Massachusetts Home Seller

Three Simple Tips to Prepare Your Home to Sell

As the spring market starts to heat up, home sellers are getting their homes ready to enter the real estate market. There are three simple tips to prepare your home to sell. While your home may benefit from some costlier repairs, not every home seller can spend a lot of money preparing there home for the real estate market. But, there are three simple, no cost our low cost solutions that a home seller can do to prepare their home. First impression are very important with most things in life. … Continue reading...

EXIT’s own Kevin Vitali speaks on Real Estate Photography

Kevin Vitali, an associate broker at EXIT Group One Real Estate in Tewksbury, spoke to a group of to a group of EXIT agents at the Eastern Middlesex Association of Realtors in Reading Massachusetts. Check out my new Real Estate Photography post on Active Rain Kevin spoke on real estate photography as a marketing tool for listing and selling homes. One of the major points brought up by Kevin is home sellers need to remember their first showing is on line. Home buyers are no longer reliant … Continue reading...

Why Didn’t My Listing Agent………Take better Photos!!

Because of my background in advertising and commercial photography, I put a heavy emphasis on the quality of the photographs we take to market your home on the internet and printed flyers. I have over $2500 in photographic equipment I use to photograph a home and will spend two to three hours photographing you home. One of my rules that I try to follow is that the front of the home has full sunlight on the front and blue sky in the background. I will go back until I can achieve this if … Continue reading...

The Strategic Short Sale

With almost 23% of the homes in a negative equity position nationwide, it leaves many homeowners that are not in a financial hardship wondering why they are paying on a home that is worth significantly less money than what is owed on it. Some homeowners are deciding to walk away from their homes. When a homeowner makes a decision to stop paying their mortgage without a financial hardship and let the bank foreclose or do a strategic short sale, this is called a strategic … Continue reading...

Price to sell or Pay the Price Later

Pricing your home properly is the single most important aspect of selling your home. It is important to price your house to sell. No amount of marketing in the world will sell an overpriced home. It is very important to know what the Fair Market Value (FMV) of your home is for that period of time. Fair Market Value is dynamic and always moving. FMV of your home 4 years ago was much different than it is today. Fair Market Value is the price agreed upon and in which the money and property … Continue reading...

Can your photography make or break you?

Real Estate Photography- marketing your home

I have posted several real estate photography articles in the past. I think it is important for sellers to look at their listing agents photography and ask themselves two questions: Is the listing agent taking high quality photographs? or Is the listing agent hiring a professional to take photographs? The marketing of real estate has changed drastically over the past 10 years with the internet becoming the primary way buyers are discovering properties. Buyers are no longer as … Continue reading...

Kevin Vitali- Massachusetts REALTOR

About Kevin Vitali- Your Massachusetts Real Estate Agent I have been a full time Massachusetts Real Estate Agent. My entire real estate career has been with EXIT Realty since 2002. With 100's and 100's of real estate closings behind me, I have the experience to help you with your next purchase or sale.. Prior to becoming a Massachusetts Real Estate Agent, I opened, owned and operated, Beyond Bagels in North Reading Massachusetts. The business was built and successfully sold in … Continue reading...