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I would appreciate if you could share your experience with short sales for 2nd homes, especially experience with short sale for 2nd homes in Las Vegas: Do you know how are lenders treating - Las Vegas - second homes? - Second homes in Las Vegas I had an inquiry from a client who was renting her 2...
07/27/2008
A lot of us are actively involved processing shor sales with Indymac.  There was a lot of frustration out there with the way Indymac was procesing files (Indymac is a pain). The need to complain is no more.  Indymac was taken over by the Government. Now we have to anxiously wait to see what happe...
07/12/2008
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A few days ago I asked "Can Lakers recover?" .  They couldn't .  San Francisco Chronicle and a few other newspapers called their 6th and decisive loss by 39 points to Boston Celtics a "Boston Masacre"! Congratulations all Celtics fans! Here in the Bay Area we are thinking already about the new se...
06/18/2008
Are you a soccer fan? The stage foe quarterfinals is set!  Here is paring of 8 quarterfinalists for the Europe Cup 2008: 06/19/2008 Portugal - Germany  @ 2:45 p.m. ET 06/20/2008 Croatia - Turkey @ 2:45 p.m. ET 06/21/2008 Netherlands - Russia @ 2:45 p.m. ET 06/22/2008 Spain - Italy @ 2:45 p.m. ET ...
06/18/2008
                                               Many of us realized that lenders and mortgage servicers are giving short sales a “cold shoulder”. It simply doesn’t make sense that lenders and mortgage servicers don’t seem to care for success of short sales, as they don’t seem to have incentives (!...
06/16/2008
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Did you know that Point Montara Lighthouse on the San Mateo Count coast, California was moved there from Mayo's Beach near Wellfleet, MA on Cape Code? It was built in 1881 and "lost" approximately 80 years ago.  However it actually was disassembled and moved across the country in the late 1920s. ...
06/14/2008
                                      "Worst (is) over for U.S. if financial crisis ends" according to Greenspan, Doesn't sound it like "It is going to stay dry if it doesn't rain" or very "Clintonesque" (read: says nothing)?  Here is the link to the Reuters news CLIP. I guess now we understand b...
06/13/2008
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Have you looked to HotPads service?  If not, make sure you do.  It is another easy to use tool (like Trulia or Zillow) empowering clients and helping them to make a decison rent vs. buy. They have just introduced rent ratio heat maps. They allow users to visualize sale and rental properties and t...
06/13/2008
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Lakers fans out there! Can Lakers recover? I guess we have to go with Kobe said - "We're thinking about beating them on Sunday,'' Bryant said. "Then, you move on from there. Take one swing at a time to chop down a tree. We'll take care of business on Sunday.'' So on Sunday I will have to share my...
06/12/2008
                                            You possibly have read the post “NAR should ban Short Sales”. Let me strongly disagree. Even if they could, they shouldn’t. We all need succesfull short sales and no-one more than lenders. I understand the frustration with the process. Lenders present t...
06/12/2008
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