by Indiefox

galatina, open house for renting

Image by Paolo Margari
torre pinta, galatina, lecce, southern italy, 2008
hdr (9 polarized shots) + photomatix; best viewed large
– would you dare to walk down that corner?

We have a lot to do in this fast growing world. House to live, food to eat and clothes to wear are the primary needs to lead a life. Everyone goes for a job to fulfill the primary needs. In this, almost 98% of the people buy food and clothes to their satisfactory extent. But when we talk about the house, very less people are staying peacefully. Yes, the people staying in rental house are very much disturbed. They face so many problems like high rent, shifting the house after rental agreement, sometimes house owner interferences and more. Why to be in somebody’s supervision? Be relaxed. There is a simple way to overcome this. The amount paying as rent if paid against a home loan by staying in it, will automatically make you an owner of the house during a course of period. But for some people it is in other way that they are fed up with their old home due to some reasons like less space, financial problems and so they want to sell their old one and get a new one accordingly. Whatever might be the situation either buying or selling, the first step of the people is to choose a proper real estate agents.

We can see so many real estate’s like Winter park real estates, Davenport real estates, St Cloud real estates and more dealing with buying, selling and renting homes. The winter park real estate deal is also with renting single family homes and also the apartments. The winter park real estate’s have many agents and Coldwell banker winter park is one among them to whom they believe in and hand over the customers to them. This Coldwell banker winter park office is situated in the centre of Orlando area appointed with so many staff to serve the customers. These staffs work dedicatedly with the customer from the starting of application process till we enter into our new house. They are the highly professionalized winter park realtor who serves the customer with a strict code of realtor ethics. Most people select Florida as their vacation trip and a pass by place for overseas travel. So people buy their second home in Florida and they hand it over to the Banker team who does the property management also.

Most of the winter park homes for sales are placed on the realtor official website. This website is well maintained by the winter park realtor, a NAR who never exaggerate anything and treat each and every party similar. According to the location of homes, their rates differ approximately from eighteen dollars per square feet to 1676 dollars per square feet. Presently some of the winter park homes for sale are reduced starting from 5% of the cost. Some auction homes are also found in Park Green Pl, Daniel Webster Dr and some other places. Many foreclosure banks owned homes are also found on their homes for sale website. Action homes and bank owned homes are cheaper which enhances more purchase percentage.

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by delayed gratification

Hardly anything really happens overnight, but changes often appear to be spontaneous because most people most of the time are not paying attention.

This has certainly been true in rental real estate where landlords are feeling the pain of record foreclosures, a housing crash and economic recession.

More people owning houses they could not sell meant more landlords and more vacancies and the economic down turn brings more jobless people, resulting in tremendous downward pressure in rental prices.

But, in fact the forces which are really driving rental real estate were in motion far before the collapse and no one noticed because upward distortions in the market had masked the developing problem.

The dramatic changes in the way Americans rent and buy houses had been shaping up over the last decade and the changes weren’t noticed by most landlords and real estate investors until the real estate market itself collapsed.

Personally, two years ago I was looking at 20 percent vacancies in my rentals and tried to fix the problem by cutting rents. I learned that was not the answer and set out to find real answers. The results we discovered have been so powerful that we now often fill vacancies in days and in as is condition, saving loss of rent and cost of renovations.

The changes we made to bring about the change were neither intuitive nor cheap. In fact I had to go through a process to discover the secrets to renting homes fast in the current market involving more time and effort than I remember spending to get a masters degree.

One of the first things I discovered was that most of what most landlords, certainly including me, “knew” was wrong. Not wrong like go on red and stop on green, but society’s concept of marketing had run away from us in the last ten years and we had not noticed because the real estate market appeared so strong that we did not need to change.

Ignorance is no longer bliss. When we started to look for research that would show how to rent houses faster the first thing we discovered there is no social science research in the relationship between landlord and tenant. But, fortunately there is tons of research done in areas that translate almost directly to our field.

Psychological motivations to buy both irrational and rational are at play and have been research by people like Dr. Robert B. Cialdini, while Regents’ Professor of Psychology at Arizona State University. Published research shows that in certain circumstances people willingly and happily pay more for the identical goods and services.

