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How to Hire the Right Real Estate Agent How to Hire the Right Real Estate Agent If you're reading this blog, I imagine you have experienced some of the horrors of dealing with real estate agents. The vast array of financial professionals and their backgrounds, their expertise, their knowledge, everything can vary from such an extreme. And I think part of that is the entry aspects into our business. So you do have to spend time studying real estate, real estate law, transaction information, and codes of conduct, and ethics, and so on and so forth. And then you take a test, and you pass that test, and guess what, you're a licensed realtor. So I do feel that it's very important that you take the responsibility of hiring the right agent very seriously. And we see a lot of different things happen out there in the marketplace. One of the things that we hear often are horror stories about the realtor or the professionals involved in the transactions. Not a

Cost of Waiting to Buy or Sell a Home - Ruth Squires Cost of Waiting to Buy or Sell a Home Introduction There are a lot of economic factors that are affecting people's decisions to buy or sell a home currently, and I want to discuss what the potential costs of waiting are that you should be considering. So one of the questions we often hear is, interest rates are so high, I want to wait until the rates start to come back down. And a question to ask yourself is, what's the magic interest rate that is going to be the prime time for you to purchase a home? The thing that I want to mention is also that there are many ways to mitigate or manage the high rate environment. This is not anything new. Interest rates have always fluctuated. In the height of previous years, we had double-digit interest rates above 20%. So this is not unusual, and it's not as bad as I think people like to, and the media especially makes