http://www.barlowshomes.com/Articles written to help you gain a greater knowledge of real estate and keep you up to date on the changing market. en-ushttp://www.barlowshomes.com/rss.xml In recent years we have seen we have seen the number of mortgage officers increase dramatically. There is a lot of money to be made selling mortgages and the laws that regulate who can become a mortgage officer make it very easy to become one. I kn http://www.barlowshomes.com/article/6Friday, September 9, 2005 12:00 AM When it comes time to sell, a lot of home-owners consider selling their home themselves After all saving a few thousand dollars worth of commission is worth a try. There are getting to be a lot of marketing tools available to home-owners who are m http://www.barlowshomes.com/article/5Friday, September 9, 2005 12:00 AM With the internet fast becoming the primary marketing tool of everyone who is marketing real estate we are seeing a lot of new technology geared toward making it more effective. One of these newer tools that we are seeing more and more is the virtua http://www.barlowshomes.com/article/4Friday, July 15, 2005 12:00 AM Once you get your home on the market and get your marketing (sign, classified ad, brochures, internet listing) in place, the next most important thing is to prepare your house to show to potential buyers. Remember the old saying: You never get a http://www.barlowshomes.com/article/3Monday, August 8, 2005 12:00 AM Not very many years ago an open house was a good way to market real estate. Buyers were used to keeping an eye out for upcoming open houses and then visiting several in the course of buying a house. Now-a-days we don't get much activity from open h http://www.barlowshomes.com/article/2Tuesday, August 9, 2005 12:00 AM I keep a close eye on the number of homes for sale along the Wasatch Front and I am noticing a trend: There are getting to be fewer of them. Last year at this time there were 14,000 homes for sale. This year we are hovering just above 11.000. Thi http://www.barlowshomes.com/article/1Monday, August 1, 2005 12:00 AM