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Greetings!
The mild weather makes October the perfect month to take advantage of our wonderful amenities in Hot Springs Village. Enjoy your morning coffee on the deck, play golf and tennis, take a hike, go kayaking, boating, or fishing, then enjoy an after dinner cruise around the lake. There is so much to do, you'll have a tough time fitting everything into your itinerary.
Remember, I am here to assist you with all of your real real estate needs.
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Six Tips for Choosing the Best Offer for Your Home
Have a plan for reviewing purchase offers so you don't let the best slip through your fingers.
You've worked hard to get your home ready for sale and to price it properly. With any luck, offers will come quickly. You'll need to review each carefully to determine its strengths and drawbacks and pick one to accept. Here's a plan for evaluating offers.
1. Understand the process.
All offers are negotiable, as your agent will tell you. When you receive an offer, you can accept it, reject it, or respond by asking that terms be modified, which is called making a counteroffer.
2. Set baselines.
Decide in advance what terms are most important to you. For instance, if price is most important, you may need to be flexible on your closing date. Or if you want certainty that the transaction won't fall apart because the buyer can't get a mortgage, require a prequalified or cash buyer.
3. Create an offer review process.
If you think your home will receive multiple offers, work with your agent to establish a time frame during which buyers must submit offers. That gives your agent time to market your home to as many potential buyers as possible, and you time to review all the offers you receive.
4. Don't take offers personally.
Selling your home can be emotional. But it's simply a business transaction, and you should treat it that way. If your agent tells you a buyer complained that your kitchen is horribly outdated, justifying a lowball offer, don't be offended. Consider it a sign the buyer is interested and understand that those comments are a negotiating tactic. Negotiate in kind.
5. Review every term.
Carefully evaluate all the terms of each offer. Price is important, but so are other terms. Is the buyer asking for property or fixtures -- such as appliances, furniture, or window treatments -- to be included in the sale that you plan to take with you?
Is the amount of earnest money the buyer proposes to deposit toward the downpayment sufficient? The lower the earnest money, the less painful it will be for the buyer to forfeit those funds by walking away from the purchase if problems arise.
Have the buyers attach a prequalification or pre-approval letter, which means they've already been approved for financing? Or does the offer include a financing or other contingency? If so, the buyers can walk away from the deal if they can't get a mortgage, and they'll take their earnest money back, too. Are you comfortable with that uncertainty?
Is the buyer asking you to make concessions, like covering some closing costs? Are you willing, and can you afford to do that? Does the buyer's proposed closing date mesh with your timeline?
With each factor, ask yourself: Is this a deal breaker, or can I compromise to achieve my ultimate goal of closing the sale?
6. Be creative.
If you've received an unacceptable offer through your agent, ask questions to determine what's most important to the buyer and see if you can meet that need. You may learn the buyer has to move quickly. That may allow you to stand firm on price but offer to close quickly. The key to successfully negotiating the sale is to remain flexible.
G.M. Filisko is an attorney and award-winning writer who has survived several closings. A frequent contributor to many national publications including Bankrate.com, REALTOR® Magazine, and the American Bar Association Journal, she specializes in real estate, business, personal finance, and legal topics.
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Invite your family and friends to visit Hot Springs Village during their state's week and they will enjoy our amenities at reduced rates.
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Hot Springs Village Homes
Oct/Dec 2015 Issue
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Hot Springs Village, Arkansas
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Hot Springs Village
Entertainment and Special Events
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Farmers' Market
Thursdays
8:00 a.m. - 12:00 noon
at Grove Park
Basecamp
Ouachita Rod & Gun Club
Ouachita Sports Trail
"New" Outlets of Little Rock to open October 16, 2015
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2014 Diamond Award Winner
"Over $8 Million in Sales"
BJ Conner, GRI, RCC
Associate Broker
501-915-2297
bjconner@remax.net
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Visit our conveniently located office at 1400 DeSoto Boulevard
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Hot Springs Village Visitor Apps
are available for downloading.
Benefits of the free apps include:
- Community event calendar and tickets
- Book tee times or link to our golf course apps featuring scorecards, pro golf tips and more
- Explore local attractions
- Real-time social media interaction
- Village map, attraction directions and GPS-based car locator feature
- HSV photo gallery
- Rate your stay survey
- Weather checker
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our new HSV Visitor App today. Search "Hot Springs Village" for the free App in the Apple Store then download. For Android smart phones and tablets, search and download from the Play Store.
