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SPONSORED CONTENT BUSINESS SPOTLIGHT Curious About Your Home’s Value? The Sold Home Alert® is for You! S elling a home is a daunting task full of stress, but it doesn’t have to be, thanks to an innovative, featured service being offered by EXP Realtor Erica Shulsky and Victorian Finance’s Jeff Lagoni called Sold Home Alert®. “Selling a home comes down to four basic things,” said Shulsky. “Location, marketing, showability and pricing. You can’t change the location. Your Realtor handles the marketing. So basically, you control the showability and pricing.” Sold Home Alert® comes into play with pricing because it gives you up-to-the-minute information on homes sold in your area so you can set a comparable price point. Once signed up, the Sold Home Alert® comes to you once a month in an email, bringing you monthly updates on comparable homes within your neighborhood or zip code that have sold and what their final selling prices were - as far away as 20 miles and as far back as one year — giving you up-to-date data on how pricing is being established in any given neighborhood. Because this information is being pulled from county records, it can be used nationwide – to help you relocate, buy a vacation home, and establish a good price for your current home to get it ready to sell! The app has real-time access to 100% of the homes for sale online. It updates you on properties you identify as favorites, affords you opportunities for quick feedback and answers from Erica and Jeff, and protects your information from being sold. “The granularity of this featured service is its strength,” Lagoni said. “It not only works for all of Western Pennsylvania, it works for SPONSORED CONTENT PROPERTY VALLUE $ everywhere in the United States. So, if you’re looking for a summer home in Pebble Beach, or you’re moving across the state or country for a new job, all you need to do is plug in the address or zip code of the area you’re interested in into your account and you can see the prices of what properties are going for and selling for.” “Regionally, for example, a lot of my clients are looking to move into the top-rated Canon-Mac School District,” Shulsky said. “This service also affords a buyer the ability to see homes that have sold around the property they are interested in. On the flip side, if you’re an empty nester and you’re wondering what would be a realistic number to price your home at so you can downsize into som