News and Insights

It’s pretty easy to just rent a dumpster and trash everything when you’re renovating or tearing down a property. 

And when you’re remodeling a kitchen or bathroom, the first thought is to head to a gleaming showroom to shop. 

But by looking to salvage warehouses and pre-demolition companies, you could pocket some cash, find building materials at a steep discount, and keep waste out of landfills. 

On the face of it, mandatory energy audits may seem ideal for giving home buyers a grip on a prospective home’s energy costs and a way for them to make apples-to-apples comparisons among properties. 

Some city and state governments have put forward proposals that would require homeowners to get an audit or energy score before selling a home. 

But there are unintended consequences of mandatory energy audits, and REALTOR® organizations have fought against such measures in the handful of places that have proposed them. 

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If you’ve never been to Chicago, you don’t know how lucky you are to get to experience it for the first time during the 2017 REALTORS® Conference & Expo NAR Expo & Convention (November 3-6) at Chicago’s McCormick Place.

To stage or not to stage? The National Association of REALTORS’® 2017 Profile of Home Staging has some answers.