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Your Mortgage Lender Can Make or Break Your Offer
Having an extraordinary mortgage lender on your side is crucial. It can be the deciding factor in getting the house you want. I've worked with many mortgage lenders and all are not equal. My favorite financing pros are ones who help elevate my clients' offers to the...
read moreHow to De-stress Your Coinciding Home Sale & Purchase
As a boy, I saw my father buy, renovate and sell investment properties — over and over. Can you imagine a life where real estate closings become routine? Here’s what I learned from him and over the past 30 years: when you’re buying and selling at the same time, it...
read moreDon’t Let Emotion Rule Your Home Purchase
When I help clients weigh the many factors in choosing a home, the most important and angst-producing ones are location, condition and configuration. Naturally, you bring strong preferences and emotional biases to the process of buying a home. My job is to help you...
read moreHow to Write Irresistible Purchase Offers in San Francisco
Recently, a friend introduced me to a young buyer who had been searching for a home for over two years. She had written loads of unsuccessful offers on San Francisco properties and invested so much time chasing the market up, up, up. I met the buyer for a brief...
read moreDon’t Fall for These 5 Homebuying Myths
I've debunked a lot of misconceptions in the course of working with umpteen homebuyers and conducting 50+ how-to-buy-a-home seminars. And I've been supplying practical tips through this newsletter for five years. The bottom line -- commonly held real estate myths can...
read moreHow to Win a Home Against an All Cash Offer
Have you ever lost a Bay Area home because someone swooped in with an all cash offer? Hard to top that — but you can. Welcome to the new world of the post approval letter. Post approval letters are now a standard part of our unique approach for helping homebuyers...
read moreGETTING READY TO SELL OR BUY?
Craig Ackerman
BRE Lic # 01358899
Ackerman Realty Group
1615 Polk Street, #3, San Francisco, CA 94109
(415) 730-3030 mobile / [email protected]