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Eileen Slezak I Salem, OR

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      My Home Didn't Sell! Now What? Property Marketing Plan
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Eileen Slezak

Eileen Slezak

Broker Licensed in the State of Oregon

Realty ONE Group Willamette Valley

2668 Cascadia Industrial St SE
Salem , OR 97302
United States
1 (503) 510-9539

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01 Oct 2026

Sell It or Rent It Out? How to Decide What to Do With Your Home When You Move

by Eileen Slezak

For most people, moving has come with an assumption built in: you sell the house you’re leaving and put the proceeds toward the one you’re buying. The only real question is what it will...

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01 Sep 2026

How AI Is Changing the Home Search — and How to Make It Work for You

by Eileen Slezak

For most of the internet era, searching for a home meant the same ritual: set your price cap, pick a number of bedrooms, check a few boxes, and scroll. Then the real work started...

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01 Aug 2026

2026 Mid-Year Market Check-In: What the First Half of the Year Tells Us About Your Next Move

by Eileen Slezak

For the past two years, a lot of people have been waiting on the housing market to do one specific thing: drop rates dramatically and “unfreeze.” That was the plan for buyers and sellers...

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01 Jul 2026

What You Can Negotiate in a Home Purchase (That Most Buyers Don’t Realize)

by Eileen Slezak

When most people picture negotiating on a home, they picture one number: the list price. You offer somewhere under the asking price, the seller counters, you settle in the middle, and whoever gives up...

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01 Jun 2026

House Hacking in 2026: What the Hype Got Wrong — and What Actually Works

by Eileen Slezak

If you’ve spent any time on real estate TikTok in the last few years, you’ve probably seen the house hacking pitch. Buy a property, rent part of it out, let your tenants cover the...

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01 May 2026

2026 Home Design Trends: What’s In, What’s Out, and What Buyers Are Responding To

by Eileen Slezak

After a decade of cool grays, crisp whites, and spaces that looked more like showrooms than homes, buyers have changed what they’re looking for. Call it quiet luxury — the idea that richness comes...

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01 Apr 2026

Is Buying a Home Together Right for Your Family? Here’s How to Think It Through

by Eileen Slezak

For a long time, multigenerational living had a reputation problem. It was the option families turned to when something had gone wrong — a job loss, a divorce, a health crisis. Moving back in...

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28 Feb 2026

What Actually Makes a Listing Stand Out in 2026

by Eileen Slezak

The playbook for selling a home has changed fast. Buyers have more options, more leverage, and they are using it. Active housing inventory rose more than 16% year-over-year in 2025 — one of the...

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01 Feb 2026

The True Cost of Homeownership: What You Pay Beyond the Mortgage

by Eileen Slezak

When most homebuyers calculate whether they can afford a new home, they focus almost exclusively on one number: the monthly mortgage payment. It’s the figure lenders qualify them for, the number discussed during showings,...

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31 Dec 2025

2026 Housing Market Forecast: Will the Market Find Its Footing?

by Eileen Slezak

Will 2026 be the year buyers stop waiting? Forecasters are split, predicting anywhere from 1.7%1 to 14%2 growth in home sales. That 12-point gap reveals the central question facing the housing market: how much...

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