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Marysville Real Estate Podcast Sandy Eagon

Marysville Real Estate Podcast Sandy Eagon

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How do you know when it’s time to make your next big career move? With International Women’s Day around the corner, we are excited to feature Avni Patel Thompson, Founder and CEO of Milo. Avni is building technology that directly supports the often overlooked emotional and logistical labor that falls on parents—especially women. Milo is an AI assistant designed to help families manage that invisible load more efficiently. In this episode, Avni shares her journey from studying chemistry to holding leadership roles at global brands like Adidas and Starbucks, to launching her own ventures. She discusses how she approaches career transitions, the importance of unpleasant experiences, and why she’s focused on making everyday life easier for parents. [01:26] Avni's University Days and Early Career [04:36] Non-Linear Career Paths [05:16] Pursuing Steep Learning Curves [11:51] Entrepreneurship and Safety Nets [15:22] Lived Experiences and Milo [19:55] Avni’s In Her Ellement Moment [20:03] Reflections Links: Avni Patel Thompson on LinkedIn Suchi Srinivasan on LinkedIn Kamila Rakhimova on LinkedIn Ipsos report on the future of parenting About In Her Ellement: In Her Ellement highlights the women and allies leading the charge in digital, business, and technology innovation. Through engaging conversations, the podcast explores their journeys—celebrating successes and acknowledging the balance between work and family. Most importantly, it asks: when was the moment you realized you hadn’t just arrived—you were truly in your element? About The Hosts: Suchi Srinivasan is an expert in AI and digital transformation. Originally from India, her career includes roles at trailblazing organizations like Bell Labs and Microsoft. In 2011, she co-founded the Cleanweb Hackathon, a global initiative driving IT-powered climate solutions with over 10,000 members across 25+ countries. She also advises Women in Cloud, aiming to create $1B in economic opportunities for women entrepreneurs by 2030. Kamila Rakhimova is a fintech leader whose journey took her from Tajikistan to the U.S., where she built a career on her own terms. Leveraging her English proficiency and international relations expertise, she discovered the power of microfinance and moved to the U.S., eventually leading Amazon's Alexa Fund to support underrepresented founders. Subscribe to In Her Ellement on your podcast app of choice to hear meaningful conversations with women in digital, business, and technology.…

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If you need anything from me during this difficult time, I’m here to help. Whether it’s a real estate need or not. Today we’re talking about what’s happening in the market right now. With all the uproar about the coronavirus, for good or for bad, there are ways that we are affected that you may not even be thinking about. A lot of people are asking me what’s happening in the market. My buyers are asking whether they should wait, and my sellers are also asking whether they should wait. As usual, it all depends on what’s happening in your life. Real estate is a life-driven business. We’re still having people who are being relocated for work. We’re still having parents who need to go into assisted living or somewhere that better fits their needs. In nine months from now, we’ll have a few more babies joining this world as well. “If there’s something I can do for you, please let me know.” So, what do you need for real estate? And we’re here to provide that. And just like usual, if there’s anything else that I can help you with, house-wise or otherwise, we’re here for you. If you need something, I will get it for you or I will get it to you. One or the other. If there’s something at all that I can do to help, please let me know. If you are looking to sell or buy a house, please click the link or give me a call—direct message me. Let’s be in touch. Let’s have a conversation and see how I can help you right now, whether it’s to sell your house right now or whether it’s to get ready for upcoming. Have an amazing day. Stay healthy, stay safe, and let’s all get through this together. Be blessed.

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Marysville Real Estate Podcast Sandy Eagon

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Marysville Real Estate Podcast Sandy Eagon

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Should You Cosign for Your Friends or Family?

