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Selling a House with a Waterlogged Crawl Space in Massachusetts

Selling a House with Water in the Crawl Space in Massachusetts

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Three inches of standing water under a Chicopee ranch isn’t a crisis. It’s a Tuesday in March. Snowmelt hits ground that’s still frozen, so the water moves sideways until it finds the lowest gap in your foundation. I’ve crawled under houses from the Connecticut line out past the Quabbin, and a wet crawl space rarely … Continued
Is a Kitchen Remodel Worth It Before Selling My Home in Massachusetts

Should I Remodel My Kitchen Before Selling

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A $28,000 kitchen can add $32,000 to your sale price, or nothing at all. The granite you pick matters less than the house around it, the block it sits on, and how soon you need to be gone. A new kitchen won’t push your price much past what nearby homes sell for. If you have … Continued
How Soon Can I Sell My House After Chapter 7 in Massachusetts

How Soon After Chapter 7 Bankruptcy Can I Sell My House

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How soon after Chapter 7 can I sell my house? I hear that question a lot, and the answer starts with what filing actually does. A Chapter 7 filing doesn’t hand your house to anybody. For a few months, though, your home sits inside a legal container called the bankruptcy estate, and a court-appointed trustee … Continued
What Is a Contingent Home Massachusetts

What Does Contingent Mean When Buying or Selling a House

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What Does Contingent Mean in Real Estate? A seller signed an offer on a Thursday afternoon and told her sister the house was sold. Nine days later, an inspector pulled a cover plate and found cloth-wrapped wiring behind the plaster. The buyer walked. That’s how a contingent contract can come apart. Contingent means a seller … Continued
How to Sell a Rental Property Without Paying Taxes Massachusetts

How to Sell Rental Property Without Paying Capital Gains Tax

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A landlord called me in August about a duplex he’d owned since the nineties. He wanted a fast closing. Then his accountant ran the numbers on what he’d owe, and the whole conversation changed shape. When you sell rental property, you don’t pay just one tax. You’re usually facing three or four of them stacked … Continued
Tips for Selling a House on Facebook Marketplace In Massachusetts

How to Sell a House on Facebook Marketplace

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Most sellers I talk to assume the platform is for old furniture and used bikes. Deciding to sell a house on Facebook Marketplace sounds too casual, like you’re asking the neighbors to make an offer over the back fence. Plenty of homeowners try it anyway. The results range from genuinely useful to maddening, and what … Continued
How to get a free house appraisal Massachusetts

How To Get Your House Appraised For Free In Massachusetts

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Most homeowners in Massachusetts have already paid for a valuation they never asked for. Their town’s assessor keeps a property value on file. Their lender ran one at closing. Zillow has spit out three more since, and none of them agree. Want to get your house appraised for free in Massachusetts? Before you spend a … Continued
Can One Owner Sell a Jointly Owned Property in Massachusetts

Can a Jointly Owned Property Be Sold by One Owner in Massachusetts

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A house sits in Ludlow. Two siblings each own half. One wants to list it before spring. The other won’t return a call. Sound familiar? Co-ownership fights play out across Massachusetts every week, and the question is always the same. Can one owner sell a jointly owned property without the other? No, not directly. There’s … Continued
How Does Medicaid Find Out If You Sell Your Home in Massachusetts

How Will Medicaid Know if I Sell My House

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Sell the house while you are on Medicaid and the proceeds turn into countable assets overnight. Enough cash in the bank pushes you past the asset limit. Reinvesting within the same calendar month into another exempt asset can protect eligibility. Buying a replacement primary residence is one path. Paying qualified medical expenses is another. Timing … Continued
What Happens If a Seller Declines to Close In Massachusetts

What Happens if a Seller Refuses to Close on a Real Estate Deal

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The buyer has boxes stacked in the living room and movers booked for Saturday. Three days out, the seller stops answering the phone. No reason, no offer to talk, just gone. It happens more often than most people in real estate care to admit, sometimes within hours of the closing table, and everybody involved has … Continued
MLS Listing Costs In Massachusetts

How Much Does It Cost to List on MLS in Massachusetts

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Plenty of Massachusetts sellers work this out too late. The listing fee was only the start. By the time they’re at the closing table in a Brookline attorney’s office, the settlement sheet looks nothing like the budget they built. Knowing the real cost of getting your home onto the MLS, and everything that trails behind … Continued
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