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- Market Knowledge
- We are experts with in depth, encyclopedic market knowledge of local areas. Our team will:
1 ) Educate you about the recent comparable sales to your home.
2 ) Help you understand the local market trends.
3 ) Analyze your potential competition.
4 ) Teach you the nuances of timing the market.
- Home Preparation
- Our team specializes in management of preparing your home for sale. We will remove all stress from the process:
1 ) Recommend the most essential updates and repairs that will maximize your home's value.
2 ) Obtain estimates from trusted vendors in our network (including staging).
3 ) Lay out a detailed schedule of all work to be done.
4 ) Coordinate and manage all vendors and pre-sale inspections.
- Marketing
- We offer the strategic marketing plan, designed to feature the highlights of your home and its neighborhood to encourage buyers to visit at open house, or via private showing with their agent. We will:
1 ) Market your home to reach the widest pool of buyers through targeted online campaigns and print advertising.
2 ) Present the finest quality printed adverstising about your home.
3 ) Provide the highest quality architectural photography, video, etc.
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9 Rules for Protecting Your Family When Selling Your Home as a Cop
Selling your home is a stressful endeavor no matter who you are, but when you’re a cop, it can be a little more so. You’re inviting strangers into your home when you aren’t there. Pictures of your family adorn the walls, your weapons are easily available, and your home could be open to criminals you’ve locked up in the past. Make your home more secure by following these easy steps: 1. Take Down Family Photos This has multiple benefits, the least of which isn’t protecting your family from anyone who may recognize you in the photos and then have your address, the layout of your home, and a good idea of what your family looks like. Additionally, it allows any non-nefarious potential buyer to see their own family inside your home, to picture their family hanging on the walls, and really envision themselves living there. Most good real estate agents will tell you to do this anyway, but it’s especially important for LE families. 2. Park the Patrol Car Elsewhere Your squad is a beacon to criminals, and criminals buy houses, too. If you have a take-home you can significantly lower the chances of being burned at home by parking at the precinct or other off-site location and driving in. I know it’s a hassle, but it’s only briefly while you sell. 3. Secure Your Weapons I can’t tell you the number of times I’ve walked into a law enforcement officer’s home when it was listed and seen guns lying out unsecured. This is a huge liability risk for you. Parents bring children to see homes all the time, and one careless moment from a parent or an inattentive agent can mean disaster for not only the family involved but also you, the homeowner. That is definitely one “Dear Chief…’ letter you don’t want to write. Now that was an absolute worst-case scenario, but theft is also a possibility. Securing your weapons in a gun safe is ideal. If you don’t have one, check with a buddy who does to see if you can store some stuff in his, or maybe check with your department to see if you can secure them at work. Whatever you do, don’t leave them lying out on a bedside table, loaded, with one in the pipe. That’s just asking for trouble. 4. Take Down the Hero Wall Police love to put awards, plaques, blue line flags, and memorabilia on the walls of their home. Go ahead and strip that down. It will help keep you from being identified as LE, and it will also help the potential buyers with the visualization stuff I mentioned above. 5. Hide or Remove Your Uniforms Keep your uniforms at work and dress in the locker room if possible. If it’s not, have them ready to grab and go and put them in the car while you vacate the premises for a showing. Your uniform is a plethora of intel for any potential scumbags who enter your home. First, it alerts them to your career, which might trigger them to look for things like weapons, badges, ID cards, etc. It also gives them information like your name, your department, and even the hours you work if your department has differing uniforms of the day based on shift. Another possibility is hanging them in the owner’s closet I mention below. 