3 years ago

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Here are a few considerations to make before cosigning on someone’s loan. Hi, this is Sandy with Sandy and Company, and today we’re talking about whether you should cosign a loan for family or friends. Most of us have gotten a helping hand at some point in our lives. When I was teaching high school, I often had students come in and ask if they could borrow a dollar or 50 cents, whether it was something for the snack machine or to get lunch. As long as I had the money, I would go ahead and lend it. I made a little note, and if they didn’t pay me back, I just never lent any money to them again. If someone is asking you to cosign a loan, it’s probably a lot bigger number than 50 cents or a dollar. You have to ask yourself two questions that are very important before you decide to cosign on a loan for someone that you care about. First of all, do you have the money to pay that bill if they don’t? If something happened and their paycheck didn’t come in, something that they were counting on didn’t happen, or an unexpected bill came up and they couldn’t make that payment, could you cover it? Secondly, could your relationship withstand that stress? Those are the two biggest questions that I have. Make sure you are financially capable of handling this and that your relationship is capable of handling any hiccup in their payback. “Do you have the money to pay that bill if they don’t?” Let’s say you can answer yes to both of those questions or for whatever reason you feel an obligation to go ahead and say yes and cosign. You need to have some security in knowing that they’re actually making that payment, whether you get statements that show every month that it’s been made or whether you can get notified if those payments fall behind. There are times when an authorized person can get notifications if the payment is not made. You need to not be surprised by a collection bill in your mailbox that is so far behind that it’s both affecting your credit and you’ve got collectors on your tail to get that bill paid. If all that’s in place and you feel like this is the right thing to do, then yes. Please be a help to your friend, be a help to your family member, and help them get that foot up so that they can do what they need to to provide for their family as well. No man is an island. We have people around us that we very much care about, and we just want to make sure in our caring for them, we don’t do something that’s going to hurt that relationship down the road or hurt your ability to be on your island and not sink in the ocean as well. If you have questions about this or anything else we can help you with real estate, reach out, message me, or call me. I’m so glad to be that resource for you. Have a super blessed day, stay safe, stay healthy, and I look forward to talking with you soon.…

Marysville Real Estate Podcast Sandy Eagon

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See For Yourself: Why You Can't Wait for Prices to Drop!

3 years ago

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Don’t wait to buy a home; it will cost you more in the long run. Today I want to give you one more reason not to wait until prices drop before you buy a house. I totally understand the concern about where prices, home values, and affordability are—it costs a lot of money to buy a house. The question I have: Is it going to cost you more to not? Let me explain: Since 1989, our prices have dropped only four years. Four years in the last 21 years. From 1989 to 2020, the prices dropped only four years. Now, this is a national graph, but it follows what happened here locally in the Seattle area as well. I felt that bottom fall out in June of 2007, and it was not pretty. But I’ve also seen since then that anyone who held onto their property has not only made up that value, but then some. Real estate has always made money over time. So if you are in the market to get a house and keep a house, to get an investment property and keep that investment property, to get a second house and keep that second house, do it now. Just do it now. I don’t care if you can buy a condo, a little fixer-upper, or anything you can get your hands on. I know that it’s a competition, but do it now because later on it will only cost you more. “From 1989 to 2020, our prices have only dropped four years.” Did you know that the average homeowner has 40 times more net worth than the average renter? Get in now. Get in while you can. If you’re not sure how you can do that, call me. Let’s either set it up so you can make that happen right now and get that competitive edge that we’re helping our buyers get, or if we can set up that plan to make sure you can purchase sooner instead of later. We are here to help your home decisions matter, to help them make sense to you and your time. Can you time the market? No, not really, except for to get in. Let’s just get you in. Call us, message us, let’s talk about how we can help you get into that home now, and make it work for you in the long run. Stay safe, stay healthy, be blessed, and we’re here to help. Reach out now.…

