Real Estate – Real Estate Right Now

What You Should Know About Getting Your First Mortgage

February 1, 2024 jayizso First Mortgage, Podcast, Real Estate

With interest rates coming down, some of you are considering purchasing a home. Typically, people who purchase a home need a mortgage. Most often people will start their home purchasing process by speaking with a real estate professional. But a great real estate professional will tell you to start your home purchase with a mortgage lender. The reason being seller’s want to ensure that you can obtain a mortgage before you can purchase the home. So now you set up a meeting with a mortgage lender, what should you expect? What should you be prepared for? Do you need to bring anything with you? In this episode of Real Estate[…]

Let’s Get Real About the Real Estate Market

April 20, 2023 jayizso Podcast, Real Estate

Let’s get real about the real estate market. What is really happening out there? What should you know when it comes to buying and home and selling a home? Not from a Real Estate Professional perspective, but from a Mortgage Lender perspective. What are interest rates doing? Should you wait to sell or buy a home? What does the future look like? Could we see another buying frenzy? Michael Martin or Martin Mortgage Group part of Fairway Morgage talks to us about the realities of what the numbers are showing in the real estate market right now! This a show you just do not want to miss! Michael also has[…]

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Home Buyer Nuggets for Purchasing a Home in Today’s Market

February 5, 2023 jayizso Home Buyes, Podcast, Real Estate

Are you a buyer wondering what you should do in this current market? Perhaps you have heard statements such as “it’s difficult for buyers to buy right now” or “buyer’s should wait to buy”. Or maybe you are just not sure what it takes to buy in the current market. On this episode of Real Estate Right Now we are joined by Buyer Specialist Nogui Armaburo affectionately known as “Nugs”. And “Nugs” is going to give you his nuggets for how buyers can approach this market. I guess you could say your going to get some “Nugs Nuggets” when it comes to buying a home. If you would like to[…]

2023 Real Estate Insights and Predictions - Tony Fink - Real Estate Right Now - Jay Izso

Real Estate Insights and Predictions for 2023

January 6, 2023 jayizso Podcast, Real Estate, Real Estate Predictions, Triangle Real Estate

Well here we are in 2023. It’s a new year in real estate. Last year was, well, for a lack of a better term…wild. At the beginning of the year houses were flying off the market at record prices. By the end of the year, we saw interest rates rise for the first time in years, and the market went from a normalization to a slow down. That begs the question: What about 2023? What can we expect? Well of course like last year no one know for sure what it will bring, but there some indicators of what we may see in 2023. In this episode of Real Estate[…]

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Crazy Things in Real Estate & What a Hanyman Can Do for You

October 7, 2022 jayizso Podcast, Real Estate, Weird Real Estate

Real estate is not always glamourous. In fact there are times when real estate takes some pretty crazy twists and turns. In this episode of Real Estate Right Now Listing and Buyer Specialist Kim Crump of Linda Craft Team Realtors joins us to share with some of the unusual, weird, and down right bizarre situations she has incountered in her real estate career. Then Handyman Steve Austin (not to be confused with the 6 MIllion Dollar Man) talks about making repairs or making enhancements to your home, and he will aslotalk about some of the most unusual requests he has done that you may think a handyman may not do. […]

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How to Avoid the Pitfalls from Contract to Close

September 9, 2022 jayizso Podcast, Real Estate, real estate closing, real estate contract

The whole buying and selling or real estate can feel confusing, stressful, and overwhelming. Who designed the real estate contract? What does it really mean? Who is responsible for what? What should you know? How can an experienced real estate professional help you? Owner and President of Linda Craft Team, Realtors, Linda Craft herself joins us again to discuss the details of the contract process and what you should know. Okay so now you have a contract what happens at closing? Well many states can be different when it comes closing of homes. But in the state of North Carolina the Buyer has a “closing attorney” that must handle many[…]

First Time Home Buyers

July 29, 2022 jayizso First Time Home Buyers, Podcast, Real Estate

The market has changed. Higher interest rates, low inventory, higher prices is there room for the first time home buyer? Yes there is! What does it take to be a first time home buyer in this new market? What should you know that you don’t know as first time home buyer? What mortgage options are there for first time home buyers? All these questions and more, including some funny stories all on this episode of Real Estate Right Now! Our first guest is Kim Crump, listing and buyers expert from Linda Craft Team, Realtors. She opens Real Estate Right Now talking about the typical first time home buyers emotions, how[…]

Investing in Real Estate: The How, The What and The Who

July 22, 2022 jayizso investing, Linda Craft and Team, Podcast, Real Estate, real estate investment

When it comes to investing in real estate people are always curious. Perhaps you are one of them? Questions like…How does one get started in real estate investing? What kind of properties are most people investing in? And when it comes to investing in real estate who do you talk to? In this episode of Real Estate Right Now! Three experts that have professional experience in real estate investing from the small to the large are about to help you learn the how, what, and the who of investing in real estate. Our first guest Steve Kruger listing and buyers specialist with Linda Craft Team Realtors, has years of personal[…]

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Condos and Townhomes – What You Need to Know

July 7, 2022 jayizso Condos, Linda Craft and Team, Podcast, Real Estate, townhomes, townhouse

This is the condo/townhome episode. If you were wondering about the difference in condo’s versus townhomes vs single family homes…this is your show. We start off by talking with Dwayne Reece Listing and Buyers Expert with Linda Craft and Team, Realtors as he walks us through the differences between condos and townhomes and what are the pros and cons. Then Tony Fink (and check out his Fink Funny on Wednesdays) talks to us about Home Owners Associations, what is their role, and why they are important. He further talks us through what are the most important things buyers should know before they purchase a townhome or condo. Finally Paul Fitts[…]

New Homes – Agent Experience – Buyers Closing Manager – Home Insurance

June 29, 2022 jayizso Linda Craft and Team, Podcast, Real Estate, Residential Real Estate

In this episode of Real Estate Right Now Linda Craft & Team, Realtors, Selling/Listing Agent Dwayne Reese talks to us how the change in the market has affected new home sales and how that affects you. https://dwayne.lindacraft.com/ Listing and Buying Specialist Kim Crump rejoins us to relay her story of become a real estate professional and how all real estate agents are not the same and some tips that you may want to look for when interviewing prospective agents to either list or purchase a home.https://kim.lindacraft.com/ Buyer’s Closing Manager and Bilingual Spanish speaking Buyer’s agent Nogui Aramburo explains what entails being a closing manager, why having a closing manager is[…]