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| Country Club Plaza Condo | | Kansas City, MO 64112 | | MLS#: | 1800960 | | Price: | $799,000 | | Bedrooms: | 2 | | Full Bathrooms: | 2 | | Half Bathrooms: | 0 |
COMPLETELY REMODELLED! UNIT #801 WITH NORTH & WEST VIEWS.APPROX 2100SF ELEGANT PLANTATION SHUTTERS,ALL WINDOWS. PANELED BR2 USED AS DEN WITH FIREPLACE & BUILT-INS. FORMAL LR W/SEE THRU FRPL. EAT IN KITCHEN W/CHERRY CABS & CENTER ISLAND. FABULOUS CUSTOM MASTER BATH. WALK-INS.INDOOR RESERVED PARKING, PARTY ROOM,EXERCISE ROOM W/STEAM BATH. |
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| Age | 21-30 Years | | Area | 202 | | Available Amenities | Building Maint
Exercise Room
Lawn Maintenance
Party Room
Security System
Snow Removal
Trash Pick Up
| | County | MJA | | Garage Type | In Building
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|  | | Garage/Parking Spaces | 2 | | HOA Amount | 850 | | HOA DUE Frequency | MO | | HOA Dues Include | Parking
Storage
Building Maint
Exercise Room
Lawn Maintenance
Management
Party Room
Snow Removal
Trash Pick Up
| | Sub Property Type | Condo/Loft |
| | | Subdivision | Townsend Place | | Total SqFt | 2,013 | | Total Taxes | 11088 | | Year Built | 1989 |
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| # of Fireplaces | 2 | | Architecture | Traditional | | Basement Description | Other
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| Construction | Brick Veneer
Concrete
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| | | Cooling | Central Electric | | Dining Area | Eat-In Kitchen
Formal Dining
| | Equipment | Dishwasher
Double Oven
Down Draft Range
Hood/Fan
Rng/Oven- Built In
Rng/Oven- Gas
| | Exterior Features | Porch
Thermal Windows
| | Fireplace Description | Kitchen
Living Room
See Through
Study/Library
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| | | Floor Plan | Other
Ranch
| | Heating | Forced Air Gas | | Roof | Other |
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| Bedroom 1 | Builtins,Fireplace,H,Shades-b | | Bedroom 2 SqFt | 169 | |
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| Dining Room | H | | Dining Room SqFt | 150 | |
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| Kitchen | Builtins,Fireplace,H,Island-k,Shades-b |
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| Living Room | Builtins,Fireplace,H,Shades-b | | Living Room SqFt | 342 | | Master Bathroom | Skylight | |
| Master Bedroom | Builtins,V-ceilng,H,Wlkclst | | Master Bedroom SqFt | 252 | |
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| Other Room Type | Balcony/Loft
Den/Study
Formal Living Room
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38 Kansas City Neighbordhood and Real Estate Reports featuring Olathe, Overland Park, Leawood, Gardner, Lenexa, Shawnee, Prairie Village, Mission Hills and Johnson Count, Kansas.
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The Online Kansas City Blog is associated with the Kansas City Real Estate Network
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Kansas City Luxury Home on 10 Acres4 bedroom, 5 bathroom 2 story with a walkout finished basement 3949 square foot home on 10 acre horse property
Retreat to 10 gorgeous acres! Wide open main with hardwoods, plush carpet underfoot. Wood fireplace, eat in kitchen and formal dining, daylight walkout finished basement! Huge bedrooms! Stocked pond,fenced pasture, 36x50 metal pole barn, porch,2 horse stalls,electricity,water and two 12 ft drive-thru doors to fit an RV. All electric mechanicals.
For more information including address, viewing multiple pics and a virtual tour, go to: Horse PropertyHome marketed by: Dowell Taggart Team of RE/MAX Premier Realty
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Kansas City Split Level Home with a Finished Basement3 bedroom, 3 bathroom split level home with a finished basement Awesome media room and roomy kitchen 1600 square feet
GET READY TO MOVE IN! This spacious front to back sits on a terrific lot. Hardwood floors in kitchen underscore quiet elegance. Oversized pantry, ample counter space & cabinet storage. Livingroom features vaulted ceiling and beautiful fireplace. Finished daylight basement would make a perfect media room. Sub basement for storage space. |
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For more information including address, viewing multiple pics and a virtual tour, go to: Kansas City Split Level HomeHome marketed by: Dowell Taggart Team of RE/MAX Premier Realty
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The feeling of owning your own home is wonderful, especially for those couples that are first time home buyers; however, there are certain problems that can arise for real estate owners, the main one being foreclosure due to lack of payments.