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3 February Garden Secrets

3 years ago

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Three gardening tips that you should do before it warms up outside. Hey, this is Sandy with Sandy and Company. You may think that because it’s February and the sun is not shining and warm it may be time to still stay inside for a little bit longer, but this is actually the perfect time to get your yard and your garden ready. I’ve got three tips for you to do right now before it gets warm. I confess that I have been inside baking bread and enjoying my cooking shows and my knitting, and I’ve been looking outside going, “Man, I think there are a few things I need to do, but I’m not quite ready to start.” Well, here are three easy things that won’t take me a lot of time, and as you’ll see, I am not done with them. In the next couple of weeks, my intent is to knock those things out. The first thing we need to do is trim these fruit trees. You can kind of see where it’s rounded and where the growth is—the lots of little twigs—and where it just goes straight up. Take a look at that shape, and you can see where it really wants you to trim back to so that you can have nice, diverse branches coming out. Take anything away that looks dead, and take anything away that’s crossing another branch. They actually want to have their own space. If you don’t have tall trimmers, that’s actually something that I can lend you. I’ve got a trimmer for some really tall trees. There’s a clip and there’s a saw part of it that would be really helpful there. But do it before the sap starts coming into the branches and before the buds open up. So this is perfect fruit tree trimming time. “Now’s the time to just make your space clean and fresh and ready for the new green stuff to come up.” The next thing is to get rid of dead plants. Now, I’m embarrassed to show you, but I actually have sunflowers that are dead and just sitting there, and they’ve got to go. Anything that’s dead that’s a perennial, cut it back. If it’s an annual, take it away completely. While you’re there, go ahead and pull out some of those green weeds that are coming through, and make some good space for the new plants to come up. Then decide what it is that you want to keep and what you want to take out. Now is the time. The third thing you can do is actually for the life around your garden. Take a look at your bird feeders; clean them up. My son gave me this bird feeder for Christmas. Thank you! And of course, we’ve got our hummingbird feeder over here. We’ve tried several that are even fancier, but they only like that flat bottomed red one. So give them a lift, clean them out, and make sure that they’ve got enough food to get through until they can really start getting some food on our trees. Here’s a suet cup that one of my clients (thank you, Caroline) gave me that the birds are really getting into. So, now’s the time to just make your space clean and fresh and ready for the new green stuff to come up. Take a look at your yard. I am not going to bore you and fill up your inbox with every time I get one of these things done, but take a look at our Facebook or our Sandy & Company page. And that will be my accountability to you and make sure I get this done in the next little bit before everything starts to grow, and I go, “Oh my gosh, I really wish I could be seeing what I really wanted to see that makes my garden and my yard beautiful.” There you go! Enjoy your homes. Your home is the place for you to thrive and to really just stretch out and say, “This is what looks and feels good around me.” This is what we want for you. If you don’t feel that way about your home, talk to me. I would love to see what we could to help you either love your home or find one that you will. This is now the time; it’s an awesome time to buy and sell real estate. Give me a call. Have a super blessed day! Stay healthy! Stay safe. We love you, and we look forward to talking with you soon. Be blessed.…

Marysville Real Estate Podcast Sandy Eagon

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Market Predictions and Peaceful Tidings

3 years ago

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Here’s a message of prediction and peace as we begin a new year. Today we’re talking about what’s coming up in 2022. I have had so many people ask me over the last few years: “Are we gonna have a crash?” “What’s happening with the real estate?” “Are prices going up?” “Are prices gonna drop?” I heard an awesome explanation of what happens before a real estate crash. A real estate crash only happens when we don’t have people who want to buy houses. That is obviously not the case in the Pacific Northwest. Anywhere near Seattle, the housing market is still incredibly tight, and it’s definitely a seller’s market all around. “Let’s talk about what really works for you.” With that said, we’re not expected to maintain the increase at the same rate that we did during 2021. How much are we going to increase? It really depends on your local market and what’s exactly happening. Local market can be as much as your neighborhood: a five-block radius, a part of Everett, a part of Seattle, Shoreline, Edmonds. It really depends on what’s happening directly around you. How much did you go up this last year? And then shave a little off the top—how much? Let’s talk about what really works for you. This should give you some peace going into 2022 if you have concerns about your real estate market and what you need to do. Whether it’s the time for you to sell, whether it’s the time for you to buy, whether you’re looking to find the next place, we’re not about to have the bottom fall out from under you. Because we can generally forecast, and as we get closer, we can more specifically forecast what’s going to be happening for you. That way we can talk with our clients, both sellers and our buyers, about what the best time is to meet your needs and your goals in your real estate transaction. We wish you amazing peace in this next year. In your families, in your homes. If you’re doing a real estate transaction, we would love to help you with that and let you know how we can help you during that process of both forecasting at the beginning and walking you through, holding your hands, and making sure that we’re putting our expert experience to your best use and your bottom line. Have a super 2022. I am looking forward to talking with you when we can help with your real estate needs. God bless you, stay safe, stay healthy, and I look forward to talking with you soon.…

Marysville Real Estate Podcast Sandy Eagon

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Should You Sell in the Wintertime?

