Real Estate closing, Who pays for what? - Bill Salvatore, Realty Executives East Valley - 602-999-0952

Who’s gonna pay for that? Real Estate closing costs demystified.

It’s wise to be thinking about your closing costs long before you get involved in a Real Estate transaction. It’s part of your agent’s job to review the HUD1 (a complete accounting of all closing costs) and determine if everything is explained and charges are correct before you sign and close. Of course there are… Read More

(AP Photo/Kristina Barker). Historic Black Hills VA in Hot Springs, S.D. - Bill Salvatore, Realty Executives East Valley - 602-999-0952

Historic VA hospital may be closing

By KEVIN BURBACH Associated Press HOT SPRINGS, S.D. (AP) – Perched atop a bluff in the remote Black Hills, a veterans hospital built of thick blocks of pink sandstone and topped with red-tiled roofs in a Spanish mission style overlooks the tiny town of Hot Springs, South Dakota, and has provided recovering soldiers a bucolic… Read More

Thank You Thursday - Bill Salvatore, Realty Excellence East Valley at Arizona Elite Properties

And our “Thursday Thanks” goes to Home Depot!

I’ve always been a pretty big fan of Home Depot. We used to live 40 minutes from the closest Home Depot so I was thrilled when we moved to our current home and there it was, right around the corner. But I read something recently that made me much more than a fan… “like” has… Read More

Helpful Tips for Home Buyers - Bill Salvatore, Realty Executives East Valley - 602-999-0952

Think it’s just a home inspection? Think again!

From ‘A Heads-Up for Home Buyers‘, 11 Things you might not have thought about. Look left, look right, and look again – Your home purchase contract contains a clause granting you a certain number of days for an inspection period. Do not just schedule a home inspection then sit back and wait for it to… Read More

Tim McGraw give home to Veterans, mortgage free - Bill Salvatore, Realty Executives East Valley - 602-999-0952

Tim McGraw is giving away 36 mortgage-free homes to Veterans – Video

Tim McGraw thanks our Veterans, and we thank Tim McGraw… a great man with a humble purpose. LOS ANGELES, (UPI) — Country music star Tim McGraw is working with Operation Homefront and Chase to give mortgage-free homes to 36 veterans this summer. During the three years that McGraw has collaborated with the organization and bank,… Read More

Feature Heroes Home Advantage - Bill Salvatore, Realty Executives East Valley - 602-999-0952

3 Arizona cities rate high as best spots for veterans

by KTAR.com PHOENIX — Military veterans looking for somewhere to live should take a good look at Arizona. A NerdWallet study ranked cities based on economic opportunity for veterans and three Arizona cities — Goodyear, Sierra Vista and Maricopa — cracked the top 10. Phoenix suburb Goodyear came in third, Sierra Vista, in southern Arizona,… Read More

Eastmark, New Construction Community, Mesa Arizona - Bill Salvatore, Realty Executives East Valley - 602-999-0952

Home Selling Tips – The Internet Numbers Game

Home selling is all about the numbers, but this is hardly a game. Believe it or not I’m not going to harass you about price, not today anyways. The actual numbers in the price of your home matter. In the past, setting a price to end in a 9 was considered a strategic maneuver. Why?… Read More