Back to Overland Park Real Estate After a Very Long Hiatus

Posted at 8:36 PM, Apr. 24, 2007

After being on hiatus for several months, I'm finally back in the swing of things. It seems like with real estate when you've been away for awhile it takes forever to get back into it. But things are up and running again and it's a very good feeling to be working.

The market is great right now. Many people who had decided not to move last year are now making the decision to give it a shot again. Overland Park is such a great place to live and our market has never been bad. I bought a house in 1983 when interest rates were 16 3/4. That was a bad market. But we didn't know that. We just wanted to buy a house and we didn't have any other choice. I've also decided that it's not so much the market right now - it's the houses on the market that don't show so well. Or it's the awful photos on the internet. Don't people realize that over 80% of today's buyers start their home buying search on the internet. Some of those pictures are horrible. The more people who are understanding the importance of Staging and how their home is showcased on the internet are indeed selling their homes faster and for more money. If everyone would pay attention and get on the bandwagon, there would be fewer houses on the market. I showed buyers last Saturday and 7 out of 8 houses we looked at needed some attention. And we were in the upper $200's. They bought the best of the bunch. My Staging business is so busy I've hired two people to help out!