3 years ago

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Here’s the answer to whether it is a good time to sell in winter. Today we are talking about the wintertime market. The question we often get is: “Is there a bad time to sell? Can I sell in the wintertime? Is it a good time to sell?” And my answer is always, “yes; it’s a great time to sell.” There is actually never a bad time to sell. But for example, we have two families right now that we have helped to go ahead and sell their house, one in town and one in a bit more outlying area. And they both had multiple offers. They both went over their listing price. “So is winter a good time to sell? Only if you want to make some money.” The one most recently last night, they were hoping for one price, we listed for $50,000 more using comparables and direct data to show us why we should do that. And then, guess what happened? Six offers, much over asking price, and we are in contract for a good amount, that’s going to pay for their move to Missouri, and everyone is really happy. Now, obviously, it still has to finish out, but it’s looking really good. We’ve got a cash buyer and another one right behind him that says that if this one can’t do it, they’re ready to take over. So is winter a good time to sell? Only if you want to make some money. And we’re glad to help you with that. Our motto is making lives better. How can we help you with yours? Have a super blessed day, and give us a call when we can help you with your house in the wintertime. Be blessed.…

Marysville Real Estate Podcast Sandy Eagon

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We’re Thankful For You

3 years ago

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I wouldn’t be where I am today without all of your support. Thanksgiving is here! I hope you are as excited as I am. I’d like to take a moment to express my gratitude to all of you this Thanksgiving. We’ve had a wonderful year with wonderful people who have made me laugh and love. I wouldn’t be where I am today without all of your support, and we are grateful. Please enjoy my Thanksgiving encouragement video, complete with a significant guest appearance by Harley. And then enjoy your Thanksgiving dinner—that’s what we plan to do! Then as soon as the leftovers are put away and the stock is ready for turkey noodle soup, we’ll be back in the office and ready to serve you again. Please watch to hear how we’re grateful for you this Thanksgiving season.…

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Sandy's Top 3 Podcast Picks

3 years ago

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Here are three podcasts that have improved my life for the better. Hi, this is Sandy with Sandy and Company and today we are talking about your greatest investment: yourself. Did you know that the law of entropy applies to yourself as well? Everything moves from order to chaos. Everything, including your thought life and your motivation to become and to stay the best of who God made you. You can charge ahead in your business life and in your home life and your personal and your school life, but unless you have someone else coming alongside to help you stay up the up at the top, you can slide pretty quickly down that hill that you have climbed every day. In an interview in 2019, Warren Buffet said, “By far, the best investment you can make is in yourself.” There are so many ways to invest in yourself, whether you go into classes and seminars, if you read books, listen to podcasts, you do coaching or you get mentorship. “By far, the best investment you can make is in yourself. - Warren Buffet” Lately my favorite is podcasts. When I’m in the car, for an hour or so, one of the best ways I can stay awake is to listen to podcasts and to actually keep my mind moving the entire time. And they’re usually growth minded. I’m gonna give you my three favorite podcasts right now. Here’s my first favorite podcast: TheBrianBuffiniShow.com. I love The Brian Buffini Show because he is interviewing so many different people from different walks of life. Whether they are athletes, authors, preachers, politicians. Sometimes he just talks about the books and what he got out of them. But ultimately they’re looking at the mindsets, the motivations and the methodologies, it’s way it’s the way they put it of success. And it’s always encouraging. And it’s always giving me things I can think about, about how to either improve things or sometimes to pat myself on the back a little bit because I’ve already got that in place. “This is how I keep my mind fed.” My second favorite podcast is Graham Cooke’s BrilliantPerspectives.com. Graham Cook has such a heart for the love of Jesus and the magnificence of who he is and who we are in him. And I’m always left with an understanding with a better understanding of how much God really loves me, how much potential I have in him and the steps that I can take to really reach into, feel and experience that love. God loves me so much. And he loves you that much, too. Anything that we can do to tap into that is just making life better all the way around. My last favorite podcast is Keep The Faith’s ContagiousInfluencers.com. David Sams interviews high profile people. Most of the ones I’ve listened to have been actors, musicians, and athletes, high profile people that really once you get to the story behind the story, and I’m sure there’s even more behind that, but it just gives us an idea of how that person got through either life’s difficulties or even life successes and how it impacted them, and helps me think as well about my path and the tough things that I’ve been through and the great things I’ve experienced and how I can impact other people as well and share those experiences so that I can share the wealth and share the contentment of a really great life, that’s lived well. As you can tell, I love The Lord, and I love people, and I get encouragement from both of those. And that’s how I really keep my mind being fed, so that I’m not just sitting in my own thoughts and sitting in my own experiences, getting my head out of my own self and into other people’s stories really helps me keeping on the right track. You can find all of these online, just on the regular internet, as well as any podcast app that you have on your phone. And I highly encourage you to take some time and listen as a way to increase your net worth. And don’t be surprised if you see the other net worth rise up as well. If you do need to change your home, if it’s time to sell, if it’s time to buy, or it’s time to invest. Give me a call. Message, call, text me today, email me today. We are your Realtor resource who is interested in adding to your bottom line. Stay safe, stay healthy, stay blessed. I’ll see you on the flip side.…

