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6 Things To Get Your House Ready For A Sale In Cape Cod

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You thought long and hard about moving. You know it’s a stressful situation between preparing the house for viewing, packing, and making the home available for showings. Now that you have made the decision to move, it cannot happen fast enough. That is why you should do these six things to get your Cape Cod … Continued

Property Taxes: A Guide for Cape Cod Buyers and Sellers

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Taxes are, as you know, one of those two irksome but inevitable things in life. And included among the inevitable taxes are property taxes. It’s just that with these taxes, many of us don’t know as much about them as we should or could. For example, how are property taxes calculated, who pays them in … Continued

Buying a Home on Cape Cod? Here’s Where to Start

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Buying a home can be more than a little challenging. In fact, the process can be downright confusing and overwhelming, especially for first-time buyers. The chief source of home-buying anxiety is a result of knowing that it is the largest financial transaction of your life – you don’t want to make an enormously expensive blunder. … Continued

How to Prepare to Buy and Sell a Cape Cod Home Over Summer Break

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Traditionally, the spring and summer months are when both buyers and sellers come out of the woodwork, and things can begin to move at a dizzying pace. To get things sorted out and stop them from becoming overwhelming, let’s cover how to prepare to buy and sell a Cape Cod home over summer break. Budget … Continued

What Cape Cod Home Buyers Need to Know About Contingency Offers

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Contingency offers are common in real estate transactions, most often as protection for buyers in certain situations. With a contingency, finalizing the transaction depends on the fulfillment of other conditions or other events taking place. A contingency offer can certainly offer you protection as a buyer, but it can also create problems. Read on to … Continued

4 Home Appraisal Stories You Need to Stop Believing in Massachusetts

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Whether you are a home buyer or seller, an appraisal is a key part of the whole process. And in many cases, a real estate valuation, an appraisal, seems to be purely arbitrary and overly complicated. Fundamentally, though, an appraisal is data-driven: it is simply an opinion about a home’s value derived from similar-housing data … Continued

4 Things You Need to Expect When Selling With an Agent

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Are you working with a local Cape Cod agent to sell your house? Or maybe you’re thinking about it? If so, we’ve collected the top 4 things you need to expect when selling with an agent — to help you navigate this process easily! There are many ways to sell your house and many people … Continued