Category: Estate Sales

Tips for Purchasing Your First Home

Before purchasing your first home, you’ll want to focus on a few very important steps of the home buying process. After stabilizing your credit, determining what you can afford, and researching all costs, you’ll be ready to get into the more exciting aspects of choosing your first home. Stabilize Your Credit Your credit score is… Read more »

Our App Will Ease the Bidding Process

According to Think With Google, apps are now an integral part of our daily lives, with people spending an average of 30 hours per month on them. As the common saying goes, “there’s an app for that” and yes indeed we have an app for auctioning. We are thrilled to offer you our Smith &… Read more »

First Time Home Buyers | What You Need To Know About Property Taxes

Before you put a bid on your “affordable” dream home, you have to take into consideration an important factor that can drastically change the affordability of a home: the property taxes. What are property taxes? A property tax (or millage tax) is a levy on property that the owner is required to pay. The tax… Read more »

Buying Your Home At Auction

Benefits, Tips, and Tricks The traditional viewpoint is that homes are bought and sold through a series of open houses, meetings with realtors, house showings, negotiations, home inspections… the list goes on. But there are easier ways to sell and purchase properties! Through real estate auctions, both the buyer and the seller have a much… Read more »

Finding the History of A Home

There has probably been a time when unanswered questions about the history of your home have wavered into your mind. While an inspector can certainly inspect the home’s bone structure, they cannot tell you about the history of the home. Some questions you might be pondering are, who lived here before, what remodeling has been… Read more »

Affordable Farm Land and Used Farm Machinery

Almost all of the mid-west and many parts of the northeast and west coast comprise of beautiful farmland that is responsible for growing and feeding the economy with healthy crops. Owning farmland is very profitable, but finding desirable land can be hard to come by.   Farmland is expensive. Whether prepared for planting or not,… Read more »