Why You Should Sell Your Home This Fall
Are you thinking about putting your home on the real estate market? With the holiday season and winter fast approaching, there can be a sense of urgency with buyers. Here are the three best reasons you should sell your home this fall. Accentuate Your Home’s Best Features With the fall foliage and crisp weather, you can accentuate your home’s best features while showing your home to help it sell faster. For example, you may want to boost the natural beauty by decorating the interior of [...]
How to Protect Yourself from Title Fraud
Fraud and forgery can threaten the ownership of your Minnesota home. Without the proper protection before purchasing your home, individuals can use false documents to make transfer claims or acquire a loan. Here are three tips to help protect you from becoming a title fraud victim. Strengthen Your Internet Security Title fraud often occurs through Internet identity theft. Simple passwords that are easy to guess and used across multiple websites can make you an easier target. Change your passwords on a regular basis and make [...]
In-Demand Amenities to Boost Your Vacation Rental Ratings
Whether or not a guest stays at your vacation rental home again depends significantly on the amenities you provide. These little bonuses are a terrific way to make your vacation rental stand out from the competition and elevate it from excellent to outstanding in the eyes of prospective guests. Why Amenities Have Become So Important After a tough couple of years because of the pandemic, unique short-term rentals are driving the market recovery. This trend gives vacation rental owners a fantastic opportunity to set their [...]
Vacation Rental Upgrades That Attract Bookings and 5-Star Reviews
Investing in a vacation rental property is a fantastic way to maximize your monthly cash flow. And updating that property can further boost your income. In addition, homeowners who make minor improvements to their property enjoy increased bookings and excellent reviews. Travelers today tend to prefer vacation rentals to hotels. When searching for a place, they will usually pick an upgraded home to unwind from their daily adventures more comfortably. Therefore, your vacation rental must stand out. The following updates convince people to book and [...]
New Homeowner Tax Prep 101
If you are considering or have bought your first home recently, congratulations! As you may already know, there are a few perks to owning your home rather than renting. The elimination of ever-increasing rent costs is perhaps the most familiar, and you now have a nest egg building in the form of equity. In addition, you no longer worry about every little pinhole in the wall; they're yours to do as you please. You can build new ones and paint them any color you like, [...]
What Is Title Insurance?
It seems there's insurance for everything. Medical Insurance is one of the most common for help with medical bills. Automobile Insurance is there if you are involved in an accident or your car is damaged. Dental Insurance for your teeth, Life Insurance, Accidental Death and Dismemberment...the list goes on and on. So, what exactly is Title Insurance? It's not Homeowner's Insurance, but it is required by mortgage companies when you buy, sell or refinance your home. So, is there a risk that the title to [...]