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RE/MAX Advantage
Mobile: 1-718-614-7086
Website Agent Listings Contact Craig Shatilla, Broker"Making the real estate process both confidence building and enjoyable for my clients is what drives me the most. If you are looking for a Realtor that truly cares about you and your best interests, you are in the right hands. With over 33 years of experience in negotiating and collaborating for my clients, I provide a clear path for which you " ... view Craig Shatilla, Broker
I specialize in: Youngsville, NC - Wake Forest, NC - Clayton, NC - Raleigh, NC - Apex, NC - Rolesville, NC -
Re/Max One Realty
Mobile: 1-919-438-2655 Office: 1-919-751-4663
Website Agent Listings Contact Jennifer Franklin-Rowe"When you work with me, you are getting the professionalservice you deserve. I strive to make the home-buyingexperience as smooth and stress-free as possible. It is mymission to walk with you every step of the way, from homeshopping to the closing table and all steps in between. I pridemyself in being able to personalize the experience for " ... view Jennifer Franklin-Rowe
I specialize in: Clayton, NC -
To depreciate is to lose value for something. Depreciation is the act of losing worth.Connecting with real estate, Property depreciation can be both an accounting method typically used to assess the decrease of value of something stretched over time in order to reduce taxable inc ...
Asking price, also called offering price, listing price, ask price and asked price, is the value at which a real estate is offered for sale. Typically, the asking price is the lowest value a home seller will accept in order to sell the property. But that will depend on the market ...
Earthquake insurance is the type of insurance policy that specifically covers damages to your real estate caused by seismic activities. It can refer both to the rare coverage against earthquakes that a very comprehensive homeowner’s insurance policy covers, and to a separa ...
3D Printed Homes are basically homes that were printed via 3D Printers. Though semantically the phrase is pretty obvious and straightforward, there’s a lot we need to contextualize to make sense of it. 3D Printing is a form of printing that goes beyond what is regularly u ...
Also called “Grey shell, “Bare Shell”, and “Artic shell”, a Cold Shell could be described as the more radical version of a Vanilla Shell. If Vanilla Shells have HVAC, plumbing, and the basics; cold shells are completely unfinished. Cold shells have ...
A Homeowner’s Association (HOA) is an organized group of homeowners in a home subdivision, condominium, or cooperative complex. They come together and found a Homeowner’s Association in order to take actions and precautions against shared concerns regarding environmen ...
First, stay calm. Freaking out won’t help anyone. Whenever there’s an accident everyone gets hyper and tense; being calm will be a blessing to everyone. Plus; it’s your house. You’re supposed to lead. Calm everyone down, determine the injuries and or damag ...
Yes and no.The yes part of the answer is pretty standard; we’ve been covering it in the many many articles we put out on our real estate advice and tips page exposing the complexity of acting as a real estate agent in a housing transaction. There’s a reason why w ...
Not only can homeowners associations impose pet restrictions but almost 100% of them do. Here’s the thing: the job of a homeowners associations or HOA is to look at the big picture and provide a safe and tidy environment for everyone despite one particular resident&rs ...
To understand what is a subprime mortgage, we need to talk about the subprime definition. Subprime means something that is not in the best conditions and, in this scenario, it refers to a subprime borrower; that is someone who has a complicated financial history and provides too ...
The time is here: you decided you will buy a home. Congratulations! But soon after you get motivated to do, conscience kicks in and makes you ask yourself: how much income do I need to buy a house? Well, it will depend first on the location of which this house is located and al ...
When you hear someone referring to a real estate agent type as a “general agent”, it might seem that someone is calling that agent “basic”, common. Right? But the truth is that general agent is a term that can refer to two other different situations and cl ...
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 ...
6 Tips To Better Manage Your Vacation Rental
Do you have a vacation rental? Or do you want to invest in one? Read the following tips to improve your business skills. Wise real estate investments have changed lives for generations. Actually, 45% of real estate investors buy properties with the intent to rent and earn extra money. If you’ve purchased a rental property in an attempt to get rich quickly, you might ...
Innovative Ways To Sell And Buy A House
What do you do when your listed house sits on the market way longer than you anticipated? It’s time to get creative and try some alternative ways to sell your house! According to major listing websites, in 2018, a property spent roughly 68 days on average on the market - a post-recession low. Homes sell twice as fast than in 2010 when 140 days was the average time ...
Why Are There So Many Different Types Of Loans?
Ever since childhood, I have seen the many faces of debt. A big statement, you might think, but my parents’ debt greatly impacted my life. When I look around, however, not everybody talks about debt as a dreadful experience. Why? Because they knew which loan to choose from so many different types of loans. And even if they have a hard time with their payments, they ...
Most Common Homeowners Insurance Claims
Are you in the midst of closing your homeowner’s insurance? Trying to save every little penny figuring all the insurance questions we always ask ourselves? Do I need Flood Insurance? What about earthquake? Is there any end in sight for this eternal money spending?Although we do recommend getting the most comprehensive homeowners insurance you can, let us ...
Benefits Of Owning A Home Vs. Renting
Do you want to make a conversation with your friends more interesting? Start talking about the benefits of owning a home vs. renting one and you will see how many different opinions there are. Everybody will take sides, and at the end of your fight - because it’s very likely it will degenerate - you will still be left wondering what the pros and cons of buying a ...
Questions To Ask When Buying A Condo For The First Time
When my mother bought her first condo, she didn’t listen to anyone, not even to me, her own son. She was all by herself. Three years later, unable to keep up with the payments, she was forced to move out and recovered less money than she’d expected. I was crying inside because I couldn’t help her. Hopefully, you will let me help you avoid the same pain ...
Real Estate Terms Every Home Buyer HAS To Know!
Real Estate can be tricky sometimes. Real Estate Agents use a lot of particular words and jargons that almost make a dialect of its own. And you, the home buyer, who just wants to find the perfect home and acquire it suddenly has to learn all of those weird real estate terms on your own to make sense of whatever the heck those real estate agents are talking about. You ...
Real Estate Terms Every Home Seller HAS To Know
You’ve finally put your house on the market but every word that comes out of the real estate agent and potential buyers (or their real estate agents) seems like a foreign language to you. You just nod and try to stay in the loop reading the emotions from your real estate agent. If you took the For sale By Owner route… yikes! Even worse. You’re ...
Real Estate Agent Salary Vs Commission
From time to time we come up with forecast articles about new disruptive technologies like Self-Driving Cars, Cryptocurrencies, Blockchain and overall trends like the fact that the US Life expectancy is dropping, and the most pessimistic agents start to stock food for the long winter and predict the complete extinction of jobs and total machinery take over. Take it ...