The Benefits of Having a Realtor

All you have to do is look around your town or city to see WHY you need to have a realtor. Properties are being bought and sold everyday with the benefit of market research and planning. Often times these two elements are outside the scope of a person who wishes to sell their own home. Sure, you know what kind of equity you put into your own home, but how much did that other house down the street sell for? What kind of pricing is affecting the homes around you currently? Do you know how to reach out to prospective home buyers? These questions all lend to reasons why there are benefits of having a realtor.

Benefit 1: Market Research

Realtors have the benefit of not only searching the MLS (Multiple Listing Service) for you while finding a home or property you might like, but they also are privy to any phone calls that come into the office that might be from new sellers who are wishing to sell as soon as possible without going into the MLS. As a person who is not represented by a real estate agent, you would be missing out on these deals. Agents also have the benefit of researching market analyses of different property types in the area that you are looking to buy or sell in. This is invaluable information as it would go towards how much something is definitely worth.

Benefit 2: Planning and Consultation

Realtors are the people who have gone through assisting with 100?s of home closings and home selling situations. They are the ones to consult with in understanding how to sell your home. Do you keep you animals away when you have a home showing, and how much do you clean up? What do you want to highlight and what do you want to keep in the background. These are all questions that real estate agents can assist with.

Benefit 3: They are on your side

You will never have someone as ferocious on your side to help you buy or sell a home. Realtors are commission based for their service fees, but they rely on their network of clients to bring in their next client. Without their network, they wouldn?t have anyone to represent. That being said, they will do everything possible to get what you want. Without satisfying their clients, they would have no clients!

As you can see, realtors offer quantified benefits outside of assisting in purchasing or selling your home. They understand the nuances, the paperwork, and most importantly- your needs. For more information of tools and listings to search, please visit- http://www.connecticut-real-estate-ct.org/

Posted by Kim McDonald on December 13, 2008 at 12:00 AM

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Local Information for Kenai, AK

Latitude: 60.558738 -- Longitude: -151.229616

ZIP Codes for Kenai, Alaska	99611 99635
Area Code for Kenai, Alaska	907
Time zone for Kenai, Alaska	PST-1

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Kenai is named after the Kenai Peninsula. The name Kenai is probably derived from Kenayskaya, the Russian name for the Cook Inlet and translates to "flat, barren land". Or, it could refer to the Inuit word Kenai, which is what they call the black bear. Archaelogical evidence suggests that the area was first occupied by the Kachemak people from 1000 B.C., until they were displaced by the Dena'ina Athabaskan people around 1000 A.D. Before the arrival of the Russians, Kenai was a Dena'ina village called Shk'ituk't, which means "where we slide down." When Russian fur traders first arrived in 1741, about 1,000 Dena'ina lived in the village. The traders called the people "Kenaitze," or "Kenai people." In 1791, a Russian trading post, Fort St. Nicholas, was constructed in the middle of the village for the purposes of fur and fish trading. It was the second permanent Russian settlement in Alaska. -- Source: Wikipedia.com

Alaska 2000 Census Population Profile Map

	Kenai	Alaska	United States
Population	6,942	626,932	281,421,906
Median age	32.3	32.4	35.3
Median age for Male	32.3	32.4	34
Median age for Female	32.4	32.5	36.5
Households	2,622	221,600	105,480,101
Household population	6,918	607,583	273,643,273
Average household size	2.64	2.74	2.59
Families	1,787	152,337	71,787,347
Average family size	3.2	3.28	3.14
Housing units	3,003	260,978	115,904,641
Occupied units	2,622	221,600	105,480,101
Vacant units	381	39,378	10,424,540

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The Benefits of Having a Realtor

Local Information for Kenai, AK

Latitude: 60.558738 -- Longitude: -151.229616

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