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Traverse City, MI Real Estate News

By Jennifer Allen
(C21 Northland)
If you’re getting ready to sell your house, take a look around. Chances are that one of your bathrooms could be a little drab. Dated wallpaper and lackluster draperies could be sending the wrong message to potential buyers. With just a few simple DIY projects, you could inexpensively breathe new life into that old bath!When it comes to prepping your home for showings, there are a few simple things a homeowner can do to make their rooms shine:1.    A fresh coat of paint: This one is a no-brainer. If that 60’s gigantic flower wallpaper is making you dizzy, it most likely will make potential buyers turn their noses. It is a lot of work to remove wallpaper, but with a steamer and some elbow grease it should only take a few hours. Now for the paint, pick a color that will make your bathroom ...
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By Jason LaVanture
(www.BlueLaVaMedia.com)
As you know, home staging is frequently employed by homeowners and real estate agents to help show properties to their best advantage. We all know that a staged home shows better than an empty home. As wonderful as traditional home staging is there are some drawbacks with regards to cost and what is actually included with the home. BlueLaVaMedia, producer of Traverse City Virtual Tours is very pleased to announce our all new virtual home staging product.  We will take any unfurnished room and stage it to your taste and style for only $60.00.  You're able to choose the furniture from our online furniture library.  Ordering virtual staging for one of your properties can be done by giving us a call by placing an order online. Please follow the link below and start Virtually Staging with us...
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By Jason LaVanture
(www.BlueLaVaMedia.com)
ould it really be High Definition Interactive Virtual Tours?  Yes, times have changed drastically over the last two years and team BlueLaVaMedia is working hard to keep our virtual tour technology at the forefront of virtual tour technology. Today we are proud to announce that we have upgraded our virtual tour viewer to support Full Screen High Definition images. Take a look at the virtual tours below and you will quickly see how our new HD full screen virtual tours transform the typical interactive virtual tour to something quite spectacular.  Trust us that our new HD experience literally makes your audience feel like they are standing right in the room! With just a click of a button BlueLaVaMedia now delivers you a brand new amazing interactive virtual tour experience. Sample our new ...
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By Jason LaVanture
(www.BlueLaVaMedia.com)
Could it really be HD Virtual Tours?  Yes, it is finally here and well worth the wait!  HD full screen virtual tours are transforming the typical virtual tour to something spectacular and offer our virtual tour providers the ability for yet another up-sell on technology. Take a look at a few of our most recent HD Virtual Tours: http://rtvpix.com/RE-0918-EOVNVQ-01 http://rtvpix.com/RE-1472-LLZMDE-01 http://rtvpix.com/RE-9236-VKBVEN-01 Would like to add the HD badge to your website?  Get your RTV HD badge now from our images download center found here: http://www.realtourvision.com/tourbuttons.php See how this looks in action: Traverse City Virtual Tours Finally we’re looking for the most impressive and amazing new virtual tours to add to the new HD virtual tour gallery on: http://www.rea...
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By Jason LaVanture
(www.BlueLaVaMedia.com)
Northern Michigan Outdoor Properties has formed a powerful marketing alliance with BlueLaVaMedia’s Northern Michigan FSBO division.  With the cost of print advertising becoming too expensive and their reach limited, Northern Michigan Outdoor Properties had to look for other mediums in order to maximize their listing exposure on a tight advertising budget. BlueLaVaMedia offers us high quality, cost competitive, interactive 360° panoramic virtual tours and several other powerful property marketing tools.  If you’re someone who still believes in a handshake to greet someone BlueLaVaMedia is far ahead of the curve when it comes to putting your listings in front of more eyes than ever before using Social Media sites such as Twitter, Facebook, Digg, and YouTube to gain you the exposure you ne...
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By Jason LaVanture
(www.BlueLaVaMedia.com)
Attention active rain community, real estate agents, virtual tour photographers and camera junkies alike.  Please join us for the next episode of The IMAGE "The official photography webinar of RTV virtual tours".  Are you looking for that perfect camera and not sure which brand is best?  Have you been to several camera shops only to hear each supposed expert claim their preferred brand is the best because of XY and Z?  If you have, please know that you're not alone out there.  In fact, there are thousands of people who simply throw their hands up in the air each day and select a camera out of sheer exhaustion. If only you could get all of those camera shop owners in one room at the same time so you can witness firsthand a fair and balanced debate then maybe then you could make an inform...
