Albuquerque Real Estate News

Albuquerque homes for sale-Major Home Inspection issues

When a qualified buyer has decided to make a to make an offer on a home and it is accepted, usually the next step is to to get the home inspected.  This initial inspection should be done by a reputable inspector that is preferably ASHI (American Society of Home Inspectors) certified.  The state of New Mexico does not require a home inspector to be certified under any guidelines so ASHI is the next best thing for the inspection of Albuquerque homes for sale.

Now, once this main inspection is preformed, there may be some issues.  Some big issues.  One of these issues could be an electrical panel that has no evidence that it was "tagged" or had a final inspection from the city after an upgrade to the system.  Please do not let anyone make light of this!! As you may are may not have heard, electricty can cause fires!  Not only that, but if and home were to suffer from an electrical fire and your home owner's insurance finds out, they will must likely use that to try and get out of a claim.  I know that's a TERRIBLE thing to say about those poor insurance companies but its probably true.

There are several more examples and I'm sure you have your own.  Bottom line here is this - if something has been brought to your attention and you don't like it, make them fix it!  Don't let your Realtor or another Realtor make light of what you think is important.  You buying the home and its kind of a big deal!

Albuquerque homes for sale-iCloud-How it may help Realtors

I just wanted to share a quick thought I had about Steve Job's keynote last week and how it really had my wheels turning on how I could use the iCloud as a Realtor in regards to selling Albuquerque homes for sale.  The iCloud is suppose to connect all apple devices such as the the iPhone to the iPad to the iPod to the MacBook to the iMac.  So, when you download a song from itunes to your iPod, the information will be sent to the iCloud and then back to all your other devices.  So how would this benefit a Realtor? It works with pictures too.

A new improvement to iPhotos called photo stream allows a Realtor to take pictures (and hopefully video) of a home and these will automatically be dropped on an iMac or MacBook Pro. The photos can them be uploaded to the Albuquerque MLS quickly.  No more downloading from the camera or SD card which should save time.  and when time is saved, more time can be used to market the home more efficiently.  

iCloud also allows the user to begin a project like a flyer in the app Pages and finish the project on another device.  For example, a comparable market analysis can be started at the office and if something comes up that needs immediate assistance and the Realtor ends up leaving for the day, the project can be finished at home or even on an iPhone.

I realize this is not a new concept.  You can save data in an email and open it up any where and dropbox does the same kind of thing.  But with Apple's track record, I can't help but to think that this will be something that people will use over an over again. It will most likely work and feel much better than the alternative.  Should allow us Realtors to serve our clients more efficiently. I can't wait to try it out this fall!