Marysville Real Estate Podcast Sandy Eagon

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How Homeownership Stabilizes Your Finances

3 years ago

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Here’s a short story that shows why homeownership is so important. This is a friend-of-a-friend story today. One of the big questions we have right now is: With all the uncertainty, are we going to have enough money to make it in the future? A friend called me a few weeks ago, and she was concerned for her friend who was in her 50s and still renting an apartment. We’ll call her Faith. My friend had been talking to Faith for a while now about buying a condo in order to stabilize her living expenses. Faith works at Walmart, an hourly job, but she has also just gotten a nice little inheritance. So if she bought a condo, she could go ahead and pay for that condo with her inheritance, have enough money for security, and let her hourly job pay for her living expenses and homeowners association fees, especially once she no longer paid over $1,000 a month for rent. “The best way to control your future living costs is to own your own home.” So finally, Faith was ready to take that leap. We found her a nice little condo in town and made sure she had an inspection so that she can get her family in there and make sure that we had the thumbs up from everyone that she was going to be well taken care of. I just gave her the keys last weekend, and she is so excited. She is thrilled that she gets to make this her own place that feels so good and feels pretty around her. And our mutual friend is relieved Faith is no longer paying rent to a landlord who can charge whatever he likes because he can, and that’s what the market will bear. Did you know that the best way to control your future living costs is to own your own home? If you have questions about this and about how homeownership is a key part of financial security, let’s talk. If you’re looking for a Realtor who can help you increase your net worth and stabilize your living expenses, call me, text me, or message me today. Stay safe, stay healthy, and have a super blessed day. And I look forward to helping you with your real estate needs. Call me today.…

Marysville Real Estate Podcast Sandy Eagon

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Market Change = More Opportunity

4 years ago

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Here’s why a change in our market means more opportunities for you. We watch the trends all the time about what’s going on in today’s market. What’s happening in the last month, six months, a year. What we can project forward moving into the next few months and even to this next week. And as much as those trends have shown us that the market is strong, and it is strong, there is still a little bit of a change in the air right now. Now it is fall. The air is cooling. We were used to 90 degrees, 100 degrees. It was really steaming hot and fast and furious. Now suddenly I’m seeing that things are shifting a little. We’ve had two buyers right now who have had their offers accepted even when they had to sell their current house first. It’s been a process. We’ve had to work through it, but we have two buyers who are purchasing even though they have a house to sell. That is one big indicator of how I can tell things are changing because in the market where everybody was going red hot, and houses were selling with so many buyers that don’t have a house to sell, that wouldn’t have even been considered. The second thing I’m seeing is that we have houses on the market for longer. We had a house just last week that we listed, and for the first time in probably a couple of years, it has lasted longer than the Monday that we were reviewing the offer. We’re not worried. We know we’re in a good position. We’ve got a game plan, but it’s just telling me that things are shifting. “Let’s talk now because we don’t know what’s going to happen in six months.” Like I said, when it was 90 degrees and then it turns into the 80s and 70s, sometimes it feels a little chilly. If I’m a seller, I might actually be concerned about this, but the exciting part is that there is not a concern, there’s just the game plan. You’re going to sell and buy in the same market. Whether it’s up or whether it’s down, you’re going to get the opportunity on one side and the tension on the other. So you’re going to be fine ultimately. The opportunity that we see here is that we have a chance for sellers to go ahead and find the next house without having to take away all the safeties that make it an easier transition. So, here’s the question I have for you: Are you looking to buy? Are you looking to sell? Do you need to change your home? Do we need to do it in a way that is a little easier on the stress factor? If that’s the case, this is the time for you. Let’s talk right now because who knows what’s going to happen in a month or six months. It might cook back up again and be 100 degrees-plus. But right now we have an opportunity for you to make that change and do it in such a way that you feel more comfortable. Give me a call. Let’s talk today. If you’re looking for a Realtor who can gauge today’s temperature and today’s market and make today’s plan, then let’s talk today. Have a beautiful day, stay healthy, stay safe, be blessed, and I’ll talk with you soon.…