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By Cherry Wings Realty, Your Traverse City Michigan Realtor
(Cherry Wings Realty)
Traverse City Home Builders Association Expo Today is the last day of the Traverse City Home Builders Association home expo.  Over 100 vendors are on display at the East Middle School today from 11:00 - 4:00.  There is everything from building your own home to furnishing it.  I attended yesterday and made many wonderful contacts with some great vendors from the area.  This is a great way to get out and visit many local businesses and see just what they do, all under one roof.  Be sure to stop by and support your local Home Builders Association.  There are many great lenders there as well who can give you current pricing on lot loans, construction loans and fixed rate mortgages.  Be sure to stop by the First Place Bank booth, located in the gym and say hi to Holly Hack and the gang. 
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By Jason LaVanture
(www.BlueLaVaMedia.com)
We're starting to see the very first virtual staging images roll off the assembly lines.  RTV proudly gives our tip of the hat to Suzanne Feinberg from Scottsdale Virtual Tour Company PowerVision360.com for getting the very first virtual staging order completed over the weekend. The quality level shown above is quite amazing considering what we're seeing from other companies virtual home staging products.  RTV has led the way in 3D Renderings and 3D Walkthroughs for many years now.  It is likely that our virtual staging product will also dominate the industry. If you're looking for a source for virtual staging contact RTV today to order this from a local RTV virtual tour provider.  We offer two quality levels and deliver a very fast turn around time. Go RTV! Virtual Staging 866-947-8687
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By Jason LaVanture
(www.BlueLaVaMedia.com)
Dear Jack, During the RTV virtual tour webinar regarding the LifeLock system, Jason LaVanture mentioned a few steps to take if you thought you had spyware on your computer.  Could you please do me a HUGE favor and outline those steps?  Yours Truly, Melissa   Melissa my dear, Thank you so much for your interest in keeping your computer running smoothly. There's simply nothing worse than having a virus or spyware taking your valuable time away from you.  Let me run through what Jason (The Virtual Tour Guru) was talking about on the webinar and explain what he referred to as "Protocol".  Before spyware does strike you down you should arm yourself by going to http://www.avast.com/download-software  and http://www.malwarebytes.org/  and http://www.atribune.org/ for the ATF cleaner.  These th...
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By Jason LaVanture
(www.BlueLaVaMedia.com)
In the article virtual tour doubles as search warrant by Realty Times, Broderick Perkins addresses two homeowner / real estate agent objections about 360 virtual tours. Both objections relate to homeowner concerns of privacy. Although the article is very outdated with the popularity of 360 virtual tours (Dec 2002), these objections are still sometimes show up and I just wanted to write this today to show how they are easily put to bed with some intelligence and solid facts about our industry.Objection number one:According to his article, homeowners give up their fourth amendment right to 'expectation of privacy' and therefore expose their home to police search (without a search warrant) if the property were to become a crime scene during the time that the virtual tour was available to t...
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By Jason LaVanture
(www.BlueLaVaMedia.com)
On a recent trip to Florida, we had dinner on the beach during a beautiful sunset. The sky looked like it was on fire as gorgeous shades of red and orange lit the horizon. Wanting to capture the moment, we asked a friend to take our picture. In the picture, you can see the sunset if you look hard enough but unfortunately, the first and potentially only thing you see is my pretty but very distracting pink and orange paisley shirt.Preparing for a virtual tour is just like preparing for any photo shoot…it’s vitally important that nothing distracts the viewer from the big picture. Virtual tours allow prospective buyers, renters or customers to step into your venue and literally take a look around. After you live in a space for a while, you often don’t see your own clutter or distractions. P...
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By Jon Becker, Associate Broker
(Century 21 Northland)
Prime Traverse City real estate development potential in this  55+ acre partly wooded parcel with lots of road frontage on 2 roads, ( 1 county , 1 private) across the street from Silver Lake, Traverse City Schools. Appraised for $403,000    Now reduced $25,000 to $360,000 View full details & photos at www.c21jb.com   or www.c21northland.com  
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By Jason LaVanture
(www.BlueLaVaMedia.com)
This article is going to cover something called micro-blogging. More specifically we will be covering the basics of a website called Twitter.com and how you can use that in your business. By now I am sure you have heard of Twitter and may have heard various opinions of the site. Twitter is much more than a bunch of 'chatter' as many would refer to it. It is a very powerful 'micro-blogging' site and can prove to be one of your MOST effective marketing tools for your business. First go to Twitter.com and set up your account. Be sure to choose a username that is SEO friendly. For example, 'Traverse City Real Estate', 'Leelanau County Boat Rentals', etc. If you can, try to choose a username that closely represents what you will be micro-blogging about. In many cases your name will be fine ...
