Top 10 Charlottesville Real Estate Myths
8/23/2011
Sponsored by: C'ville 1st-Time Home Buyer

1. Regardless of the market, it's always good to put money into a property to bring it up to showing quality.

2. If radon is found to be present in a home, the only way to be sure cancer is not an issue at all, is to demolish the building, secure the site, and possibly rebuild.

3. Putting ant traps and spraying around the home with store bought insecticides, is preferable to paying a professional exterminator.

4. An in-law apartment in your home can provide much needed offsets to your mortgage through monthly rent.

5. Easements on your property are only concerned with things under ground so you can always plant things or erect sheds and garages over them.

6. By doing a Short Sale, you are automatically forgiven the difference between what you still owed and what the home ultimately sold for.

7. A lawyer must always be involved with every aspect of the purchase of a mobile home.

8. Real estate commissions offered to Realtors are pre-set by the Virginia Real Estate Board.

9. Do not waste valuable time, energy, and money fiddling around with wills, insurance, and savings-get out and buy your first investment property before you get cold feet, the market changes, or you get paralyzed with first-timer's fear!

10. Do not buy a home that isn't equipped with a back-up power generator!

Sponsored by: C'ville 1st-Time Home Buyer

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Fulton W. Gaylord--Associate Broker, ABR, SRES, e-Pro
Registered HUD Broker, Certified REO Specialist
Keller Williams Realty
1885 Seminole Trail, Ste 100
Charlottesville, VA  22901
434-220-2228
fulton@fkw.com