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BJ'S FEATURED LISTINGS FOR OCTOBER
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4 Bd., 3.5 Ba, 3,680 Sq.Ft.
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This one level home has everything one could imagine. Beautiful wooded location on the 13th fairway of Balboa Golf Course. 4 bedrooms and 3.5 baths, gourmet kitchen with an abundance of cabinets, skylights, granite countertops, breakfast room and a hearth room with 2-way fireplace with new gas logs. There is a large media/game room and an oversized attached garage and a sizeable area below for the golf cart & storage and is handicap accessible. New roof in 2009 new carpet in 2015. You must see this one.
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3 Bd., 3 Ba, 3,942 Sq.Ft.
This all brick 3 BR, 3 Bath beauty is located on a cul-de-sac on the 13th fairway of Diamante Golf Course. The home has everything including volume ceilings, huge game room, jetted tub, separate shower in master suite, split floor plan with Jack-n-Jill Guest Bath, skylights, Pro Ice Maker, Sub-Zero Refrig., many built-ins, lots of storage, beautifully landscaped with irrigation system and large circular drive. Golf Cart Conveys with accepted contract. Currently dues are approximately $530 per month.
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$329,000
3 Bd., 3 Ba. 2,868 Sq. Ft.
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Beautiful one level Diamante Golf Course Home built in 2003, located on the 18th tee with fantastic views of #17 Pond and Fountain offering lots of privacy. This home has almost everything including granite counter tops, tile floors, formal Dining Room, Breakfast Room, Two family rooms, study, wet bar, three car garage, sunroom (recently added) and includes split bedrooms, fantastic kitchen, volume ceilings, situated on a 3/4 acre lot. Call Listing agent for a private showing...
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$319,000
2 Bd, 2.5 Ba. 2,457 sq ft.
Beautiful all brick home located on the 11th fairway of the Prestigious Diamante Golf Course & Country Club. Perfect setting at the end of a quiet cul-de-sac with common property on one side. Completely renovated with Wood Floors, Open Floor Plan, Granite, New Appliances, Wine Cooler, and freshly painted inside and out! HUGE Deck partially covered, Water Feature, Circle Driveway. Amenities include Volume Ceilings, Split Bedrooms, Golf Cart Storage area, sprinkler system and much more. Call for Showing!!
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$309,000
3 Bd, 3 Ba. 2,390 sq. ft.
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Breath-Taking Views from almost Every Room with this one level, Lake Coronado Home with Covered Boat Dock-just a short distance from the home, in Deep Water, on a .66 Acre lot with 234 feet of lake frontage with East Exposure on a Private Cul-De-Sac . This BIG LAKE VIEW home offers 3-Bedrooms, 3 baths, tons of Built-Cabinets, Walk-in Closet & Shower, Jetted Tub, Sunroom, Central Vacuum, Sky Lights, Bay Windows, Low Maintenance Yard, with Heated & Cooled Storage Under Home. New HVAC & water heater in 2014.
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$189,000
3 Bd, 2.5 Ba, 1,764 Sq.Ft.
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Great Living Near Balboa Lake with this charming one-level home located just minutes from the Balboa and East Gates. This 1996 built Dryvet home has it all-crown molding, vaulted and tray ceilings, floor to ceiling windows, built-ins, hardwood floors, 2-1/2 baths, separate dining room, breakfast room and breakfast bar, split bedrooms, large pantry, large master bath with jetted tub, step-in shower plus a LARGE workshop under the house to die for. Newer roof & 2015 Heat Pump. Come see this cream puff...
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Zucchini Bread
Ingredients 
3 cups all-purpose flour
1 tsp salt
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp baking powder
3 tsp ground cinnamon
3 eggs
1 cup vegetable oil
2˝ cups white sugar
3 tsp vanilla extract
2 cups zucchini, grated
1 cup walnuts chopped
Directions
Grease and flour two 8 inch bread pans. Preheat oven to 325 degrees F.
Sift together flour, salt, baking powder, soda, and cinnamon.
Beat together eggs, oil, vanilla, and sugar. Add sifted ingredients and beat well. Stir in zucchini and nuts until well combined. Pour into prepared pans.
Bake for 40 to 60 minutes, or until toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Cool in pan on rack for 20 minutes. Remove bread from pan, cool and serve.
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