When buying a home you do not expect to lose your job, a hidden bill to emerge, or a lack of money in your bank account, you expect to be able to make the payments just like you did the first few months of owning the real estate.
There are several ways of getting out of foreclosure, not many involve keeping your home. The best way to make sure the foreclosure does not appear on your credit report is to sale your real estate before the foreclosure is processed. If you choose to sell your real estate, the moment that the contract is signed by another individual the process of the foreclosure can be delayed, even if the home is already up for auction.
Foreclosures normally result in the real estate being sold under market value. This makes selling your home during a foreclosure, a better way out. If you sell your home, you can list it for market value and in return make enough money off the sale to pay your mortgage loan off and possibly find another place to live. The protection of your credit record is vital, most United States citizens never recover their excellent credit score after a foreclosure, thus making it important never to have one show up on your credit report.
During the foreclosure auction of real estate, you and your family have already heard the term vacate the premises, but if you choose to sell before the foreclosure, you will be able to stay in the home until the buyer asks you to vacate, which is normally thirty to sixty days after the sales contract was signed. In these thirty to sixty days, it is advised to plan ahead and find another place to live, as well as how you are going to be transporting your personal items and furniture from one place to the next.
No one ever wants to sell their home, especially if they have children and it is hard transferring them while in school, but at some point in your life you have to do what is best for you and your family. Keeping your credit record clean and safely insuring the new real estate that you purchase will be paid for will help your family in the long run when it comes to future foreclosure.
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 Ranch home that backs to valley Inground swimming pool on estate cul-de-sac lot Walkout finished basement Covered deck overlooks pool Spacious kitchen with huge center island 3 car side entry garage  | Details |  |  | |  |  | | Address: 30814 w 85th Terrace Type: Residential Style: Ranch Bedrooms: 4 Bathrooms: 4 Suite: No Living Area: 3,194 square feet Year Built: 2005
More Details | | | Description | | | | | | | METICULOUSLY MAINTAINED! Reverse 1.5 story, 3 car side entry garage, in-ground pool, 1 acre estate lot! Gourmand's dream kitchen, custom cabinetry, dual ovens, upgraded appliances, walk-in pantry, new hardwoods. Covered Trex deck! Master suite with walk-in, custom mutli-head full body shower with unbelievable tile accents. Finished basement.
Basement with 4th bedroom, second kitchen, living room and fireplace, hobby shop, full bath, plenty of storage. Beautiful home located behind 20+ acre farm, wonderfully maintained by detail oriented seller. High efficiency HVAC. Riding mower, custom sound system for pool and many extras negotiable
More Description | | | | Brokered and Advertised by RE/MAX Premier Realty - Overland Park, Olathe, Gardner, Lenexa, Leawood, Shawnee & Kansas City LID 56366431 | | | Our client expect facts, not fiction. Despite advertising claims to the contrary, the Internet is NOT an experienced Real Estate Professional. It cannot consult, counsel, advise and have knowledge of market conditions and laws. Furthermore, data by itself can be very misleading. To obtain an accurate interpretation of any information you're receiving on line, please contact the Dowell Taggart Team | RE/MAX sells more homes than any other real estate company.For a reason...should we talk?Another blog post written by:
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Zillow is like Katie Horner - Kansas City Home Buyers and the media should ignore Zillows, Zestimates.
It reminds me of the overzealous and overly excited Meteorologist, Katie Horner, from Channel 5 news. She would always interrupt a tv show at its climax and start jumping up and down with excitement about the horrendous tornado coming toward Kansas City. It seemed like she came on everyday during the spring to announce the next big one. I've lived in in Kansas City nearly all of my life and yet to see a tornado in Kansas City. It seemed though, Katie believed a tornado would hit Kansas City everyday. After a while, most people including myself got tired of the antics and tuned her out.
