There’s nothing quite like buying a home. Thanks to the inevitable mix of excitement and anxiety, it can often seem like an unnecessarily long process. After finding the home, making an offer and going through the home inspection process, you can almost feel the key in your hand. But before closing on a home, there is the extremely important final walk-through.
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One of the biggest and most exciting parts of buying a home or property is the negotiation process. It’s strategic, bold and a bit of a game because thousands of dollars are at stake. There’s a definite art to negotiating, and unfortunately, being polite Midwesterners who don’t want to offend or hurt anyone’s feelings, Iowans are not always the best at it.
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There’s a season for everything. Football fans wait for the first cool breeze of fall to signal the beginning of the season, while skiers anxiously check snow reports. For those who are looking to buy a house, summer is the home-buying season. This is when the housing inventory is high and moving is easiest.
Each year the real estate market is a little bit different from the previous year. ...