6. Make Sure Your Badge, Holsters, Duty Belt, and Any ID cards are Secured There are a lot of ways to out yourself and these all count, but these items also represent a dangerous opportunity for theft of extremely sensitive pieces. You definitely don’t want to find yourself tracking down a badge after a day full of house showings. Chalk this one under “Dear Chief…” letters you don’t want to write, too. This one is another candidate for that owner’s closet, which brings me to… 7. Consider an Owner’s Closet Have you ever stayed at a condo rental on the beach? Ever notice that one closet with a lockable doorknob on it? That’s what is traditionally called an owner’s closet. It’s where the owners of the condo store their personal effects so that when they come to stay in their own condo, they don’t have to lug tons of stuff with them. You can make one in your own home quickly and easily by grabbing a lockable doorknob from Home Depot or Lowes. Swap it out for the doorknob on a small coat closet somewhere in your home. Make sure the key is different than the key that opens your exterior doors. Once that is done, you can simply load everything you don’t want out in the open, like gear and uniforms, into that closet, lock it, and you won’t have to worry about it nearly as much. 8. Insist on an Electronic Lockbox An electronic lockbox is accessed by an app on a real estate agent’s phone. Access to the app is tightly controlled by their association or board. It’s not like a mechanical lockbox where a lazy agent can give the code to clients to let themselves in. For this one, the agent has to physically open the box himself or herself. I use a Supra iBox. This particular system connects to the agent’s phone or an electronic key and emails the listing agent the moment it is accessed with the contact information of the person who opened it. This gives us valuable data to know who is going in and out of your home and a pretty solid way to track down any troublemakers should something go wrong. The iBox also has a feature called a Call Before Showing (CBS) Code that requires a specific code the agent accessing the box must get from your listing agent. It adds another step to the process and makes things more difficult, so agents who lack understanding of your security concerns will often disable it, allowing anyone with the app to access your home unannounced. I employ the use of the CBS code on all my occupied listings, and I take special care to ensure it’s active on those iBoxes attached to my highly sensitive clients. Additionally, mechanical lockboxes are very easily defeated, whereas a Supra iBox is not. In fact, the iBox is designed, so that attempts to pry it open result in the carrier inside, which holds the key, folding in on itself and entombing the key. Agents who do not utilize the electronic lockbox system make that choice for many reasons, but the most common I hear is the expense. The Supra iBox isn’t cheap, but it’s a worthwhile investment to protect my clients, in my opinion. Stay away from cheap agents. 9. Make Sure Your Realtor Understands Your Security Concerns Most real estate agents have little or no background in personal security. They do not understand the dangers you (and your family) face as a law enforcement professional. Many would dismiss you as paranoid for asking that these extra security precautions be put in place. Some might even innocently out you by putting into publicly viewable remarks that the house belongs to a law enforcement officer, hoping to attract people who realize that you probably take really good care of your stuff and have no idea how much of a target that makes your home. I highly recommend you hire a real estate agent like me, who comes from your world. I spent 12 years on the job, so I get it. I would love to interview for the role of your real estate agent in the Valley, and if we aren’t a good fit, I know several other realtors in the area with law enforcement experience to whom I can introduce you. Please reach out if I can help you in any way.
Why You Need an Expert on VA Loans
There is a pervasive problem in the real estate industry with regards to VA Loans. Many real estate agents just don’t understand them, and people fear what they do not understand. I know many agents, and I interact with thousands of them online. Every day, I see them talk negatively about VA Loans. Why? Mostly urban myths. Real estate agents often believe common misconceptions about VA Loans which they believe make them harder to close than others. It’s often thought that VA appraisals result in lower values for the home, or they carry ridiculous property condition requirements. It can be quite discouraging for someone looking for a new home if they are working with an agent who doesn’t understand the VA requirements for a property. Hiring an agent who is well-versed in the VA loan product and who can introduce you to an experienced VA lender is extremely important. An agent experienced with VA loans can find potential issues on houses before you even make an offer. Your agent and loan officer can work together to educate a listing agent and help them understand the loan product to greatly increase the chances that your offer can be competitive. Personally, I’ve made helping buyers with VA Loans a large part of my business. It’s a natural fit since most of my clients are first responders and veterans. The experience I’ve gleaned over the years has allowed me to help VA buyers win against other loan products by educating the listing agent on the truth about how VA loans work. If you need help or have questions about the process in the Valley, please contact me. I’m here for you.
