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    How To List Your Home for the Best Price

    By Rozalyn Franklin | February 12, 2019

    How To List Your Home for the Best Price If your plan for 2019 includes selling your home, you will want to pay attention to where experts believe home values are headed. According to the latest Home Price Index from CoreLogic, home prices increased by 4.7% over the course of 2018. The map below shows... Read More

    Thinking of Selling Your South Carolina House? This is a Perfect Time!

    By Rozalyn Franklin | February 11, 2019

    Thinking of Selling Your South Carolina House? This is a Perfect Time! It is common knowledge that a great number of South Carolina homes sell during the spring buying season. For that reason, many homeowners hold off putting their homes on the market until then. The question is whether or not that is a good... Read More

    5 Tips for Building Your New South Carolina Home

    By Rozalyn Franklin | February 8, 2019

    The current lack of existing inventory on the market has forced many homebuyers to begin looking at new construction. Seeing your home built before your eyes is a wonderful experience, but new construction purchases often come with unique hassles. Let’s get together so we can help ensure that your next home-buying experience is hassle-free! Amber... Read More

    Here Come the Drones! Real Estate Photography on the Wing

    By Rozalyn Franklin | February 8, 2019

    The day is not that far away when you’ll hear a tippity tap at the front door and open it to find your friendly neighborhood pizza drone just waiting for you to collect your order (pineapple optional…). After all, it’s already happening in Australia. As it turns out, drones are pretty handy things to have... Read More

    Helping You Prep Your House For Sale

    By Rozalyn Franklin | February 6, 2019

    The KonMari Method: Helping You Prep Your House For Sale One of the biggest challenges sellers face when listing their house is decluttering. Cleaning out some of the more personal decorating choices allows buyers to imagine themselves living in the house. Those planning to sell soon are in luck! Marie Kondo, the inventor of the... Read More

    4 Proven Ways Real Estate Can Build Sizable Family Wealth

    By Rozalyn Franklin | February 5, 2019

    4 Proven Ways Real Estate Can Build Sizable Family Wealth Recently, David Greene, co-host of the BiggerPockets podcast and a nationally renowned author and speaker, wrote an article in Forbes explaining how investing in real estate could help build wealth. Many of the points he made also apply to a family owning their own home.... Read More

    Have You Made Any of These 5 Credit Mistakes As a Homebuyer?

    By Rozalyn Franklin | February 5, 2019

    Have You Made Any of These 5 Credit Mistakes As a Homebuyer? You’ve been renting for a while now and it feels like the timing is right to make the leap to homeownership. After all, your friends are all buying houses and your job feels pretty stable, how many more hints that it’s time to... Read More

    Whose Mortgage Do You Want to Pay? Yours or Your Landlord’s?

    By Rozalyn Franklin | February 4, 2019

    Whose Mortgage Do You Want to Pay? Yours or Your Landlord’s? There are some people who haven’t purchased homes because they are uncomfortable taking on the obligation of a mortgage. However, everyone should realize that unless you are living with your parents rent-free, you are paying a mortgage – either yours or your landlord’s. As... Read More

    The Good, the Bad and the Ugly of Flue Care

    By Rozalyn Franklin | January 31, 2019

    The Good, the Bad and the Ugly of Flue Care For many people in North America, the weather outside is still pretty frightful, but a fire is so delightful. That is, as long as their flues are in good shape. Homeowners, especially in their first home, may not realize how much maintenance a flue requires... Read More

    Do You Know How Much Your South Carolina Home Has Increased in Value?

    By Rozalyn Franklin | January 31, 2019

    Do You Know How Much Your South Carolina Home Has Increased in Value? Last year we saw headlines about a possible housing market bubble, and many wondered if Americans still felt confident about the value of their homes. Recently, the 2018 Houzz & Home Study revealed: “Homeowners with mortgages have seen their home equity more... Read More