Broker’s Tour.

What to Preview in Northfield - Macedonia - Sagamore Hills 01/26/2010.

It was a lively discussion on necessity to preview homes for the clients of Real Estate agents in the comments to our post at ClevelandRealtyBlog.

Real Estate Agent’s Tool Kit: How to Show the Houses To Home Buyers Circa 2010.

For those Realtors who believe in diligency of previewing homes for their buyers, there is an excellent opportunity to do it at one time, with a pleasure to meet other agents, grab some food and have a fun. This opportunity’s name is Broker’s Tour. Or Broker’s Open House. Or Office Caravan.

Local-n-Global Realty will hold a Broker’s Open at our new listing at 794 Lost Creek Ln. Northfiled, OH 44067 this Tuesday, 01/26/2010 between 11:30 am and 1:30 pm.

I want to remind that there are few Broker’s Opens scheduled by different agents tomorrow, 01/26/2010 in 44067 Zip code area, which covers Northfield - Macedonia - Sagamore Hills.

Please be our guests and plan the trip. Don’t miss an opportunity to tour our listing - a wonderful home in Brandywine Preserve priced below initial construction cost!  See all the upgrades this home has to offer!  Better and less expensive than new, this is a home your buyer will love! Plus - tasty food, hot coffee or tea, and pleasure to meet with colleagues. Welcome!

Cleveland Real Estate Search: We Make It Easier For You

Winters in Cleveland OH may be real nasty. Usually it’s not the best time of the year for home buyers and their agents: days are shorter, showing time is limited, heavy snow, clogged driveways in unoccupied houses, limited inventory of the houses and condominiums - what else?

Maybe, it’s time to forget about all negativity and look at the same situation from the different perspective?

• Only serious sellers and buyers are on the market
• Less competition among the buyers
• More competitive prices
• Still very low interest rates
• Home buyers tax credit - up to $8,000 for First time home buyers or up to $6,500 for existing home owners.

For convenience of Cleveland home buyers, we in Local-n-Global Realty started a new program: Cleveland Real Estate Search - We Make it Easier.

• We offer specially designed MLS search for those who look for the homes in Solon School district.

• We have a specifically designed search for home buyers who are looking for the house or condo in Orange School District.
• For Real Estate investors - specific search: Cleveland / University /Shaker Heights investment opportunities

If you need more specific searches, please let us know. As usually, we can be reached at 877-770-5551. Call us anytime.
E-mail us: Realty@Local-n-Global.com.

Time to Buy in Cleveland 2009 Networking Event

Cleveland, OH – NorthStar Title Services, LLC, is proud to announce that it is joining Svetlana Stolyarova from Local-n-Global Realty to sponsor a real estate industry professional networking event on Wednesday, September 16, 2009, from 5:30 PM to 8:30 PM at The Sherwin-Gilmour Party Center located at 5947 Mayfield Road, Mayfield Heights, OH 44124.

This is an opportunity to show customers the huge network of people that work for them in buying or selling their homes.

Come meet other real estate industry professionals and direct questions your clients may have to the experts!

The event is open to Realtors(R), attorneys, mortgage brokers, lenders, home stagers, title professionals, land surveyors, homeowners’ insurance agents, home warranty agents and customers!

The event will feature various speakers from the industry including Mary Porter (NorthStar Title Services), Angela LoBue (NorthStar Title Services), Khash Saghafi (Crosscountry Mortgage) and David Streeter (Statewide Title Agency).

To RSVP, please contact Svetlana Stolyarova of Local-n-Global Realty at 216-548-4663, register online at Local-n-Global.com or just use the form below.

Many desirable properties in Greater Cleveland  are receiving multiple offers.

That’s already not the news on Greater Cleveland Real Estate market that 2009 has already become a year of multiple offers. Which means: That’s a great news guys! We really have a good buyers’ activity. Houses sell, we, the Realtors®, are busy. Are we all excited about this? Yes and No.

First of all, Greater Cleveland Real Estate market is not hot everywhere and for everyone. You can still see a lot of properties sitting on the market with no offers and even no showings. Unfrotunately, in many cases even the price is not an issue.

