Beautiful 2014-built home in Byron Center's coveted Planter's Row neighborhood. This home checks the boxes of all of the hot ticket items buyers desire: Open kitchen-living concept, vaulted ceilings, built-in mudroom storage, convenient main floor master suite, and laundry, fenced-in backyard, and the list goes on! Gorgeous stainless steel appliances and solid surface countertops in the kitchen with oversized island/snack bar. 3 bedrooms and two full baths on the main, and two additional bedrooms with a full bath are located in the basement. The walk-out basement features a large rec room with a wet bar and ample storage space. You can't beat the location, just minutes from M-6, Downtown Byron Center, Tanger Outlets and award-winning Byron Center Schools!

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Is it essential to pay off your home before buying/selling?

In one form or another, we've heard it before: debt is dumb. But is it possible there is 'good debt'? How important is it to pay off your home? Does it actually harm your investment to pay off your home early? Steve takes his 15+ years of experience in the Real Estate industry and talks more about what paying off your home early could mean for the future.

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If there's one thing we can all agree on this year, it's that 2020 has been tough. With the holiday season looking a bit different this year, we wanted to help spread a little joy and make our community's holiday season a little more magical. Announcing our...

Our 12 Days of Giveaways!

Beginning, Monday, December 7, and running through Tuesday, December 22, we will be giving away 12 awesome, heavily-sought after gifts to give to a loved one, or keep for yourself (we won't tell!). To enter to win, all you need to do is leave a comment on the post about why you want/need the gift! The most creative response will be selected and named the winner!

Before we get too far, let's go over some ground rules:

  1. The content will run Monday, December 7,…

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While masks, hand sanitizer, and social distancing make home showings significantly safer, you may still have concerns about groups of potential buyers traversing through your home. Before you call off the staging company, consider that many home buyers are still exploring homes virtually in this “new normal.”

Every staging best practice pre-quarantine still applies— If anything, in this new normal, greater attention to detail should be taken when preparing your home for virtual tours.

Here’s how you can impress buyers from a distance:

1.    Lighting, Lighting, Lighting: If you’ve used Zoom lately for business meetings, you have a basic understanding of how important lighting is. Open shades and turn on as many lights in your home during…

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Both images above capture a moment in time during my week last week. The image on the left? Me, dropping off an extension ladder to a home so the buyers could do some exterior painting before winter hits. The other? Batteries for a garage furnace, to remedy an inspection report note and ensure my clients are safe. Both tasks are a reminder of where I came from, and how the little touches in service truly matter. 

Sometimes, it can be easy to become full of ourselves, especially during busy seasons and there are lots of deals coming in. Something that will also humble me is my upbringing. I started off as a painter, working for someone who told me, "The only thing that will make you money is your hands." Instead of listening to this limiting…

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With lots of potential for future reconfiguration of the floor plan and unbeatable views, this downtown Grand Rapids condo is nearly unparalleled in value for the amount of space in its location in the heart of downtown GR.

Check out what Steve Volkers & Rachael Fountain have to about this 11th-floor condo in the City View Condominium building!

View the listing here: https://bit.ly/cityview11b

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It’s Valentine's Day and I sit in my office trying to make matches. I have clients that want to buy their future home but are stuck with not finding enough homes on the market to buy. 

So I sit here, thinking I need to find the match. 

On this Valentine’s Day, if you are someone that wants to sell in the next 6 months and needs to sell to be able to buy, I want to know if I can make a match. See, my clients are all willing to wait to move into your home. They would be fine with buying your home and letting you stay there while you go find your match. If you are looking to walk away from your home but still have the freedom to take your time to buy, let's play the game. 

Please take a moment to tell me a little about your home using this…

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So, I have been getting this question a ton over the last 30 days!  Here are the top questions and I hope to provide answers if you wondered. 

 

Are you selling or just being a broker?

This is the biggest one that seems to be throwing people off. Yes, and Yes! I am actively selling real estate as a Realtor® as well as being the broker of Steve Volkers Group. Throughout my career, I have continued to help people buy and sell homes and condos, but I think the world has a tendency to put you into one box rather than recognizing that you do more than one thing. So, yes I buy and sell homes like any normal Realtor®... but more fun and in my own style. 

 

What brokerage did you change to?

I started my own independent brokerage utilizing…

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