There is a saying with many of my friends that goes something like this, "Where else can a person be wrong at their job over 75% of the time and still get paid?"
Since this blog post is not about meterologist, I will get going to my main point, Zillow.
It's important to understand what Zillow is and what it can be. If you live in Overland Park or Olathe, you should familiarize yourself with the ABOUT ZESTIMATES tab on Zillow.com.
Here's what you should know
In Olathe and Overland Park, Zillow Zestimates can be off by more than 20% 66% of the time, according to Zillow's website.
In Overland Park and Olathe, Kansas, Zillow uses a proprietary formula that includes physical attributes about the home, the county tax assessment and prior and current transactions to provide its Zestimate. Zillow actually gives themselves 1 star in Kansas for this information. One star out of a possible 4 star "valuation." I wonder this... If Four Stars is their best evaluation what does 1 star mean? How accurate is a 1 star opinion versus a 4 star opinion I wonder. If a 4 star opinion is a "FAIR ZESTIMATE." I'm guessing one star means UNFAIR ZESTIMATE. I dunno.
Here's my opinion after reviewing actual sales of 25 Overland Park and Olathe homes that have sold in the past 60 days.
The Zestimate from Zillow was lower than the actual sale 90% of the time. In addition, 25% of the time, the Zestimate was off by over 10% of the actual sales price.
Although, Kansas City has a 1 star and uses the tax assessors value to determine value, I found that in 35 property searches, the Zestimate was lower than the tax assessors value 85% of the time. Yep, that is right. I wonder what tax assessor value is being used? It doesn't seem to be the county tax assessor value.
I compared the Zestimate to my real estate teams actual listings and found out that the over 70% of my team's listings were within 3% or lower than the Zestimate on that property. The odd thing is that 3 of our pending sales have appraised much higher than their Zestimate.
In review why is the Zestimate data like Katie Horner the ex-Kansas City Meterologist?
First, buyers must be looking at online estimates of homes like Zestimates, because the homes priced below the online values like Zestimates get the inquiries.
Next, and most importantly, news reporters get their housing reports from organizations like Zillow. When Zillow reports that nearly 30% of the households in an area are underwater the media starts reporting this incorrect data as fact. They don't care if it is wrong data, it gets viewers like Channel 5 got with Katie Horner.
The news media has already done their damage by broadcasting incorrect data. The incorrect data affects home buyers and home sellers. Home buyers think that their offer should be more in line with the online valuation like Zestimates. I have seen four recent offers that have been inline with online estimates. It affects home sellers because they think their homes are worth less than what it actually is values at in the current market.
Remember that Zillow gives themselves ONE GOLD STAR for their Zestimates in Kansas City. Two Gold Stars is identified as "FAIR ZESTIMATE."
Zestimate Accuracy/Star Rating: This rating is tied to the Median Error in an area.
The ratings are as follows:  = Best Zestimate = Good Zestimate = Fair Zestimate = Tax assessor's value, or unable to compute Zestimate accuracy- 0 stars = No valuation
The Zillow Estimate is much like Katie Horner and many people from the media. They need hype in order to make sales.
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Going FSBO in Kansas City . . . Does it make sense?
Why do most FSBO's in Kansas City decide to sell FSBO? To save the commission.
Why do home buyers in Kansas City who buy a FSBO, decide to buy FSBO? To save the commission.
How can the FSBO and the FSBO buyer both decide to save the some money. Simply, they can't.
So it makes sense about the real estate information that Homegain.com just released from the months of research they just finished, that both the FSBO home seller and buyer can't save the some money and that nearly 90% of the real estate lawsuits in the USA involved no real estate agent in the transactions.
Makes sense to me. I spoke to two title company closers this morning about the information released and was surprised about their take of the information. One closer said that she will never close a FSBO real estate transaction with the buyer not being represented by a real estate agent. The other title company closer said that her title company charges FSBO's and unrepresented buyers a higher closing fee.
Both title company closers mentioned that disputes over interpretation of wording on the real estate contract come up when the settlement statement gets released.