Price itself does not sell the houses and condos on today’s Real Estate market in Cleveland. Your Real Estate agent should go extra miles and provide exceptional marketing in order to attract the right buyers.

However many buyers are still under a wrong impression that it’s a buyer’s market and the sellers shouls accept any offer, even it’s an absolutely shameless one.

If you are looking for a well kept, nicely upgraded home in Solon or house in Mayfield Heights built after 2000, please get perpared to act  fast and pretty aggressively in order to win a bidding war. The good news for the buyers is that the prices are still very reasonable, interest rates are still low, and home buyers who did not own the primary residence during last three years, are still have a chance to get $8,000 First Time Home Buyers Tax Credit.

Although it’s true that in many cases the best and the most attractive deals are bank owned homes, privately owned homes may be very good and priced competitevely. Dear Buyers! Please do not assume that only foreclosures offer the best opportunities for savvy home buyer on today’s market. Look at all opportunities. Hire the experienced, result-oriented local Real estate professional, get yourself and your finances prepared and buy this dream home for you and your family!

What is the best way to make sure my offer is accepted?

• Get prepared! You should be financially strong in order to buy the house you like. Fact is that in many cases cash buyers win even if their bid is not the highest one. If you pay cash for your new home, please be prepared to show the proof of funds sufficient to make a purchase and pay closing costs.
  Not enough cash? Get pre-approved by respectable lender. Pre-approval means that loan officer runs three credit reports. You should base your income information on last 2 years tax returns and W-2s; last 2 paystubs. Source of down payment and asset information should be proved by two months bank statements, 401K (stocks, bonds, etc.) statements. Your bankers will advice you on what copies of what exact documents they want to see in order to approve your application. Make sure to clarify your citizenship, or visa and residency status and show your driver’s license at application.

• Offer with house sale contingency in most cases will not win. Sell your current home first or buy the new one ONLY if you do not depend financially on the sale of your current residence.

• Do your home work and know your limits. You should know your market very well in order to offer the right price.

• In most cases in multiple offer situation seller will ask all the bidders for the best and highest offer. However, not all the sellers do this. Some of them will not give this chance to everyone and just start working with the buyer who made the best offer at the beginning. If you are aware of the multiple offer situation, please make your strongest offer and you get a higher chance to win.

• Be reasonable! Do your due diligence. Do not assume that you win if you waive your right to inspect the property. Even when you purchase a REO (bank owned) home, you are eligible for all necessary inspections. Do not forget to ask the seller to complete the Point of Sale inspection if this is the case in the city where you buy a new home. If the Violation report is not available at the moment when you make an offer, please do not forget to include the POS contingency in your offer. However do not overload your offer with unnecessary contingencies.

• Ask your Real estate professional to accompany your offer with a written presentation of your strength, ability and desire to buy this property. I am sure you work with the right, trusted Real estate agent who knows how to negotiate on your behalf in the multiple offer situation.

And finally - always stay cool, reasonable and alert. If it’s a great home for a great price, act fast. There are few other ready, willing and able buyers on the market who may like the same house as you like. So, if you know that the asking price is good and you are ready to pay the full price, just offer it immediately and you can win only by acting fast.

Good luck!

If you need more detailed advice, please do not hesitate to contact me at 24/7 Real estate Hotline 877-770-5551 or call me directly at 216-548-4663 during the business hours.

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December is one of my favorite months of the year. No matter how bad may Lake Erie affect the weather in Greater Cleveland, Holiday spirit prevails.

December is important for Real estate professionals as we finalize our business plans and work hard on our tuning marketing and sales strategies for the next year.

2008 was definitely the year of Web.2.0. marketing. Many smart REALTORs utilize  power of blogging, social media, Search Engine Optimization for promortion of our services and listings.

Dear Sellers of Real Estate in Greater Cleveland! Please make sure that your agents use as many avenues for exposure of your house information on the Internet as possible! Buyers today not only start house hunting on the Internet, they do a lot of research, evaluate the house values and trends,look for the community information, etc., etc. Why don’t your REALTORs be the first to provide this info to potential buyers. Why don’t your agents expose your house and its features and benefits to potential buyers everywhere?