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Don’t Lose Track of Those Important Documents

4 years ago

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Here’s a helpful reminder to keep track of your important documents. I have had two completely separate clients over the last two days searching desperately for their letter that comes out every year and says how much social security they’re collecting. One of them is to qualify for a loan, and the other one is to qualify for tenancy in a mobile home park. Both of those people really needed it in a timely manner. This is one of those things that you think, “You know what, yeah, yeah yeah. I’m going to get the bank statement every month, I’m going to see that it’s in there,” but you know what? For bookkeeping purposes and honestly, I don’t know what else you may need it for, but I’ll bet you it might come up, and if you need it, you’re going to wish you had it. So that letter that comes at the end of the year that says what you’re getting the year following or the one that comes the first off as soon as you start getting your social security or your disability, save it. Put it in a file folder with your important documents so you know that you’ll be able to find it when you need it. That place that says, ”Hmm, I put it somewhere so that I would remember.” Make sure you actually remember where it is. This is just a quick message today because anytime I start seeing a pattern and think, “You know what? I think more people need to know about this,” we end up helping a lot of people through the process of homeownership, whether it’s in the actual purchase, or in helping them get their things together to finance, or obviously other options as well. This is one of the things you’re going to need. “Make sure you remember where you put it.” Let me know if there’s anything we can do to help you. Whether it’s looking at homes, looking at your home and getting ready to sell, or getting those documents so you can put your plans together and not be freaking out, going, “I know I had that. I know I put it somewhere, but I can’t find it. So, just want to give you that tip today. Have a super blessed day. Let us know how we can serve you. Our motto is, “Making lives better.” How can we make yours? Be blessed today.…

Marysville Real Estate Podcast Sandy Eagon

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Projects to Tackle Before You Sell

4 years ago

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If you are thinking about selling, here are a few things you need to think about. When I’m coming up to a home with a buyer, we use our buyer eyes to look for four main things: 1. What is broken? 2. What is dated? 3. What is dirty? 4. What is cluttered? As you’re walking through your home before you put it on the market, look at what buyers are going to want to deal with right now. You may say that in a seller’s market, everything is going to sell and you don’t have to lift a finger. That is true—to a point. You don’t have to lift a finger, but if you don’t, you’re going to take a hit in your pocketbook. If you really want the home to shine and sparkle, and if you want to hit the buyers right where their hearts are, you need to make sure that everything is ready to go. The first things to look at are your roof and siding. How does the roof look? Do you have a number of years left on the wear? Do you have some patches? Does it need some cleaning? How is your siding? Are the boards smooth? Are you going to need to get a paintbrush out to make it clean and ready to go? Roofs and siding are two big-ticket items that buyers want to hear about. When you go up to your entry, is it sparkling? Are the windows clean? Are the spiderwebs gone? And that’s just the beginning. As you’re walking through the house, I want you to look at each room not as the room that you’ve walked into every day for however long you’ve lived there, but rather as the room that people will be walking into for the first time. Look at the structure and not your belongings. Is this a place that really shows off what you have to sell? “If you are thinking of selling your house within the next few months, now is the time to take stock and see what you have.” If you’re looking for what to do next, look around for things that are broken and fix them. If the broken item in question is a big-ticket item, call me. Let’s talk about whether that’s something that you can handle, something that you need help with, or if it’s something that you need the buyer to take care of. If it’s dated, is it something like paint and carpet? If so, you can always get your money back by updating them. Light fixtures can also bring a good ROI, but granite countertops? Not so much. Next, assess whether your home is clean and sparkling. You could do most of the work yourself, but depending on the situation, you might want to hire a cleaning crew at the last minute to come in and do a deep clean of the property. If your home is cluttered, figure out if you have things that you need to donate or put away in a storage unit. Now is the time to take a look, especially because we have one more month of reliably good weather to get someone out there to see what they can do, like a contractor, before things may start to turn. If you are thinking of selling your house within the next few months, now is the time to take stock and see what you have. Give me a call! Let me walk through and share with you what I would do (or not do) if I were you, as well as how we could help you make the process smoother and simpler. Let me know how we can help! Have a super blessed day.…