Another problem, according to the title company closers, is known issues around the home do not get disclosed to the buyer. If the buyer and seller can't work out a remedy, the closers said that the buyers and sellers try to draw them in.
Both title company closers were not surprised that nearly 90% of the FSBO sellers and unrepresented buyers end up into a legal dispute.
If you're thinking about either selling FSBO in Kansas City, I would suggest having an attorney draw up the real estate contract and disclosing all know material defects about your home.
If you're thinking about buying a Kansas City home without a real estate agent, I would suggest having an attorney review the real estate contact and having a seller's disclosure be an integral part of the real estate contract.
Need help or suggestions on how to stay out of a legal dispute? Contact the Dowell Taggart Team.
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Letter to Kansas City Home Buyers: National banks are losing local Kansas City mortgage business to local mortgage lenders and banks I feel compelled to advise local homebuyers to think carefully whom they select when applying for a home loan. If you don't think who you choose to get your mortgage loan, read on . . . Over the years I have referred home buyers to national banks like Bank of America, Wells Fargo, U.S. Bank and so forth. As a real estate team with over 30 years of real estate experience, we have seen another side of the national banks that most mortgage customers don't see. I addition, we have noticed something alarming the past few months that we have never seen: Getting a loan from even a national bank is often a nightmare and increasingly unachievable for customers with great credit. Many local banks are not much better. We had a home buyer with nearly perfect credit (810 credit scores) and over $100,000 in cash reserves after putting down 20% on his new home. He was confused with the hoops and hurdles he had to go through with many of the national and eventually local banks he applied for a mortgage. This is one of 15 reasons why we have advised Kansas City home buyers in the past few months to steer clear of the many large national banks and local banks as well. The national and local banks have confusing operations, non-accountable representatives, numerous mistakes and delayed closings. Until recently, if our customers still wanted to use a national or local bank, we still had some regional and local banks to recommend — some who underwrote and serviced their home loans locally — so this was an option for our customers. Up to this past month, we were down to one local bank and one local mortgage company that have consistently performed well for our customers. Kansas City home buyers should ask their real estate agent, business associates or friends for mortgage lenders they can recommend. Home buyers still need to make sure they are getting good rates and fees when using a mortgage lender or a local bank. If they choose a reputable one, they can get good rates and significantly increase their odds of actually getting to the closing table. The Dowell Taggart Team recommends the following two lenders to apply for a mortgage in Kansas City: Ronnie Yarbrough from the Bank of Kansas City (913) 579-4939
Offers exceptional zero down first time home buyer programs, physician loans, and great jumbo mortgages. Bank of Kansas City is a local bank that originates and services their own mortgage loans. Dennis Moser from Prime Mortgage Lending (913) 481-7212
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Question: We no longer trust our Kansas City real estate agent. We paid $500.00 upfront for the services of a Realtor to sell our Overland Park home. He never called us and we noticed last night that he took our home off the market, without our consent. How can we get our upfront money back and get out of this listing nightmare? He says our money is non-refundable. In 3 months we had 3 showings and two of them were on the same day from another Realtor. Any help would be appreciated. We are open to showings anytime and even lowered the price by $10,000 in the first three weeks.
Tammy K. from Overland Park, Kansas Answer: Sorry to hear about your listing nightmare. Using a full-time professional REALTOR is supposed to make your life easier and more pleasant. Without getting into specifics, it sounds like you're using the services of a "Limited Services REALTOR." That is ok, but you need to keep in mind that real estate listing contracts have ending dates. First, how do you know our listing has been removed? Are you talking about syndication sites, REALTOR.com or another REALTORS site? Look at your listing contract and see when it expires. Next, refer to your listing agreement which would detail the terms/conditions under which your binding contract could be terminated. If he indeed took your home off the market without your expressed written consent, then first talk to him with his broker. If that doesn't work, consult a real estate attorney who could better advise you on your possible courses of action. Best of luck, Tammy.
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5 Benefits of Pricing a Kansas City Home Correctly
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National Real Estate Stats - Home Sales Slip!
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The National Real Estate Stats - As Distressed Homes Decline Home Prices Increase - National Median Home Prices Rise
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Kansas City Real Estate Stats - Supply of New Homes Decreases!
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