How to Organize Your Home Before a Showing

The Omaha area has an excellent variety of homes within a vibrant market of both buyers and sellers. If you're considering purchasing property in Omaha, GO HERE to perform a Full Home Search, or if you're thinking about selling your property, CLICK HERE for a Free Home Value Report. For any other questions you have regarding current market trends or your own home's value, please don't hesitate to call me at (402) 614-6922, or email me at adam@brileyhomes.com.

 

I recently found a good video on HGTV that I thought would be helpful to you if you're preparing to sell your home. It's essential that when you show your home to buyers, it's clean, organized, and decluttered. You'll want to empty out your closets, or at the very least, get them organized.

One thing you can do to get organized is put up shoe hangers in your doors, and store everyday items inside them such as cleaning supplies, utensils, or anything else that you can fit in them.

Another way to cut down on clutter is to use labels, or pick up storage bins to keep items like cords or wires in.

A tip for organizing your closet is to divide your clothes into four different sections: hang, sell, donate, keep, and fold. Once you have something marked out for every category, you can then organize your closet in any way you see fit. Here's an extra tip: you can use belt hangers to hang your necklaces and other jewelry.

I just thought this video would be useful for organizing your home, whether you're selling or if you just want to tidy up a bit.

If you need any assistance with staging, decluttering, or selling, please don't hesitate to contact me!

Have You Heard About Rent-A-Box?

The Omaha area has an excellent variety of homes within a vibrant market of both buyers and sellers. If you're considering purchasing property in Omaha, GO HERE to perform a Full Home Search, or if you're thinking about selling your property, CLICK HERE for a Free Home Value Report. For any other questions you have regarding current market trends or your own home's value, please don't hesitate to call me at (402) 614-6922, or email me at adam@brileyhomes.com.

When it comes to moving into a new home, there is a lot of stress and worry involved. One thing that can drive you mad is not having enough boxes to move all of your things in. Today we would like to introduce you to a company that can greatly assist you with your move, while reducing your stress in the process. 

Rent-A-Box is a company with a very simple concept. What they do is take big, sturdy, composite boxes with built-in lids, and deliver them to you for your next move. When everything has been loaded, moved, and removed from the boxes, they will come back and pick up the boxes for you. 

The prices are affordable, the service is great, and most importantly, the boxes are sturdy. No more brown paper or cardboard boxes, these sturdy, plastic boxes make sure your valuables won't fall through the bottom. 

This is a great service for people who are moving. Not having to worry about locating, moving, and recycling cardboard boxes is a gift in itself. If you would like to learn more about Rent-A-Box and the services they offer, visit their website at http://rentaboxomaha.com/.

If you have any questions for us, be sure to give us a call or send us an email. We would love to assist you with any questions you may have!

What I am Thankful For

There are a variety of opportunities in the Omaha real estate market for both buyers and sellers. If you're a prospective buyer click here for a full home search, or if you're considering placing your home on the market, get a free home value report, right here.

Today I just wanted to make a quick video to talk about the 5 things I am most thankful for. Thanksgiving is right around the corner, so what better a time to talk about what I am thankful for every day. Here is my top 5:

1. My Family
 I love my wife and my children, and wouldn't be where I am without them.

2. My Team
 I have an amazing team and without our team, we wouldn't be able to do everything that we do for our clients, which brings me to number 3.

3. Our Clients
 Our current, past, and future clients, you are what keeps us going and always wanting to improve and get better.

4. My Health
 I am extremely grateful for my health, and the health of my family.

5. My Mentors
 I am very lucky to have people in my life that are helping me learn, grow, and constantly get better. I am always thankful for people making me better so I in turn can help our clients and make their lives better.

Thanks for taking the time to check out our post. If you have any questions, or want to let us know what you are thankful for, give us a call or send us an email. 

5 Things About our Guarantee Program

There are a variety of opportunities in the Omaha real estate market for both buyers and sellers. If you're a prospective buyer click here for a full home search, or if you're considering placing your home on the market, get a free home value report, right here.

Hey guys, thanks for coming back to our blog. Today we just wanted to explain, a little more in-depth, our guarantee program. We have come up with 5 quick statements about our program that will hopefully be able to help you understand it better, because we know it is confusing at times. 

1. This is a trade-up program

To qualify for our guarantee, the client must be moving up and buying directly through a Briley Team listing. We can still offer you the guarantee if you don't, but we won't be able to offer as much. 

2. The Briley Team will buy your home for market price minus our 10% program fee

This figure is determined by both parties involved, based off comparable sales in the area. 

3. The commission then comes off of that net price

4. The Briley Team will offer the guarantee on homes up to $250,000

The average price for a home in Omaha is $200,000.

5. The client agrees to accept any offer that results in a net price equal or higher than the guarantee price.

If an offer hasn't been received within 180 days, The Briley Team will purchase the home for the guarantee price and close the sale within 45 days. 

Our guarantee program benefits both buyers and sellers. Buyers have the benefit of being able to sell their homes no matter what. Sellers benefit by knowing that our buyers will have no strings attached when it comes to purchasing a home if they are in our guarantee program. 

If you have any questions, feel free to give us a call. We would be glad to help.

How Your Credit Score Can Hurt Your Chances of Buying a Home

There are a variety of opportunities in the Omaha real estate market for both buyers and sellers. If you're a prospective buyer click here for a full home search, or if you're considering placing your home on the market, get a free home value report, right here.

Your credit score is complex combination of multiple factors that greatly affect your eligibility to take out a loan. Three companies - Equifax, Transunion, and Experian - provide information that your lender will use to determine whether or not a loan will be approved. These companies track where you spend money, what kind of debt you have, medical expenses, car payments, and credit card expenditures, among other things, to determine your score.

The range is between 300-800 and the baseline for eligibility depends on your particular situation and lender. To make sure you don't run into any problems, you need to err on the side of caution and work to build as good a credit score as possible. To do this, we recommend you check your score on a yearly basis, either through the IRS website or the many free credit score websites. This way you know what to expect before meeting with a lender.

If you are worried that your credit score is too low to qualify for a loan, feel free to reach out to us. We will put you in touch with experts in the field that can help you build your score to acceptable levels. We are also available to answer any of your questions about real estate in the Omaha area, so don't hesitate to give us a call. We would love to hear from you.

Get the Most Accurate Listing With our Help

There are a variety of opportunities in the Omaha real estate market for both buyers and sellers. If you're a prospective buyer click here for a full home search, or if you're considering placing your home on the market, get a free home value report, right here.

Both Zillow and Trulia are amazing websites. We advertise with them a lot and they are very helpful in getting good exposure on homes for both buyers and sellers. However, due to their lack of access to a true MLS like the one we use at The Briley Team, their estimates on homes can be a bit off.

You may wonder how these sites are getting an accurate estimate on what your home is worth, but the truth is they really aren't. They are pulling data  from a mixture of county assessors, newspapers, and other listing services that take into account homes in the area, but not your specific home. Each home is unique and it's very common that these online estimates are as much as $100,000 off the actual worth of the home according to the MLS database. This could cause you to pursue a home you can't afford or to not pursue a home you should be.

It is really important that whether you are looking to buy or sell, you are talking to actual real estate professionals like ourselves. We know what these homes are really worth and we can talk you through the best strategies on pricing your home or putting an offer in on a new home. Our listings are the most accurate and if you would like to access them, you can do so right on this page! If you have any questions at all please feel free to contact us at (402) 680-5733 or at adam@brileyhomes.com.