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Your Summer 2021 Real Estate Market Update

4 years ago

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Here’s my take on what we’re seeing in the real estate market right now. Today, we are talking about the early summer Snohomish County housing market. I get asked so often whether there is a bubble coming up, and people are concerned that maybe our prices are at the very tippy-top and they don’t want to be on the slide on the other side. Well, what I can show you is that there is still so much more demand that it is not dropping anytime soon, even though we are well overdue for a correction. We’re not going to have a pop and a slide like we did in the past, so take a look at this slide (0:36): As you can see, the inventory has come well down from what it was in 2019/2020. It pretty well dropped out. There was a short spike up just because people didn’t know what was happening in the mid-spring, and then people were scrambling after that trying to find the home that fits for them until the point right now where both in March and right now again in May, and then we’re waiting to see what happens with the end of June’s numbers. We’re still at 0.3 months of inventory. What does that mean? Well, you can see where I marked where the one month is. That means that if nothing else came on the market in one month, everything would be sold. Well, we are well below that so if nothing else came on the market, we would be sold out within about a week and a half. We had a week and a half’s inventory back at the end of May. We do expect that to slowly creep up again, and we are seeing that there is more inventory available, I just don’t have that specific number for you. But there are still so many buyers, whether it’s their first home, whether it’s the family home, which in many cases right now our first-home buyers are looking to get that family home that they’re going to be able to raise children in, that they’re going to be able to have the dogs and the cats and the friends and the entertaining and have the bigger space that they can make sure is going to suit them because they are paying quite a bit of money. They want to make sure it’s going to suit them for years to come, and then we have the other families that are getting smaller and are going to the smaller spaces from the larger. “We’re ready to help you when you’re ready to make a change.” What is going on with your life is what’s going to dictate what your home needs to be like and shape like in order to make it fit for you. So what is happening in our market? Very very low inventory, and that is still making sure that our buyers are competing not quite as much as they were back in March, but they are still competing with other buyers to make sure that they’re paying the top price, having the fewest contingencies. What does that mean for you? Let’s talk, because we’re always wanting to make sure that our people are taken care of making the best, most educated decisions in this market about what they can do with their money for their home. We know what’s happening in the market because we can see both statistically and anecdotally. We know what’s happening with the stories with our current sellers, with our current buyers, and we’re ready to help you when you’re ready to make a real estate change and make a change with your home. Call me, text me, message me. We’d love to talk with you about your real estate needs and how we can help you right now with your home. Have a super blessed day. Stay safe, stay healthy, and we look forward to talking with you soon.…