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By Jason LaVanture
(www.BlueLaVaMedia.com)
Hey everyone out there. Don't forget to update the code on your website so your agent video connector works properly for you. Remember all you RTV virtual tour providers, The Agent Video Connector is a FREE service for everyone in our network. Go snag your code now and let's get some Video on our sites! You can see mine right now if you go to my Traverse City Virtual Tours Website.
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By Jennifer Allen
(C21 Northland)
You do not need to spend a lot of money to own a ski lodge or hunting cabin! Sure Aspen, CO or Big Sky, MT might be nice but not very recession friendly. The Grand Traverse Area offers many ski resorts, cross-country trails, lakes for fishing, and fields for hunting. Our Traverse City real esate brokerage wants to help you find that cabin in the woods or vacant land parcel to suit your winter needs!The North American Vasa Trail is a favorite among cross-country skiers and snow-shoers alike. It boasts more than 60 kilometers of trails to explore. Each year they even host several races, the largest being the North American Vasa held annually in February. There are also many ski resorts including Mt. Holiday, Shanty Creek, and The Homestead. There are several other resorts only a short dri...
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By Jason LaVanture
(www.BlueLaVaMedia.com)
Get Connected & Capture More Leads with BlueLaVaMedia! The BlueLaVa TxT Connect System is an all new mobile marketing service that uses SMS ("text messaging"). This technology makes property information instantly available on mobile phones and yields lead generation for real estate agents and rental management companies."Text messaging" is the fastest growing form of communication and BlueLaVaMedia, Traverse City's Premier Virtual Tour Company is very excited to offer this unique and powerful marketing tool to you at a very low cost. The BlueLaVa TxT Connect mobile marketing / lead capture system is available 24/7 and works by instantly responding to requests for detailed property information from potential buyers. The Traverse City Real Estate agent simply adds a sign rider with a pro...
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By Cherry Wings Realty, Your Traverse City Michigan Realtor
(Cherry Wings Realty)
I recently attended a training through Bank of America in Traverse City on FHA 203K Rehabilitation Loans.  This program was presented by Corbin Buttleman, Holly Hack and John Klingelsmith. Potential buyers for proeprties in need of repairs are facing significant challenges for financing these days.  The solution to this challenge is the FHA 203K Rehabilitation Financing Loan. Highlights One loan purchase price plus repairs FHA mortgage limits apply for area Minimum rehab $5,000 Health and Safety first Customer desires Value based on after improvement value (loan not to exceed 96.5% of improved value) Convert a one unit to a two, or a two unit back to a SFR Program Requirements Owner occupied only Down Payment 3.5% of sale price plus rehab amount Allows for 6% seller concession Self help...
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By Cherry Wings Realty, Your Traverse City Michigan Realtor
(Cherry Wings Realty)
Women's Council of REALTORS Meeting Announcement Thursday, November 5, 2009 at 11:30 a.m.      Presents...    Doug Luciani - Executive Director Traverse City Chamber of Commerce   Thursday, November 5, 200911:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. TAAR Office/Conference Room   Topics of Discussion include:     State of the State address regarding the Economic Forecast in Northern Michigan.   What is predicted for Traverse City's future economic conditions and forecast of business  Everyone is invited!    Agenda 11:30 - 12:00 noon networking 12:00 noon - 1:00 p.m. Program and lunch (PIZZA)    Cost per WCR Member is $5 Cost for non-WCR Member is $10    Please RSVP to lora@taar.com           TOP   Sincerely,    Craig Witt President, Northern Chapter Women's Council of REALTORS    Doug Luciani      Women's C...
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By Jon Becker, Associate Broker
(Century 21 Northland)
Jon just sold this great home with 3 BR , fenced yard, wooded lot, 2.5 car garage within 5 miles of town for more than asking price!!! Call Jon today for all your Grand Traverse area real estate needs! http://www.c21jb.com/Traverse_City/Michigan/Homes/Traverse_City/Blair_Township/Agent/Listing_1241840.html  
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By Jon Becker, Associate Broker
(Century 21 Northland)
Jon just sold this great in town Traverse City home in just 5 days. Call me for all your Traverse City Real Estate needs!!!! http://www.c21jb.com/Traverse_City/Michigan/Homes/Traverse_City/Traverse_Heights/Agent/Listing_4552762.html  
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