Making Your Home Search Easier

Looking for a new home is exhilarating, but when you are checking out areas you have heard of but haven't been too before, it can be very challenging.

We have two suggestions to help ease the anxieties that can accompany a home search across the Hudson:

1. WWW.SOMAOPENHOUSES.COM is an example of one of 30 town-specific websites that offer one of the most comprehensive lists of open houses and equally important, a Quick-Find map to help locate the homes you are interested in seeing. Let's face it, driving around is fun and useful, but stopping into a home that is significantly over your budget, can prove frustrating. www.somaopenhouses.com gives you the opportunity to see what homes are budget friendly and where they may be located. This is also available as an APP on the iTunes APP store: NEW JERSEY OPEN HOUSES and is free.

2. Choose a local expert to help you! While you may be doing a lot of searching online, information can either be misleading or out of date; this is where an agent earns their keep. As one tip, we help our clients search by monthly budget (which is technically how you are reviewed by a lender) which is much harder to do online without bringing a calculator or pad & pencil to accompany you. We can also help you see beyond the initial appearance of the home or give you advice you might not have considered that could turn a lemon into lemonade. Lastly, get a tour of the area to see schools, parks, public transportation and other amenities because you aren't just buying a home, you are buying into a community.

Mark Slade
Keller Williams
917.797.5059
Good Homes

Selling a Maplewood/South Orange/Millburn/Short Hills area home involves many steps and having an experienced Maplewood New Jersey Real Estate Agent and Realtor®, specializing in the Bedroom Communities of New York City in Essex/Union County— Millburn, Short Hills, Montclair, West Orange, South Orange, Livingston, Maplewood, Springfield, Summit, Madison, Chatham, Scotch Plains, Fanwood, Cranford and Westfield--by your side will make the transaction run a lot smoother. I would love to be your Maplewood/South Orange New Jersey Area Real Estate Professional! I assist both buyers and sellers in the Bedroom Communities of New York City, mostly served by NJ Transit’s Mid-Town Direct Train Lines, offering commutes of 45minute or less to NY Penn Station, with either the purchase and or sale of residential real estate.


As an Accredited Buyer’s Agent (ABR), I have received special training to guide and educate you through the entire home buying process. From start to finish, I listen to your needs and desires in what you would like and take the information you give me to find you home. My GO-TO team can provide you the best in Real Estate advice with regard to attorney choices, Home Inspectors and Mortgage Loan Officers


I am also a Luxury specialist (CLHMS), I have received special training to guide and educate you through the entire home buying and selling process. Not only does this extra training help me better understand this upper echelon in real estate, its benefit include a special luxury website: www.njluxhomes.com and a corresponding worldwide luxury network that helps to put luxury buyers and sellers together.


As your Maplewood/South Orange/Millburn/Short Hills/Essex/Union County New Jersey listing agent I am well versed on as your local expert in all things in the Maplewood and South Orange area Real Estate Market. You can expect personalized service that includes a detailed consultation on how to best position your Mid-Town Direct home to be competitive in today’s market with training to provide my clients with an in-depth Advanced Comparative Market analysis, and advice on staging. As my office’s technology officer as well as both a Zillow Platinum Premier and Trulia Premier agent, I use the latest and most up-to-date marketing methods to get your home in front of as many buyers as possible. Being your New Jersey Real Estate Agent and Realtor ® not only involves just finding the home or selling the home, but being your guide, negotiator, advisor and advocate and making sure that your needs and goals are met. Being your New Jersey Essex/Union County area Realtor® (with a little bit of Morris County thrown in for good measure) is one of my truest passions, and “Helping You Find Your Dream Home” is my number one priority.

Don’t forget These Helpful Sites:

For Open Houses:
www.maplewoodnjopenhouses.com
and
www.southorangenjopenhouses.com

For Homes For Sale:
www.latestmaplewoodhomes.com
and
www.latestsouthorangehomes.com

Mark Slade