3 Reason to Buy in A Down Market Monday, January 16th, 2023 at 12:17pm. Kurt Wannebo To Watch Video Click on "Read Full Post" 3 Reason to Buy in A Down Market by Kurt Wannebo I'm Kurt Wannebo, and I'm going to talk about three reasons why you should buy a property in a down market. I've been in this business almost 20 years, and no matter what the market's doing, buyers have concerns whether they should buy or not, whether the market's going up. They're worried about overpaying or if the market's going down. They're worried about their property being worth less than what they paid for it in a period of time. So let's get to the three reasons. Number one, if you're renting, buying a property is better than renting for three reasons. One, each month you're going to make a payment and that's going to lower your… Read Full Post »
How long can I rent back? Tuesday, December 6th, 2022 at 2:53pm. Kurt Wannebo To Watch Video Click on "Read Full Post" How long can I rent back? by Kurt Wannebo One of the questions I've been getting quite frequently from homeowners is the question: “If I do a rent back, what is it going to cost me? And how long can I do it for?” But before we answer those two questions, let's talk about basically what is a rent back. That is where you as a home seller sells your property, but you stay and live in it for a period of time as a tenant while your buyer becomes the landlord. So let's talk about what this will cost. Well it's important to understand that 80 to 85 percent of buyers in San Diego County are mostly utilizing loans in order to buy a property. And the thought process that we try to work around is that… Read Full Post »
How can I beat the high interest rates when buying? Tuesday, December 6th, 2022 at 2:47pm. Kurt Wannebo To Watch Video Click on "Read Full Post" How can I beat the high interest rates when buying? by Kurt Wannebo I keep having the same conversation with Buyers right now who say you know what, the interest rates are too high we're not going to purchase a property. But yet here at the end of 2022 as interest rates continue to rise we're still working with Buyers who are moving forward and purchasing homes. Now why are they doing this? Are they just paying these high interest rates because they have to? No, we've actually implemented some strategies for our clients to actually beat the current interest rates. The first thing that we're leveraging and doing for our buyers is we're introducing them to local banks and lenders. Lenders… Read Full Post »
What is a bridge loan? Tuesday, December 6th, 2022 at 12:22pm. Kurt Wannebo To Watch Video Click on "Read Full Post" What is a bridge loan? by Kurt Wannebo One of the questions I've been running into more and more from homeowners today Is: “ Are there Bridge loans out there?” “What are they?” “How do they work?” And it's interesting because for some of my older demographics they're very familiar with Bridge loans. Because they used to be around in the 70s and 80s and even early 90s. But really haven't existed much in the 2000s. and so in essence I wanted to go through what a bridge loan is and some of the benefits or downsides of utilizing one. So again one of the problems that I'm seeing with sellers is they're wanting to sell their home and go out and buy a new one. But the inventory is very low here… Read Full Post »
15,000 homeowners failed to sell last year, do you know ANY of them? Friday, February 1st, 2019 at 2:49pm. Kurt Wannebo To Watch Video Click on "Read Full Post" 15,000 homeowners failed to sell last year, do you know ANY of them? by Kurt Wannebo Today I’m going to cover one of real estate agent’s dirtiest secrets that they don't want you to know about and they don't want their clients to know about. Let’s be clear here, a lot of other real estate agents are going to be extremely and really mad at me for putting this out there and on video. But i don't care because you see I dedicated my career as a consumer advocate and doing what's in my client’s best interest. First, I have to start by educating you on something about what agents do to market your property. Yes, they market it all over the internet into the world and they create videos and… Read Full Post »
Real Estate Agents – Dirtiest Secret – EXPOSED! Monday, October 15th, 2018 at 4:54pm. Kurt Wannebo To Watch Video Click on "Read Full Post" Real Estate Agents – Dirtiest Secret – EXPOSED! by Kurt Wannebo Today I’m going to cover one of real estate agent’s dirtiest secrets that they don't want you to know about and they don't want their clients to know about. Let’s be clear here, a lot of other real estate agents are going to be extremely and really mad at me for putting this out there and on video. But i don't care because you see I dedicated my career as a consumer advocate and doing what's in my client’s best interest. First, I have to start by educating you on something about what agents do to market your property. Yes, they market it all over the internet into the world and they create videos and they create brochures and… Read Full Post »
Important thing to know if you're hiring a real estate agent to sell your home Monday, June 25th, 2018 at 3:43pm. Kurt Wannebo To Watch Video Click on "Read Full Post" Today I want to talk about one of the most important things that every seller should know if they're considering selling or hiring a real estate agent. In fact when I'm interviewing to list somebody's home and they're interviewing a couple different agents it's one of the first questions people will ask me. But other times I'd say 25-30% of the time people don't ask me this question or sometimes don't even know what it is. So what is that one important thing that you should know if you're going to hire a real estate agent and sell your home? That is their career (the agent’s career) sales price to list price ratio. Now what is that? Let me break it down for you very simply; let's say an agent… Read Full Post »
I Listed a Property for 1$ - Find out what happened!! Thursday, April 19th, 2018 at 4:25pm. Kurt Wannebo To Watch Video Click on "Read Full Post" I Listed a Property for 1$ - Find out what happened!! by Kurt Wannebo Hi Kurt Wannebo here. I actually a few months ago listed a property for ONE DOLLAR! I’m excited to tell you the story behind it and what the outcome was. Alright so here’s the background story of this, I meet with Sellers all the time and many times they want to list their property at a much higher price. Because they feel like every buyers is going to write an offer lower than their list price and they haven’t seen a lot of properties out there like their neighbors who have sold for above list so they want to be very conservative which is fine, I work with clients like that all the time. But likewise there are a lot of agents… Read Full Post »
The Tale of Three Properties Tuesday, March 27th, 2018 at 11:48am. Kurt Wannebo To Watch Video Click on "Read Full Post" The Tale of Three Properties by Kurt Wannebo People are always telling me that they think their home is going to sale for the same price irrespective of which agent they actually use. Or people will tell me that all of you agents are the same and you all do the same marketing. Or they have said they’re really consciences of what they want to put their home on the market for because they think that will effect the final sales price. Today, I’m going to tell you a story about three different properties which were almost completely identical, on the market at the same time and had three completely different results. Let’s talk about these three identical properties, I was very familiar with them, I… Read Full Post »