What is someone’s home worth? Short answer, of course, is whatever someone is willing to pay for it. And if they’re buying with cash, that’s all the answer one needs, right? So, for those of us who don’t have bags of money at our disposal, the real-life answer to that question is the amount […]
Someone much wiser than I once told me that there are always three sides to a story: Party A’s side, Party B’s side, and the truth. In the mortgage/real estate world, that’s especially poignant. On a recent transaction, the real estate agent representing the sellers was eager to get the appraisal ordered –we had a […]
Some time ago, in a science class I was required to take, I learned something that I actually remembered. Here in the United States, manufacturers of food and other consumer products are required to list the ingredients in the order of their quantity in said substance, largest to smallest – and that’s the reason […]
