For Sellers
Why are you motivated to sell?
A savvy agent will ask you some questions about your decision to sell your home.
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These answers may be self-evident to you, but it's certainly worth a discussion before anyone is talking about price and marketing and such. Of course, how much you realize in your pocket from a sale might enter into your thinking. But we feel that all the reasons financial, geographical, and emotional need to be explored by the broker and client early on.
One of the first things we should discuss is the best time to list your home. Timing matters—a lot. The real estate market ebbs and flows with the seasons, and a knowledgeable broker will understand how to navigate those changes. With the right timing, you can reduce stress and increase your chances of a successful sale. Be sure to ask me when the market is most favorable in your area.
This is often one of the most overlooked aspects of selling a home—even by brokers. Before entering serious discussions about a sale, it’s essential to evaluate your current and projected financial situation. I specialize in assessing how the net proceeds from your sale will impact your overall financial picture.
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For Investors
Do you want to buy a home, or build wealth?
I'm not sure what I was taught, but what I learned was this: go to work, a lot. Make as much money as you can, and save that money as cash. And then someday retire, and live off of your paper investments; your IRA, and 401K.
Along the way, buy a home or homes and build equity in them, but by and large, save your cash.
That worked for some people, maybe a quite a few. But what I want to present to you is that isn't the only way to do it. What I want to show you is another way to get ahead. I would humbly like to present another way to build wealth. A method that's building wealth faster and with more safety than other methods being touted out there.
Our methods impart using the equity in your home (s) to build equity faster and safer using moderate leverage to increase not just return, but also your lifestyle balance. All while decreasing risk.
I know your advisors at Schwab and Fidelity aren't presenting this to you. And that's why I feel compelled to present it to you.
What we do here at Front Range Real Estate is teach you the value of ROE; the return on equity. Using some basic concepts of commercial real estate as adapted to residential real estate, we can show you how to reach your goals in life with as much or as little risk as you desire. And we show you how to do that faster and cheaper than the prescribed way of building a portfolio of paper assets that have a hidden underlayer of expenses that you never see.
To be sure, yes you will own rental properties in our scenarios. But no, you won't be cleaning toilets and fixing roofs yourself unless you want to. You will be providing a much-needed service to your community and your neighbors. And you get to decide how hands on you want to be.
You get to decide whether you want to be in LTR (long term rentals), MTR (medium term rentals - like those offered to visiting nurses and such), or STR (like VRBO and AIRBNB vacation properties). All three of these strategies have their advantages and disadvantages. All three of them are very viable in Colorado. Our aim is to present the alternatives to you and help you decide which makes more sense to you based on your family's needs.
1) Review & Realign Goals
2) Have a Holistic View of Your Portfolio
3) Analyze Individual Investments
4) Explore Opportunities with Scenario Modeling
5) Create Your Portfolio Architecture Action Plan
We'll enact these five steps together, and decide what your portfolio architecture should be; whether an entire portfolio of properties or just your primary residence.
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Bill Fairchild