Las Vegas Real Estate Info

Trying to find a realtor to sell your home or buy a home with? Here’s the best way to find the right realtor for you:

Look through your local paper and see which company seems to do the best (or most) advertising. While you may not need the largest realtor out there, you are looking for how descriptive they are. You want to know if they give you a good mental picture of what they offer. Do their ads catch your attention? When you’ve gotten a list of realtors you want to talk to – you want to take a look at how many listings they have.

The more listings does not mean better. You are looking for one who works harder and has a good reputation.

When it comes to the interview, (yes, you interview your realtor) you want to know the following:

*How long has the agent been in business?
*Does the agent have references?
*Has the agent been sued or involved in a legal dispute with a client?
*How well does the agent know the area where you are selling or looking?
*What’s their commission?
*What are they prepared to do for you?
*What is their personality like?
*Do you like them

Ultimately, their personality is going to be their greatest selling point for you. If you do not like the realtor or their attitude, then don’t work with them – it’s a miserable combination to be involved in when it comes to dealing with the biggest sale or purchase in your life.

Homeowners in Las Vegas and North Las Vegas need to watch their water usage. The Water District is watching and every day waste investigators are issuing fines for people who are abusing their water privileges. For example, you are not supposed to water between 11 a.m. and 7 p.m. The fines can mount up in a hurry.

First time offenders will get a warning, but the second time around there will be a fine attached and some people are getting hit with fines that cost over $600. Homeowners love their green lawns and their beautiful landscaping, but watch the water waste so you don’t end up wasting more green to cover the bills. For more on this go here.

This information brought to you by Homes in Henderson and Las Vegas.

Veterans and other residents of Las Vegas might want to consider educating their local government about honoring soldiers lost to foreign wars. With so many soldiers dying in Iraq, it is a sad comment on the city and areas surrounding Las Vegas that so many of their memorials are falling into disuse, disrepair and even worse — demolition.

KLAS-TV reported on a monument to a missing soldier stands in front of a building known for its less than savory clientele. An olive tree on the grounds of probation and parole was built in the 1950’s. However, the crumbling facility is slated for demolition with its landscape including the tree right along with it.

The Campos Building at 215 East Bonanza headquarters for the state division of parole and probation. Dedicated in 1954 it once served as the governor’s southern Nevada office. Today those who use it say it’s simply served its purpose.

Residents, both past, present and future have a responsibility to protect the assets of Las Vegas and the memorials especially when they are investments in the future to honor the past.

The Las Vegas Sun is reporting an interesting tale about Henderson and North Las Vegas. It’s a digital, high-definition TV world, but when it comes to bringing local government into people’s homes, Henderson and North Las Vegas seem stuck in the black-and-white age.

Long after many local governments, large and small, began televising their meetings on cable stations, the two fast-growing Las Vegas Valley governments remain off the air - and seemingly not in any rush to go prime time.

“The city has grown, but this is not a news flash - we are stuck back in the 1980s,” said North Las Vegas resident Harvey Ferber, a regular council meeting attendee.

Builder Online is reporting that the inventory of homes for sale in Las Vegas reached an all-time high of 18,467 in April, a 29.3 percent increase from a year ago and nearly double the number from two years ago, the Greater Las Vegas Association of Realtors reported Thursday. Available condominiums and townhomes have increased nearly 50 percent to 3,971, largely a result of the trend in apartment conversions, which accounted for roughly 20 percent of last year’s new home sales. The median price of 2,230 single-family homes sold by Realtors in April was $310,000, down from $314,950 the previous month, but up 5.1 percent from the same month a year ago.

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