Marysville Real Estate Podcast Sandy Eagon

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It's About Time

4 years ago

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Here’s an example of how timing can affect your real estate plans. Today we’re talking about the timing of real estate because it’s not always fun. I had a client call me a few months ago. Things were not going so well with her dad down in Texas, so they were gearing up toward making a great big move. They had a number of belongings in different states: in Utah, in Texas, and around here. They were collecting what they had left behind at different times in their life and getting everything back into the same area. So they were making several trips out of state and trying to put everything together so that it was a smooth process. Well, we got most of that worked out and put the house on the market. Within 24 hours we got an offer, a great offer, so my clients decided not to wait through the weekend. We let the people who had already seen it know that we were reviewing offers that evening, and there was a flurry: we ended up with six offers on day two—all well over our listing price of $700,000. By the time it was over, we ended up having offers up to $850,000, and we took one for just under that at $830,000. So the very beginning was a scramble, and then we got to wait. Appraisers in the more rural areas are a little slower right now, so it took a while to find an appraiser who was willing to go into Stanwood and take a look at acreage. So we got a little behind because the lender was having a hard time finding someone to appraise the house, and then once that happened, there were still things that needed to be worked out on the loan. We ended up giving these buyers four extensions… four extensions after that initial hustle and hurry, then we got to sit and wait. Now, a day or two is not so much of a big issue, but by the time we got to the third and fourth extension moving into two weeks, it started getting a little nerve-racking for the seller about whether this buyer was really able to perform. So along with our fourth extension, we gave some hardball news that said, “Hey, we need you to make sure that this is really going to happen, or you’re going to start losing some earnest money.” Those make for hard conversations. Real estate is in the middle of life, and while no one is looking to take anything unfairly from someone else, if there’s going to be a risk, if we’re going to leave our house off the market and not getting the exposure that it needs to do to get sold, then maybe there’s something we need in return for confidence and assurance that they’re really going to be able to finish the job. “We want to be fair but also confident that this is really going to come together for everyone.” That’s what we do as real estate experts: we help our clients look at the situation, look at the market, look at the people involved, and ask, “Okay, where is the risk, where is the benefit? What do we need in order to have assurance and do the right thing?” Because we’re all people trying to get to the same end result, we want to be fair but also confident that this is really going to come together for everyone. Ultimately, the house did close. The seller got his money, the buyers got the keys to the house, and my sellers are in Texas and taking care of family, which is where they need to be. So the question is of timing, whether it’s “Do we sell right now?” or it’s, “Can my property in this market do what I need it to do for the next step?” That’s the conversation that we get to have. And when we’re in the thick of it, we get to make sure that our client’s needs, as they see them, are taken care of and protected. So what time is it? It’s time for us to take care of you. Our motto is “Making lives better.” How can we make yours? Have a beautiful day, stay blessed, stay healthy, and we look forward to talking with you soon when we can help you with your real estate needs.…

Marysville Real Estate Podcast Sandy Eagon

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We Love Feeding the Hungry

4 years ago

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Here’s a quick recap of RED day and how we were able to help the food bank. Today we are talking about helping out our food bank. Yesterday was RED day, and RED day at Keller Williams means that we are helping out in our community. And so, for me, I actually was just busy with some other things, and at the last minute, I realized I have done nothing to help our food drive. And so I just got on the phone yesterday, called about 40 of my top favorite people, and not all of them, trust me. If you didn’t get a call, it just meant that I was going to save you for next time. So, but if you did, I want to thank you from the bottom of my heart. Sometimes people, it’s the right time to give, and sometimes I’ll catch them next time. And the people that did, I picked up food and donations from almost 20 homes, and lots of food here. “Top Ramen is great, but you don’t want to make life on it.” Let’s see, I’m looking into the sun, but my truck is full, my heart is full, and we picked up enough money that with me matching and our owner matching, we’re bringing in a little over $4,000 to the Marysville Food Bank. The summertime is kind of lean, especially for the kids. They need more than pb&js, and this is going to give them the ability to feed many families with good foods, good meals, meat, fresh fruits, and vegetables. Top Ramen is great, but you don’t want to make life on it. If you’re in a spot, and if you’re able to give, free free to give me a call. I keep a bag going all the time. Give me a call, and I will pick up or donate to your local food bank if you know where it is and it’s easily accessible. Have a super day. Bless the people around you. It really is the best way for you to get blessed in return. There really is nothing like going out and being face to face with people and having the opportunity to bless those who lift you up. Have a super blessed day, stay healthy, be loved, be blessed, and I look forward to talking with you soon when I can help you with anything real estate or anything else. Take care.…

Marysville Real Estate Podcast Sandy Eagon

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Are You Home Yet?

4 years ago