You have just one chance to make a great first impression to your potential buyer, and a neat and tidy front-yard landscape makes sure they’ll be impressed. The National Association of Realtors says that 63% of buyers will do a drive-by to see a home after they’ve looked at it online. When they do, you’ll […]
Looking For A Good Probate Agent?
So you’re an attorney with a client who wants to sell a piece of real estate that is in or about to go into probate or is a standard Trust sale. Their costs are mounting and your headaches are growing. You’ve referred the probate sale to the neighborhood agent or someone you met who assures […]
Why Your Home Isn’t Getting Shown As Much As You Think It Should
Picture having your house for sale, and you feel like it isn’t being shown enough. Or maybe it isn’t really being shown at all. You expected lots of buyers coming through. Ideally, you even expected an offer (or multiple offers!) to come in pretty quickly. But instead, not that many people seem to even know […]
How to Avoid the Pain of Selling Probate Property
The two main areas of pain people experience when they are left to deal with a home in probate is the emotional and relational strain it puts on the family and the financial strain it puts on the Administrator and the family. There is one simple solution to these challenges but I’m afraid that if […]
PROTECT SENIORS FROM GETTING TAKEN ADVANTAGE OF WHEN SELLING A HOME
It happens too frequently. A senior or their family are found in a position where they need to sell the family home but because it is disrepair or has not been updated in a very long time, they give the home equity away by accepting one of those “We Buy Homes For Cash” guys who […]
Probate valuation turns up tribal treasure in Southsea – Christian Davies Antiques (blog)
Probate valuation turns up tribal treasure in SouthseaChristian Davies Antiques (blog)Antiques auctioneer Martin Lawrence was expecting nothing more than a long drive when Jacobs & Hunt asked him to do a probate valuation on a dilapidated top floor…
Open Question: I have a question about doing Probate myself. I am assisting my mother fill in the Probate and Inheritance Tax?
Forms. The Estate consists of residential house held as “Tenants in Common” passing to my mother via the Will, 50% share each. All the Forms are almost completed, but recently I read on the Internet that when doing Probate onself one should seek lega…
Open Question: What websites can you obtain wills from?
I am looking for my Granddads probate and will. The site i am currently using, ancestry.co.uk , has not got either on there. I was wondering if anyone who knows any websites from where i could obtain this information from can tell me. I would prefer …
Open Question: Probate and inheritance question.?
I am on the account of a relative who is currently terminally ill and elderly but i am married, I also have power of attorney for this person. When this person passes and the money is now just in my name. If I was to divorce, would my husband be enti…
Open Question: Do I need to sell my father’s home to pay his credit card debits since the house is in such poor repair?
My father passed away last month and his will is in probate. I am the only heir. He has a bit of unsecured credit card debit (approx 15,000). My mother passed away years ago. My father was the only person allowed to use his credit cards. Do I need to…