Here is the extract from my listing marketing strategies for 2009:

• Keep Showcasing my listings at Realtor.com
• Create web sites for each of my listings
• Keep working on Search Enging Optimization of www.Local-n-Global.com
• Create mini-sites for all my listings
• Create VFlyers for all my listings
• Create and submit to YouTube video for each of my listings
• Keep blogging at my Localism blog
• Keep posting community info at this blog
• Keep submitting info about my listings to Craigslist, Zillow, Trulia, Backpage, OOdle, Facebook, Linkedin, Digg, etc.
• More, and more, and more…

Will my sellrs benefit from this activity? Sure they will as the do now.

• Potential buyers will not miss your home
• Inquiries from potential buyers increase with every post
• Buyers feel more welcome to see the house and to make an offer
• House sells!

Dear sellers of houses in Solon, Pepper Pike, Twinsburg, Mayfield, Lyndhurst and other neighborhoods of Greater Cleveland!

If you really need to sell your property, please demand active and aggressive marketing of your property on Web! Responsible professional REALTORs have all necessary tools today to promote your house and to find the perfect buyer for your property.

Good luck!

Need to Sell or Buy in Greater Cleveland?

Please e-mail Realty@Local-n-Global.com or just call directly  Svetlana Stolyarova, broker of Local-n-Global Realty: 216-548-4663. Our 24/7 Real Estate Information Hotline number is    

 877-770-5551.

Look at the condominium market in Richmond Heights: all these nice looking, well maintained, nicely updated condos are offered today in October of 2008 for the price of 1999.

Isn’t it an advantage for the buyers to utilize the amazing spin of Real Estate Time Machine and get into a very pleasant place to live?

Just compare:

Year 1999.

• President - Bill Clinton.
• Gas price - avg. $.99/ gallon.
• 3 beds 2 1/2 baths condo in Richmond Place - sold for $110,000; $118,000; $124,600; $128,500; $126,000.

Year 2008. 

• President - still George W Bush
• Gas price - avg. $3.29 / gallon
• 3 beds 2 1/2 baths condo in Richmond Place - offered for $125,000!

Feel the difference? Gas prices are higher, new President is coming soon, 3 beds 2/12 baths condo is much better updated, yet offered for the same price of $125,000. Updates include but not limited to:

newer windows, hot water tank, flooring, vanities in all bathrooms, freshly painted, furnace updated, kitchen appliances replaced and stay.

Please call Svetlana Stolyarova 216-548-4663 or use our 24/7 Hotline 877-770-5551 ext.133 to see this property.  

Don’t wait for Real Estate Time Machine to spin back to 2003 or 2005! Buy today!

People who used to live in apartments have so many excuses for not buying their own place. Sometimes I agree with them. Sometimes I even support their decision. However, it comes the day when you realize how much was paid for the other person’s property within last 15 years - and nothing was saved for your own. 

For those who like the community spirit of apartment-like living, here is a very good alternative to renting - you may buy your own condo in Golden Gate Villas of Mayfield Heights. Local-n-Global Realty presents a very well prepared, updated, beautifully decorated two bedrooms, one and a half totally redone bathrooms unit located on the second floor of the building next to the swimming pool.

This unit has one car garage, extra storage on the floor. Maintenance fee includes gas, heat, water, sewer, common property maintenance, swimming pool, landscaping, snow removal. You may call any time for more info 877-770-5551 x 129.

Why wait?

Call Svetlana today to schedule your private tour : 216-548-4663.

Need to sell or buy in Greater Cleveland? Call 216-548-4663 or e-mail us: Realty@Local-n-Global.com.

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You may be interested in Mayfield Heights condominium sales statistics.

Condominiums became a hot topic again. Hot in a wrong way. First of all, here in Greater Cleveland it’s never been a huge demand for condos. We always had a small but stable pool of buyers who wanted all the advantages of condominium maintenance-free lifestyle. We discussed it recently in my Active Rain blog.