Not only is cutting price for rent unnecessary, it actually attracts the wrong people. The secret is be aware you may be doing things wrong and look for ways to improve and that information is available. Of course we would recommend our new eBook “911forLandlords” as a source, but libraries and book stores all carry reports of the types of research that we surveyed to learn how to rent houses faster and for more money.

Our research led us to the conclusion which we have (and are) tested that in order to compete in any marketing effort today, you absolutely have to take into consideration the way the internet has changed marketing and respond to that change.

The Internet is driven by the word FREE. Free chapters of books at Amazon and the brick and mortar stores respond by letting prospects read books for free in the store. We have found that the same psychology is required to compete for tenants today and while I have seen others offering free rent, we have found that is not necessary.

We would suggest that you need not give away rent and can still be aggressive in the competition if you can satisfy other needs of the tenant by offering-FOR FREE– your professional expertise and honesty in helping the tenants find the best accommodations possible.

It is the flip side of the old image of the bad salesman forcing his ill fitting product onto the customer. While you as the landlord do not represent the customer and should not pretend that you do, you will fill more houses more quickly with people that will be happier with you longer if you fully disclose what you house has to offer and do not overstate.

Of course this also presumes that you have a powerful marketing machine driving prospects to your sales funnel and how to do that is another of the secrets we discovered in our research project and will address in an article soon.

Owning your own home: an idea so popular it’s known as the American dream. But as prices fall and foreclosures rise, for many it’s become a nightmare instead. How do you know whether renting or owning is the way to go?

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by LA Wad

A Mantis was Spotted at Home

Image by Yang and Yun’s Album
Surprisingly a mantis was spotted at my rented home in Shanghai.

This was originally upside down, so I rotated it 180 degrees.

The Ethiopian rental home market is vast, but is not very streamlined or standardized as in many parts of the world. In Ethiopia, one can find all sorts of homes for rent, from large, impressive houses, to small rooms inside very shabby houses. Rents can range from as low as a few Ethiopian birr per month, to tens of thousands of Ethiopian birr per month.

Home rentals in Ethiopia are predominantly in the form single family homes and rooming houses inside people’s homes. It is not very common to find modern apartment complexes that house many tenants in one place. If there are a few of these types, they are owned by the government and are targeted at certain people, such as the military or civil service employees.

The more modern Ethiopian homes are typically compounded homes that include a main living quarter, including living room, bedrooms, bathrooms and kitchen. Inside such a compound, one will also find service quarters where maids and other service people live in. And in many cases, one or more of the service quarter rooms may also be rented for extra income.

Due to the dramatic home price appreciation that occurred during this decade, rental prices have also gone up with it. What used to rent for 1000 birr per month is now commanding ten times as much. Also, due to the constant influx of workers from the country side and smaller towns into the cities, there may be shortage of rental homes in some neighborhoods in Ethiopia and especially during busy seasons of the year. And, oftentimes, this leads into higher asking prices for rental homes.

Rental home brokerage business in Ethiopia is not that well developed. Buyers and sellers rely on agents locally called “Delalas” for renting homes. These are local agents who know the neighborhoods and who basically mediate between renters and landlords. A great deal of negotiation is involved in renting homes. First quote prices can be substantially higher than the final prices. So, in many cases, one has to be prepared to negotiate with the landlord. Typically, the “Delalas” are paid commissions by both the renter and landlord on equal split basis. The fees can range from 10% to 100% of the rental price per month, depending on how long the Ethiopian home is rented for.

So, who rents homes in Ethiopia? All kinds of people rent homes in Ethiopia, including young people (single and married) who haven’t yet owned their own homes, students coming from out of state for study, day laborers who need a small place to retire for the night, Ethiopians coming from abroad to visit families, foreigners coming to Ethiopia for work or visit, etc.

Ethiopians coming from abroad and foreigners coming to Ethiopia for various reasons typically rent homes in some of the upscale neighborhoods in Ethiopia, such as Bole in Addis Ababa. They opt for relatively expensive houses that rent from 10,000 birr per month to prices many times more than this. In some cases, the owners stay inside the compound during the rental period, living inside the service quarters. However, this must be disclosed and agreed upon before hand so both the renter and landlord know about it.

To see the latest listing of residential and commercial properties for rent or sale, please visit Ezega.com. Ezega.com is the largest real estate portal in Ethiopia and lists hundreds of homes for sale and rent at any given time. Anyone can register and post properties for sale or rent for free.

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