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The Power of Property Presentation

Property presentation is so important! A common question people ask is, “Can we sell our home as it is?” The answer...Yes, you can sell it as it is, but you're just going to take a huge hit on the price. However, if you invest a small amount of money on the right things, an average house can be turned into a top dollar listing.

We just completed the transformation shown in the video here and all it basically took was some new carpet, new paint, staging, and professional photography! Take a second to look at both of those pictures. Which house would you rather buy?

This is what we call a “Top Dollar Transformation!”

With Morris Real Estate Group, we take everyday homes and turn them into top dollar listings. If you or anyone you know is thinking about painting, looking for new carpet, or in need of any kind of contractors, let us know! We can get you discounts and connected with great local business!

We’ve got an account over at Sherwin-Williams so we can get you 40% off paint!

If you're thinking about getting your home ready for sale or you know someone who’s thinking about getting a home ready for sale, we'd love to take great care of them.

You can contact us at: 253-292-2221.

Contact us today if you are looking to receive a mind-blowing Top Dollar Transformation! This is the power of presentation! Hope everyone is doing well, have a great day, and I’ll talk to you soon!

-Travis Morris

Top Dollar Transformation

Top Dollar Transformation by Travis Morris

Check out this beautiful Top Dollar Transformation that we just did with this once beat up house. We offered this home before the remodel to a couple of our buyers at around $430,000 and they didn’t go for it. We helped the sellers and they put about $35,000 into a remodel. Fast forward and we sold it the first weekend, over list price, with multiple offers for $500,000!! They doubled their investment money!!

How did we do it?

Interior: new baseboards and trim, and deep cleaning throughout
Family room: new flooring and paint, and replaced a broken window
Kitchen: changed out the florescent lights, installed new cabinets, moved the refrigerator out of the way for more counter space, and added subway tile
Master bedroom: new paint, flooring, and light fixtures
Master bathroom: deep cleaning
Hall bathroom: installed a barn door
Yard: removed the shed, sticker bushes/ivy, fixed up the fence, cleaned up the flower beds, added beauty bark, mowed, and pressure washed the walkway and driveway
Exterior: painted, and replaced the garage door

Vendor tips -

SJ Paint & Renovation – Alan (206-331-7507)
High Tide Interiors (staging and design consultations) – Nicole (253-777-7356)
Sherwin Williams – use our account name to save 40% on most paint

Top Dollar Transformations are our passion and have become our specialty. Know anyone thinking about selling their home? Need help with where to start or want to make the most amount of money out of your home? Give us a call. We would like to take great care of y’all.

~ Travis Morris

253-319-3757

teammorris@morrishomesales.com

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How to get lucky in this market!

Hey guys! I just wanted to talk to you about the market that we're in right now. If you've been paying attention at all, you know this market can seem a bit bonkers! If you're trying to buy a home, or you know anybody that's trying to buy a home, you know how difficult it sounds. Luckily, I’m here to help!

Number one tip: Hire the right real estate team to represent you.

You’re going to want to look for someone who knows the tactics that it takes to present a great offer and grab the attention of not only the listing agent but the seller as well.
You want someone who will put you in winning contention to secure your interest in a property.

We're doing a quick 30-minute webinar on March 18th at 7:00 p.m. This webinar will feature my friend Sarah Riley over at Fairway Mortgage. She and I are going to get together on zoom and talk about the main tips and tactics that we use to help get the winning offers of our clients accepted! Join us!

If you or anyone you know is thinking about buying a home, selling a home, or investing in real estate in the next 6 to 12 months we would love to take great care of them! Don't hesitate to reach out and schedule a time to interview us for yourself. Take care!

~ Travis Morris

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Recap on 2020 and 2021 thoughts!

2020 and 2021 Real Estate

Happy February! Check out our 2020 real estate recap in the video and graphic!

Our predictions for 2021 include a raising of interest rates to hopefully level in the 3's, just like the beginning of 2020 (however, we can't fully predict). Because supply is low, we believe we will continue to see Sellers capitalizing on fantastic prices. Even though we can see demand remaining high, it is still a great buying environment for buyers as you can't beat leveraging your money to these low rates of 3%!! If you have questions about this or if you want to know how this is going to affect your real estate goals for 2021, give us a call! We would love to talk with you! Happy 2021!

Investing in Real Estate

Charissa and Todd Frerichs

0 Vacancy Property Management

206-486-4255

hello@0vacancy.com

https://www.0vacancy.com/

Investing in Real Estate

"How many millionaires do you know who have become wealthy by investing in savings accounts? I rest my case" - Robert G Allen

"Ninety percent of all millionaires become so through owning real estate" - Andrew Carnegie

Happy December, everybody! This month's focus is going to be investing in real estate. We are on part eight of the Win Make Give - Wealth Series by Ben Kenney. This series talks about a lot of different investment opportunities, including businesses, however this month we're going to just focus on real estate because that's what we do!

Our guest this month for the webinar is Charissa and Todd Frerichs who own 0 Vacancy Property Management! They have years of experience, manage over 300 doors, own properties themselves, and we refer them to all our clients - clearly, they do a fantastic job!

The talking points will be:

Landlord basics.

The tips and tricks on how to avoid the nightmare tenant situations.

Strategies for owning rental properties with real-life examples.

I know a lot of you have been waiting for this so please SIGN UP and SHARE THIS! We will see you on December 11th!

~ Emily Morris

Pay Less Taxes

Nicole Fisher, CPA, MS (Tax)
Vice President
Jeff Baker and Associates, PS
Certified Public Accountants
253-531-7114 (phone)
253-536-8913 (fax)
nicolefisher@jeffbakerassociates.com
www.jeffbakerassociates.com

Pay Less Taxes

Happy November y'all! Our topic this month is Paying Less Taxes, and this is coming from the Wealth Series by Ben Kenney's Podcast called Win Make Give. If you haven't signed up for the series, please do (see below). This Pay Less Taxes part is the meatiest podcast and worksheet yet, it's part seven and the printable workbook is over 30 pages. It has a lot in there stemming from the Tax-Free Wealth book written by Tom Wheelhouse, which is fitting since he is the guest on this part seven in the podcast. He is the personal CPA to Robert Kiyosaki who is the author of Rich Dad Poor Dad.

A few quick tax tips:

Did you know the tax code is like 6,000 pages, listing pages, and pages of how to not pay taxes and some CPAs only use maybe the first 30 pages? Use a CPA who uses all the pages!

If you own a business, you can pay your kids up to $12,000 a year and they don’t have to pay federal taxes!

1031 Exchanges: if you buy a home and live in it for less than two years and then sell it, you must pay capital gains on that equity earned. However, if you do a 1031 Exchange you can take the equity and use it as a down payment on the next house/investment saving thousands of dollars.

At the very end, Ben Kinney lists off about 30 different kinds of trusts that are available to help one reduce their tax liability. Some may require a net worth in the multi-millionaire range, but you don't know until you ask!

Our webinar this month is going to be on the topic of "Pay Less Taxes" with my CPA, Nicole Fisher. Join us!

Next month, we're going to talk about real estate investing and I'm so excited about that one! We're going to have some awesome guests. Keep your eye out for more info to come!

~ Emily Morris