It’s summertime and the livin’s easy...or maybe not, if this will be the summer when you’re trying to sell your Costa Mesa home! It’s a fact that summer buyers tend to be well-motivated buyers. Or they may be jamming activity between vacations, backyard BBQ’s and (especially recently) just trying to stay cool. In other words, they also may be distracted buyers. Luckily, there are reliable basics you as a homeowner can help best position your home for a successful summertime sale: 1. Mow the Lawn Twice a Week – everything grows faster in the summer! 2. Create Summer Curb Appeal – colorful flowers in beds and planters. 3. Decorate with Summer Accents – bright accents in tropical colors to evoke coveted vacation days. 4. Bring the Light Inside – It may be bright
Whenever the U.S. economy is booming, there are naysayers who view it as terrible news. It’s not surprising since economists can disagree about just about anything and point to statistics that prove their point.
A recent CNBC report provides a golden example. It’s one that, if you’re inclined to think it’s time to sell your Costa Mesa house anyway, would reinforce that thought. It ran under the gloomy headline “Housing is providing another in a line of troubling signs”—the signs were those “pointing to an economic downturn.”
The report elaborated on a finding that compared home sales statistics from a recent period with those that preceded coming recessions. To the analyst author (Fed economist William Emmons), the result indicated that an