7 Ways You Hold Yourself Back
Your talents and skillsets are a part of what will make you successful for sure. But, the truest judge of your potential is your MINDSET. People build roadblocks along their thought highways, and those roadblocks set subconscious limitations. If you get too close to one, your brain kicks into hyperdrive, reciting all the ways you can fail. It screams at you to go another, safer way. These mental roadblocks are just enough to turn away most people and get them back in line with the status quo of what is expected of them. They remain prisoners of the perceptions of others and themselves.The first step to breaking through these roadblocks is recognizing them and the challenges they pose for you. These mental roadblocks are insidiously built. You are brainwashed by your surroundings beginning at an early age to believe certain limitations about yourself. They become so ingrained into our very fabric that we don’t even question them. The little voice in your head telling you that you aren’t smart enough, skilled enough, or even worthy of success begins early in life as snide, sometimes well-meaning, but always harmful comments from teachers, coworkers, and yes, even friends and family. Those words proliferate into a belief system you have about yourself that puts limits on your abilities, at least in your mind. To conquer them, you must recognize them and how to retrain your brain to drive straight through them. Learn to recognize these 7 ways YOU hold yourself back: 1. Your self-doubt prevents you from taking action. American writer Suzy Kassem once said, “Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will.” I believe that wholeheartedly. It is one of the most formative statements on my philosophy for living life. When I overcame my self-doubt, I was truly set free.Let me ask you, when the last time you met a successful person who told you what they couldn’t do was? I don’t know that I’ve ever seen or heard someone I truly considered successful put limits on themselves. In truth, most of them seem to OVERESTIMATE their abilities and then rise to the occasion. Shake off your doubts and dare to believe that you can be successful. You’ll ultimately prove yourself right. 2. You refuse to let others help you. Life is a team sport. The sooner you realize that the better off you will be. This was one area I struggled with for a long time. I convinced myself that asking for help made me look weak, so I never did it. In fact, to my detriment, I often let things get way out of hand when a simple request of a friend would’ve solved the problem.I’ll let you in on a secret. People WANT to help you, especially those who already know, like, and trust you. People generally enjoy doing things for others. I believe it is encoded deep into our DNA, a throwback to when we could not survive without helping each other. I know it seems like successful people have it all together and don’t need help. But, truly successful people have learned to leverage the help of others to maximize their effectiveness.If you want to truly be successful, get help! There are plenty of people out there willing and able. And, like Tim McGraw sings, “When you get where you’re going, don’t forget, turn back around, and help the next one in line.” 3. You think you lack the necessary education. Look, unless you’re going to be a rocket scientist or a cardiothoracic surgeon, formal education is probably not necessary to be successful. I’ve already told you your mindset is an essential part of success. You’ve been educated your entire life by your experiences. I learned how to sell talking drunk guys into handcuffs without violence. Those experiences were way more educational for me than four years of college would ever be.The percentage of highly successful people who dropped out of high school or college is staggering. Let’s look at a few. Have you ever heard of Steve Jobs? Dropped out of college. Mark Zuckerberg? Dropped out of college. Rachel Ray? She never had ANY formal culinary arts education. Dave Thomas (founder of Wendy’s)? Never finished high school. The list goes on and on and on. Do not let your lack of education hold you back. Learn what you need to learn to achieve your goals. The Library of Alexandria, in ancient times, the most extensive collection of knowledge in a single place, contained roughly 400,000 scrolls. Today, the phone in your pocket contains the entirety of human knowledge. You can literally learn almost anything you need to from the palm of your hand! 4. You think your competitors are better than you are. It is a natural tendency to focus on the success of others and see their strengths. Especially if you are, consciously or subconsciously, trying to undermine your own. While we tend to underestimate ourselves, we also tend to overestimate our competition. Your “competition” is probably getting more credit from you than they deserve, even if they really are good.Remember, winners focus on winning. Losers focus on winners. Put your head down and do the work necessary to reach your goals. You might just beat your competition to the finish line. 5. You lack the belief that your goals are reachable. The most significant failures don’t come from aiming too high and missing. They come from aiming too low and hitting. Set lofty goals. Unreasonable ones. Impossible ones. Why? Because if you dare to chase impossible dreams, you might just surprise yourself. Your shoot-for-the-moon goals shouldn’t be your only ones, mind you. You should have some “normal” goals, too, so that you get the psychological benefit of reaching them. But do not let anyone tie a rock to your balloon. Nothing is stopping you from reaching the highest highs, and anyone who tells you differently is an energy vampire unworthy of being in your life. 6. You’re afraid to confront the reality of who you are. When you put yourself out there, you will discover your shortcomings. It’s not a matter of if but when. Everyone has those, though. I have plenty, for sure. Certainly, you do too.If you sit on the bench, it’s easy to mask your deficiencies. However, when you are in the arena where the crowd can see, those shortcomings will come out. Are you afraid everyone else will see? Are you afraid you will? So what? I’ve failed more times than I can count. I can tell you from experience that people only remember the things I’ve done that found success, but I could fill volumes of bad ideas and failed ventures.What if you do have what it takes to be successful? How will you know if you don’t give it your best shot? So what if you fail? Fail again. And again. And again. And then succeed. The success is all they will remember anyway. 7. You believe that you don’t have time. Repeat after me: “I have time, but it is just not a priority for me.” That’s what you’re really saying whenever you claim you don’t have time. A lack of time is a convenient excuse for people who lack commitment. Do you lack commitment? Is your goal a priority? Then stop making excuses and make it happen!You control your thoughts, and your thoughts control you. So, change your thoughts to change your life. Destroy these mental roadblocks. Conquer your self-doubts, allow others to help you, learn what you need to learn, stop focusing on your competition, believe you can achieve your goals, confront who you are, and MAKE TIME FOR YOUR DREAMS! You CAN do it!
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Chris Fisher
Real Estate Consultant | License ID: SA660964000
Real Estate Consultant License ID: SA660964000