Last two years became much worse for condominium owners who needed to sell their place. Statistics is very sad for Greater Cleveland condominium sales. According to Realist.com there is a big decline in condo sales in 2008 even in comparison with a bad 2007.

What should people who own the condo and need to sell it now do? Is there any way to sell the condo quickly and for a reasonable price?

First of all, don’t panic. Make your own investigation and hire the professional who is known as the best marketer in your area. Extensive, targeted, aggressive marketing performed by a qualified professional is the only way to sell your condo today.

Sale by price only is a bad idea. Today when the honest, responsible owners compete with the banks who massively dump the prices on their repossessed properties, price itself does not make a deal. Only combination of reasonable pricing with very well planned marketing sells the condos today.

I know what I am talking about: it took a lot of efforts and investment from both me and my clients to sell the first and the only within last 24 months unit in The Preserves of Willoughby . Our 55 points marketing plan included a very thorough analysis of the potential buyers’ profile. Targeting the right audience meant web presence everywhere - from the single property web site www.6Preserve.com to Realtor.com, Zillow, Trulia, Craiglist, blog platforms, Homes.com, local sites and international destinations. Our marketing included the Open Houses with all traditional preparation like neighbors’ notification, newspaper Ad, professional nerworking, etc. It included the outstanding job of our buyer’s specialists.

I can tell you the truth: only multi-channel marketing works today. You may decide on giving away your place for nothing to a total stranger, and it still may take time to get rid of your property. You may decide on getting a better price from the person who will enjoy living in your condo, and in this case you really need a right professional who will deliver this result to you pretty quickly.

Need to sell your condo or home in Solon, Mayfield, Gates Mills, Lyndhurst, Willoughby or other suburbs af Greater Clebeland? Make the right choice - contact Svetlana Stolyarova from Local-n-Global Realty via e-mail Realty@Local-n-Global.com or by phone 216-548-4663.

Local-n-Global Real Estate Hotline 877-770-5551 is available 24/7. 

I love Greater Cleveland and I am happy to greet everyone who is moving to our great communities. It’s always confusing to pick up the right one even when you live in the vicinity and can drive around before making the final decision. It’s much harder when you are too far away from the place where you suppose to move to.

Isn’t it great that we have so many on-line open sources of all kinds of information about the neighborhoods? I think that the one offered by Local-n-Global Realty is real helpful. Please check out this new great tool - I am sure you will be pleased by convenience and accessibility of valuable information provided via our Community Reports.
Please feel free to contact our Local-n-Global Real Estate experts by phone 216-548-4663 or via e-mail: Realty@Local-n-Global.com.

We love our communities!

You can find great local Mayfield Heights, Ohio real estate information on Localism.com Svetlana Stolyarova,Local-n-Global Realty, Broker is a proud member of the ActiveRain Real Estate Network, a free online community to help real estate professionals grow their business.

Despite all the troubles of today’s critical market, people still get married, families grow, kids go to college, people get new jobs. All these changes usually mean sale or purchase of a house. New sellers-to-be look around the neighborhoods and see the scary signs of buyer’s market: large inventory of homes for sale, lower prices, tons of “short sales” and many new, but not good  ”neighbors” - banks and “asset management” companies who can not take care of their assets but can and do drop the prices ruthlessly competing with respectable, diligent private sellers.

We in Local-n-Global Realty compiled the special report “Seller’s Guide to Buyer’s Market” which we offer to your attention.

Read this doc on Scribd: Seller’s Guide to Buyer’s market

Please call us 877-770-5551 with any questions regarding Greater Cleveland Real Estate. If you need to sell your house, please do the right things:

1) Refer to Seller’s Guide to Buyer’s Market report.

2) Check out Market condition report

3) Call Local-n-Global marketing specialist 877-770-5551 to receive professional consultation on market condition in your neighborhood, to assess your seller’s needs and strength.

4) List your house with Local-n-Global listing specialist

5) Sell it!

Good luck to all the sellers and the buyers.