Spencer Hayes's Advice

Make sure you keep your listings renewed as well. Sometimes the auto feed wont link correctly and you will have to manually enter the listing. 

  Give your home an upgrade in Technology for less than $1500 and saving 30% of that cost in one year.Ideas:Using your Smartphone to turn the lights on and off in your home from private app in real time. Never have to fumble through dark rooms and walkways again, just turn on a couple or every light in your home as you pull up in the car! Implementing these small things because it makes sense and is a readily available technology.Adding on remote door locks that link to the same app used aboved to lock, unlock, monitor, and protect your family in ways keys could never.Add a small camera that scans the drive way and a "hidden camera" inside in common area. By "hidden camera" I mean along the lines of a smoke detector camera, book camera, clock camera, etc. It doesn't take an unlimited budget to get what once was considered to be reserved for the affluent.IT MAKES SENSE !!! 

The difference is huge! Many new home builder's like to call their products "custom" or "green". But how are you supposed to know what either one of those terms mean if you haven't even met the builder? Well, the fact is your not getting either. A "new" home may be more correct in the fact that the home is built using all new products. Yet, there is nothing "new" about the home that builder is selling you. Likely the company has built the very same floor plan and layout hundred's of times, just with different material finishes. When your looking for a "new", "custom", home you need to do research on your builder. Look at their website! What projects have they completed in the past? Have they won any awards for their work? Do they sit down with you before construction begins to talk about the benefits or issues facing "green" construction? How many times have they built the floor plan you like? Is the area in which you want to build suited for what you want access to?Big box custom home builders really contradict themselves when selling a true custom home. Look for a long time local homebuilder. They are likely the ones that take a greater pride for the area in which they do business. They're also the best ones to ask what type of home is best to build in a certain area. You need to take into account; Property Values, Sold Homes, Neighborhood Information and the local economy. A true custom home builder will give you the unique products that are built into your home. Don't get caught up in the model home of a big box custom home builder by picking out meaningless cheap fixtures that are all the same. Get out of the box and create your own living space. It may not be as quick, cheap, or easy. But it will be well worth every bit of what you put into creating your space at the end of the day when it really matters.

Is it worth the time and effort in this day and time of the Real Estate market to pursue a LEED certification? Do home's LEED certified really sell faster than typical new built homes? I think Green Home building is great and that its done on a daily basis anyways its just not marketed that way.

God ! lol but realistictly from my own point of view, technology like zillow will be the ones who let you know. Its a transformative time in Real estate.

In our current economy and "feelings" of real estate market its thrown that conventional thinking out of the window, now is not the best time to sell, but rather i know it sounds crazy but buy !! We in the industry cant go any lower so yes sell if needed, but hold/buy if comfortable and thats the long term i see being most positive.