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Fresh insights from Northwest Atlanta — published weekly by Nicole France and her team.
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Best Guide to Buying a Home on a Private Road: 7 Facts | Nicole France RE/MAX
A home on a private road is common across North Paulding, Bartow, and the rural edges of Cherokee, and it is one of the few property characteristics that can stop a loan cold for reasons having nothing to do with the house. The buyer is qualified. The home appraises. Then underwriting asks for the road…
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Best Guide to FHA and VA Appraisal Requirements: 8 Fails | Nicole France RE/MAX
FHA and VA appraisal requirements kill more Georgia deals over fixable items than over value, and almost nobody sees it coming. The buyer is approved. The price is agreed. Then the appraisal comes back “subject to repairs” over peeling paint and a missing handrail, and suddenly a seller who never wanted an FHA offer feels…
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Best Guide to Your Seller Settlement Statement Georgia: 7 Checks | Nicole France RE/MAX
Your seller settlement statement Georgia closings produce is the only document in the transaction that tells you what you actually made, and it is the one most sellers glance at for eleven seconds before signing. You are handed a page of debits and credits at a table where everyone is waiting on you, and the…
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Best Guide to Red Flags When Touring a Home: 8 to Catch | Nicole France RE/MAX
Red flags when touring a home are the ones you can catch for free, in twenty minutes, before you spend anything. That matters more than buyers realize. By the time an inspector finds a problem, you have already paid for the inspection, possibly an appraisal, and burned two weeks of your due diligence period on…
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Best Final Walkthrough in Georgia Guide: 9 Things to Check | Nicole France RE/MAX
Your final walkthrough in Georgia is the last thirty minutes you have any leverage, and most buyers spend it wandering through empty rooms feeling excited. They look at the light coming through the windows, imagine where the couch goes, and sign the closing documents an hour later. Here is the reframe. The walkthrough is not…
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Best Guide to Selling a Home After 30 Years | Nicole France RE/MAX
Selling a home after 30 years is a different transaction than selling one you bought in 2019, and almost nothing written for sellers accounts for that. The advice assumes you have a mortgage, recent comparable purchases in your memory, and a house that was current when you moved in. None of that describes someone who…
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Best Explanation of Why Identical Homes Sell for Different Prices | Nicole France RE/MAX
Why identical homes sell for different prices is the question that makes sellers angriest, and it usually arrives as a comparison. The house four doors down, same floor plan, same builder, same year, closed for $28,000 more than yours. Same street. Same schools. Same lot size. And nobody can give you a straight answer about…
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Best Look at Waiting for Rates to Drop | Nicole France RE/MAX
Waiting for rates to drop is the most common plan in real estate right now, and it is rarely an actual plan. It is a feeling, usually reasonable, that today’s number is too high and a better one is coming. What almost nobody does is run the arithmetic on what that better number is worth,…
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Best Guide to How Appraisers Determine Home Value | Nicole France RE/MAX
How appraisers determine home value is the least understood part of a real estate transaction, and the misunderstanding costs people money. Sellers assume the appraiser walks through, forms an impression, and produces a number. Buyers assume the number is objective truth. Neither is right, and both misreadings lead to bad decisions when the figure comes…
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