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Building Your Home, Selling Tips, Staying On Top

[5 Apr 2013 | No Comment ]

With great homebuilders, immediate deliveries, and an amazing community Owners Club, it’s always a good idea to bring your clients to Highland Woods when they are looking for a new home. We have a few offers currently available that sweeten the visit even more:
First Welcome Gift*
We love when you bring clients to visit new homes at Highland Woods. And we want to help make your visit even sweeter. In April, show your clients a new Highland Woods home, and we will give both you and your clients a sweet little …

Featured, Featured Builder, Staying On Top

[25 Mar 2013 | No Comment ]

King’s Court builds beautiful custom and semi-custom homes at Highland Woods in Elgin. These homes come with two year warranties in the Waterford and Reserve neighborhoods. Prices begin at $307,000.
Exciting things are happening at King’s Court. They have recently released more lots in the Waterford neighborhood and have a total of 44 available, including lots with lookout and walkout basements, cul-de-sac lots, and lots that back to the pond.
Two new floorplans are now available:
The Chelsea
This 3 bedroom ranch offers a master in a private section of the house on the …

Realtor Events and Offers, Staying On Top

[12 Mar 2013 | No Comment ]

We love when you bring clients to visit our new homes at Highland Woods, and so we would like to offer a gift to you and your clients on their first visit to Highland Woods. Just stop by our Owners Club and register. This also gives your client the chance to check out the amazing amenities of the Owners Club, including a fitness center, triple loop water slide, kids splash park, free-form resort-style pool, and courts for basketball, tennis and sand volleyball.
First visits are always sweet, since home shoppers fall …

Selling Tips, Staying On Top

[26 Feb 2013 | No Comment ]

I am not a huge basketball fan, but while watching the NBA all-star game with my husband, I noticed Blake Griffin was a powerful dunker—by far the best on the court. He would dunk, and then the other team’s stars would do the same but look weak by comparison. I asked my husband why Griffin made it look so easy, and he explained that Griffin is strong and can jump so high. I asked if someone could get to the NBA by just being good at one thing, specializing, and …

Staying On Top, Valuable Technology

[20 Feb 2013 | No Comment ]

As a realtor, you have a lot of small things that you do all the time—open lock boxes, measure rooms and furniture, consider mortgage costs, and more. Each of these things requires some time and often an additional tool. What if you could consolidate the tools required into your one ultimate piece of equipment—your smartphone? We’ve rounded up a few free and cheap apps that will help you have all the tools you need in one convenient place.
Flashlight
We’re sure you have been there, dealing with a difficult lock box after …

Realtor Events and Offers, Staying On Top

[13 Feb 2013 | No Comment ]

We love when you bring clients to visit new homes at Highland Woods. First visits are always sweet, since home shoppers fall in love with the community, the beautiful new move-in ready homes available, as well as the variety of homebuilders available to build your client’s dream home. And we want to help make your visit even sweeter. This month, show your clients a new Highland Woods home, and we will give both you and your clients a sweet little gift to thank you for your visit.
Just stop by our …

Staying On Top, Valuable Technology

[6 Feb 2013 | No Comment ]

They say “a picture is worth a thousand words,” but sometimes you have even more to say about homes for sale than what an image alone will show. Imagine being able to call out special features of a home that might not be obvious from a picture by itself, such as finishes, room sizes, ceiling heights, appliance brands—features that aren’t easy to display in a picture. We recently found a free web tool called “Thinglink” that allows you to add hotspots to any image so users can click to find …

Building Your Home, Staying On Top

[23 Jan 2013 | No Comment ]

Two new designer homes are under construction at Highland Woods in Elgin. The homes are beautiful, spacious, and perfect for your clients who are looking to purchase homes in the mid $400s. Floorplans for both homes are below.

Featured Builder, Immediate Deliveries, Staying On Top

[9 Jan 2013 | No Comment ]

When it comes to shopping for a new home, photos are important. Your clients like to virtually walk through a home before visiting—so we have put together beautiful pictures that show how bright, open, and spacious the new Overstreet home at Highland Woods is. This home is available for $419,900. Let us take you for a walk through the 4 bedroom, 3.5 bathroom home, and you can see if it is the perfect space your clients have been looking for.

Staying On Top, Valuable Technology

[18 Dec 2012 | No Comment ]

The folks who brought you the Open Home Pro iPad app for collecting buyer data at open houses have now launched a new iPhone app for $2.99 that makes it simple for realtors to create and post new listings online. Using the app, you can take pictures, enter standard information, and then share new listings on Facebook, via email, or post it to Craigslist. In the future, they hope to add Zillow and Trulia to the postings list.

The app is meant to help realtors create beautiful listings in addition to …