such as a realtor® housing inspector, property appraiser, and a real estate lawyer. The most important partnership during this transaction is with a licensed realtor® to work ...
QR Codes For Real Estate Signs
There has been a revolution going on when it comes to those traditional for sale real estate signs. Instead of the boring static old for sale real estate signs, savvy real estate agents and homeowners have been trying to improve curb appeal to lure clients to their home via modern high-tech smart “for sale” signs. And thank God for that! For sale ...
Crazy Things Real Estate Agents Have Done To Close A Deal
Real Estate is all about competition, and every single player takes part. The home seller is competing with other home sellers in the market to attract home buyers. The home buyers are running against other home buyers to see who’s the first to close a deal and get the house they like. And the real estate agents? Well… they are competing all the time. First, they ...
Real Estate Closing Process Tips
The worst thing about the lengthy and difficult home buying process is that it gets progressively difficult. Sure, getting a client is difficult, prepping the home/finding the right home is even more, but closing a real estate deal is arguably the most difficult part of the home buying process. When you’re closing a real estate deal you have to deal with a myriad of ...
Would You Live In A Haunted House If The Price Was Right?
Combine our Would you send your child to a religious school even though it’s not your religion? article with our Ghost Towns of America post and we arrive to this one: Would you live in a haunted house if the price was right? Let us tell a story to set the mood. Lower the light, put on some ghostly music and brace yourself. Years ago, Edwin Gonzalez and his wife ...
The Review Of RealEstateAgent.com Reviews -- And Yours!
Do you remember when Siskel and Ebert were pretty much the only guys reviewing movies? Siskel & Ebert at the Movies was the go-to TV show to find out what flick to check out that weekend. Every movie trailer ended a "...Siskel & Ebert give it X out of 5 stars..." almost as certainly as it started with "In a world..." Alas, Siskel and Ebert’s medium went the way ...
The Pros And Cons Of Installing An Inground Swimming Pool
What does the house of your dreams look like? Would you rather have a pool or an uncropped piece of land behind your house? Depending on your age and geographic location, you may be in favor of the former or the latter. We all love to wallow in water during a hot summer day. But should we replace the ground with water? Which one is more valuable? Hard to decide. In this ...