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June 28, 2015

Five Tips for Finding Your Ideal Myrtle Beach Real Estate Agent

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A few of Myrtle Beach's professionals operate as one-person enterprises, but that’s unusual. Even a one-doctor medical practice has back-up staff. Most lawyers, even if they aren’t in a partnership arrangement, have …

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June 27, 2015

Myrtle Beach Mortgage Rates on the Rise? Bellwether Signals Clues

6-17-mortgageratesIf you’ve ever had the kind of neighbor who is apt to borrow something (like your hedge trimmer), only to later complain about how it performed, you know how much patience it takes to hold your tongue. The Mortgage Bankers Association would be justified if they felt that way about …

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June 24, 2015

Taking the Fizz out of FSBO: Selling a Myrtle Beach Home Yourself

6-17-fsboYou pronounce it “FIZZ-bow.”

That’s FSBO: For Sale by Owner, and it’s the Road Less Travelled by area homeowners bent on selling a home in Myrtle Beach as economically as possible. It does seem to make common sense, after all. It’s the homeowner who knows the ins and outs …

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June 22, 2015

Worth Tallying: a New Myrtle Beach Home’s ‘True Affordability’

6-10-calculationsYou want your approach to finding a new home in Myrtle Beach to be at least somewhat hard-headed and businesslike. The financial stakes are certainly major, and to some extent, much of what your future lifestyle will be like will depend on making a good choice.

This is not …

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June 21, 2015

Myrtle Beach Location Location Location is More than a Catch Phrase

6-10-location“There’s No Place like Home” is one of those quaint sayings that somehow lasts forever, probably just because it’s so true. “Home is Where the Heart Is” is another one: corny, maybe, but undeniable.

There’s a strictly real estate saying that Myrtle Beach residents will recognize at once, too. …

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June 20, 2015

Pet Lovers’ Concerns Impact Myrtle Beach Real Estate Activity

6-10-petsMyrtle Beach residents don’t have to be pet owners to get a sense of just how nutty Americans are about our animals. Just a few minutes of watching TV will do it. After you’ve been bombarded with the images of happy/sad/exuberant/listless cats and dogs who are saved/rewarded by the pet …

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June 17, 2015

Budget-Wise Improvements add to a Myrtle Beach Home’s Eye-Appeal

6-10-homeimprovementWhen it comes to boosting your Myrtle Beach home’s value, the question arises about which of the possible improvements that you might undertake would wind up paying for themselves. At first blush, you might think this should be a cut-and-dried analysis­—that is, any improvements that don’t at least add their …

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June 15, 2015

When Career Upheaval Results in a Relocation Scramble…

6-3-relocationRemember the good old days, when most people could depend on staying in the same job in the same community for an entire career? Okay; the truth is, I don’t actually remember any time like that—but I do remember watching TV shows about it... The truth is, as with so …

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June 13, 2015

Selling your Myrtle Beach Home…in the Distant Future!

6-3-sellingThis is actually a situation that’s very common, but not much remarked upon: you know you are going to be selling your Myrtle Beach home—only not for a while…and perhaps not for a very long while! Is there anything you should be doing now, long before actual preparations are called …

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June 11, 2015

Questions to get the Most from Myrtle Beach Realtor® Interviews

6-3-realtorEveryone agrees that getting the right Myrtle Beach Realtor® for your team is vital when you’re buying or selling a home­­. Defining ‘right’ isn’t hard, either: for some of us, that will be a Realtor with the kind of dynamic sales personality that seems to make obstacles just disappear; for …

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