Gloria Ruesch's (ebagloriaruesch) Blog

Here's the scenario:  I have a buyer looking for a home in an older area of the city where homes have a lot of character and neighborhoods have done a lot of work to keep that character within the neighborhood.  Listings are few and far between.So a new listing comes on the market.  Listing agent...

Tomorrow, March 20, is the date of the Vernal Equinox.  Literally equinox means equal day and night and vernal is green, so I'm going to go out on a limb and say that it's time for things to turn green and having more daylight will allow things to grow.  I have been waiting so long to watch thing...

Okay, I need to rant for a minute.  I've shown a lot of property lately.  Since I only represent buyers, my feedback is usually limited to material defects  and "the buyer wasn't overly impressed."  I did tell one agent after Sunday that the house was not clean because one of the three cats had t...

               When negotiating the purchase of a home, price is not the only consideration used when drafting an attractive offer to a seller.  This is an area where an exclusive buyer's agent can be extremely helpful.  There is generally a way to find out what a seller's motivation is for selli...

CHICKEN LITTLE - THE SCARED SMALL BUSINESSPERSONChicken Little, a small businessperson, went running around the town crying "the economy is falling, the economy is falling. . . What will I do to make my bottom line improve?  What will I do?   What will I do?"He met his friend, Lucky Clucky.  Luck...

\As an Exclusive Buyer Agent, I've been through a lot of listings lately.  Here's a list of some of the lovely things I've come across lately.   Don't they look pretty!  They smell pretty too.  (not)  Mr. and Mrs. Seller, please don't leave these burning unattended in your home.  Can you spell fi...

I work with buyers relocating to the Omaha/Council Bluffs metropolitan area from places as far away as Hawaii and Alaska.  When they get here and buy a home they are sometimes excited about starting their gardens in this new area with new choices available to them.  But, if you look on the intern...

As Realtors, we pledge to do business in accordance with the Federal Fair Housing Law:  It is illegal to discriminate against any person because of race, color, religion, sex, handicap, familial status or national origin.  (Iowa just went one step further and added sexual orientation and gender p...

After talking with colleagues in different parts of the country, I've come to the following conclusion:  If there is a relocation company involved in the transaction, before I show the property I need to ask the buyer, how many brain cells are you willing to sacrifice for your new home?  If the b...

Since my good friend Kel brought up issues facing baby boomers (yes that's us), have any of you had to deal with finding a home that works for multi-generational families?   Are those families at the multi-generational stage now, or do they just know that they will be soon?  I have a client who i...