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Real Estate Broker/Owner - Monterey County Appraisal Services & Open House Realty (831) 224-3793 - BREA Lic. AR041324
RECENT BLOG POSTS
The REO listings seems to have slowed WAY up and/or almost stopped. I'm guessing the banks are trying to work out loan modifications and/or short sales more and more. I keep hearing there are a large amount of foreclosed homes waiting to come into the market, in the area where our office is locat...
06/08/2009
If I could have one wish......just one wish, it would be that someone from Washington Mutual, now Chase would call my office from their REO division. Someone that I could tell the following completely 100% true story to. Someone that could make a difference. A senior manager. I will make this as ...
06/05/2009
I'm curious as to what others think about people that use YAHOO, HOTMAIL, GMAIL, or other on-line free email accounts for their business. Personally, I really think it is UN-PROFESSIONAL to use a YAHOO, GMAIL, HOTMAIL or another of these free accounts as your business email. I have my email set u...
05/13/2009
Our office has not had a new REO listing in about 2 months. A headline I just read states "FORECLOSURE NOTICES SOAR, FORECLOSURE SALES DROP". Interesting. I have noticed that many REO listings in our area (OAKHURST, COARSEGOLD, MARIPOSA, BASS LAKE, AHWAHNEE, RAYMOND, etc.) are now being assigned ...
04/19/2009
Here is something new. I have been selling REO's for quite a while now. And for many different companies. But one company recently gave me a task and I said "no more". The asset management company assigned me a property. I sent my crew to do the trashout and paid them their $500 and submitted my ...
06/02/2008
I would and could certainly appreciate some information, thoughts, recent experiences, etc., on Realty Trac and especially Res.net.I have talked with Realty Trac on the phone. My thought is they have really nothing to offer me. All they seem to do is have a place to market your properties, maybe ...
04/20/2008
You know what most people first say to me when I tell them I sell forclosed homes? They ask, "don't you feel sorry for the people that lost their homes"? Of course I do. I would not wish that on anyone in this life. But.....let me say this. Almost every single home that I have been able to learn ...
04/08/2008
http://www.sierrastar.com/features/story/14335440p-14851488c.html 
01/26/2008
It's been a while since I have had time to write much of anything. In the month of January I got married. I started my own real estate company, REO Properties in Oakhurst, CA. It snowed and our truck is stuck in the driveway right now! That's another story. Anyways.....I decided to stop giving aw...
01/25/2008
Recently I have seen some real interesting properties. It's amazing what people leave behind when they loose their home. I've seen more than one pool table. Several spa's. Homes full of furniture, pots, pans, dishes, etc. What I'm seeing is the lenders and banks are being extremely generous in gi...
11/27/2007
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Scott Runtzel, MRP, SCREA

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local_phone(831) 224-3793
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