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Buyers, beware of making lowball offers

DEAR DAVID: We’ve been on the market for 3 months and have dropped our asking price a couple of times. We just got a really low offer and don’t want to sign it back. What do you think? – DISHEARTENED DEAR DISHEARTENED: The year 2022 will undoubtedly go down in real estate history as a

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Why would an agent let a client overprice their home?

Dear David, Why would an agent allow a seller to overprice their home? – SEEMS ODD DEAR SEEMS: Throughout the history of real estate and regardless of market conditions, there are always homes that hit the market with an inflated price tag. Whether it’s a buyer’s market, seller’s market or conditions are balanced, some sellers

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Cottaging while the house is for sale

Dear David, We put our house in on the market and promptly escaped to the cottage. There’s no one at home to do the gardening while showings are taking place. Is it a big deal if our flower beds have some weeds? – GREEN THUMB GETAWAY DEAR GETAWAY: Having your house on the market is

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We bought high. Now prices are going down

Dear David, We bought a house in February, then sold our existing home a week later. The purchase was made in a bidding war because we wanted to be in a specific school zone. Now we see homes sitting on the market and prices going down. We are absolutely sick about it. Did we make

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The market is changing, is it still a good time to buy?

Dear David, I’m a first-time homebuyer. Do the recent changes in the market make this a good time to buy? – HOUSE HUNTING DEAR HOUSE HUNTING: That’s the million-dollar question. People have been trying to time the real estate market since we first moved out of caves. It’s easy to look back and see what

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