BevBoeck

Clients frustrated?  Feel ripped off and can't call the police to file a report?  For starters, go HERE.  Read up on the "Notice and Opportunity to Repair Act" in Idaho; it is constructed in a way that is similar to an inspection contingency in a Purchase and Sale Contract, with sensitive time-li...

Go to the Office of the Attorney General's site for help on issues such as Foreclosure, Mortgage Modification, etc.--there are links all over the page and the entire site that might help.  Check the tabs on the left, including the ones marked Consumer Protection, Idaho Statutes (and there are som...

Seriously...You know the questions your friends and clients ask you all of the time: "So Bev, 'they' said on the news that the housing market is improving--what do you think?"  Well if, for example, you scratched your head and were scepticle when the recent "news" of improving employment numbers ...

Excellent service resource for unexpected seller needs: Powerful Rental Listings! I have an investment property in Florida. In the last three years, twice I’ve listed it for sale. Twice I’ve ended up renting it. Twice I’ve relied on my agentto help me with the decision making that took me down t...

Read this article, which is noted (not linked) by Realtor Magazine to have come from Associated Press (?) and if you know nothing about the ACORN videos, better turn to YouTube.com for the video part 1 and video part 2 and get up to speed on the organization.  You won't be bored, and you might ev...

Fantastic article by Karl Denninger on Market Ticker shows how distressed homes are the "visible side of accounting fraud," and calls for stopping "the looting, and start prosecuting."  "Mark to Myth Losers: Americans" pulls back the curtain on the Wizard of Banking-Oz, defines terms, and points ...

Here's a great article that was also credited as the source for another piece on NAR.com: Click Here to read the original article, "Satisfaction Piece" by Lew Sichelman, and find out about the legal document you need to file with the county so that title companies can verify that you own the hous...

Hmm, somebody telling it like it is?  No way... ;-)Whoever said, Jim Cramer, that the housing market has bottomed doesn't know anything about Option ARMs.  Those loans are represented by the light yellow bars in the graph below, the ones that surge in 2010 and 2011.  Never mind that a record 12% ...

Great Title for a Great Post:Recession over? Recovery on the way? Housing on its way back up? Don’t prepare for the boom just yet. While the talking heads—they’re called that for a reason—are focusing upon a few bits of positive economic news, the economy still continues its slump.   I think it’s...

In their article, "Commercial Real Estate Lurks as next Potential Mortgage Crisis," LingLing Wei and Peter Grant of Wall Street Journal online outline how this is happening.  "CBMS" is an acronym for Commercial Backed Mortgage Securities, and a very telling line in the article, "...many property ...