6 Ways To Handle A Low Appraisal
Last week, we demystified the near-final step in buying or selling a home: the dreaded appraisal. If all goes according to plan, the appraisal goes off without a hitch and it’s closing time, baby! But sometimes – often, if we’re being honest – hitches happen. And really, when you’re looking to buy or sell a […]
11 Inexpensive Ways To Make Your Home Energy Efficient This Summer
The housing market isn’t the only thing that’s white-hot lately. In fact, if you step outside for a few seconds, you’ll be convinced you’re standing on the surface of the sun – and it’s not even summer yet! Thankfully, most of us spend the majority of our days inside seeking refuge from the unmerciful heat […]
Thinking Of Selling Your Home? Here Are 4 Reasons To Sell In 2019
Listen. We aren’t trying to strongarm you with that headline. Because if you bought your house in the last few years or still love it and aren’t ready to sell, absolutely don’t. You can easily wait another few years before considering selling without any consequences. But – big but – if you’ve considered selling recently, […]
10 Budget-Friendly Tips for Increasing Your Home’s Value
Leave it to HGTV – again – to lure us in with an impossibly tempting article about increasing your home’s value. But what’s better than a nice, neat listicle about improving your home’s value? A LISTICLE ON A BUDGET! Here, we’ve shared their best practices for increasing your home’s value for $200 or less but […]
Small Home Improvements, Big Returns
We’re often asked about what ‘smaller’ home improvements yield the biggest returns so here, HGTV has put together a mind-blowingly comprehensive list sure to get your creative juices flowing – and your weekend-warrior motor humming. Bathroom Facelift Average return: 102 percent What it costs: $10,500 What it includes: Replace or reglaze the tub Replace tile, […]
Tampa Ranks No. 12 on 2019 Top-100 Best Places to Live
Color us (un-)surprised but once again, Tampa has made the top – No. 12, to be exact – of yet another list about the best places to live in the U.S. Again. Other Florida cities ranked, too, with Orlando at No. 17, Clearwater at No. 44, Tallahassee at No. 58, West Palm Beach at No. […]
5 Things Home Sellers Should Never Say
5 Things Home Sellers Should Never Say As we mentioned previously, buying or selling a home is much like your Miranda Rights: anything you say can – and will – be used against you. And while there are some things you legally have to disclose to buyers – such as paranormal activity (yes, seriously) or […]
6 Things Home Buyers Should Never Say
Listen. We get it: Buying a home is exciting, whether it’s your first time or your tenth. But as your trusted real estate partner, we have to be perfectly honest here: There are certain things you should avoid saying when house-hunting. Because just like your Miranda Rights state, anything you say can – and will […]
BREAKING: Experts Predict Tampa Bay’s 2019 Real Estate Market
By now, you may have seen this piece of local real estate literary gold from Susan Taylor Martin at the Tampa Bay Times making its rounds – and fast. But if you haven’t – or if you’d prefer the abridged version – we’ve collected some of the piece’s most impactful expert predictions, forecasts and opinions […]
Best of the Blog: DeLeon Sheffield Company 2018
It’s been alleged that a year is 365 days long. But we can’t say that we’re convinced. Because we’re pretty confident that this year lasted a total of four minutes. Maybe five, tops. So in case you blinked and missed some of our best blogs this year – or just blinked and missed 2018 like […]
6 Tips To Sell Your Home During The Holidays
For many veteran real estate agents, selling a house during the holidays is to be avoided at all costs. What, with everyone being so overscheduled with parties and family and winter being painfully uninviting, sellers have historically been advised to wait until spring. But news flash: This is Florida, and ‘winter’ doesn’t really exist. So […]
New Year’s 2018: Where To Celebrate In Tampa Bay
Once again, the Tampa Bay Times comes through with yet another exhaustive list of all the ways to ring in the new year in Tampa Bay. From parties to art to sporting events and concerts, there’s somewhere for everyone to count down the last 10 seconds of 2018. NYE 2018 The waterfront venue’s 20th annual […]
