Been paying your mortgage on time, even despite struggling to just to make ends meet? Are you already late on your payments and barely hanging on? If you're wondering where your "Bail-out" is, well here you go! The Homeowner Affordability and Stability Plan, recently announced by the Obama Adm
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03/16/2009
Sometimes we Real Estate people need to be reminded that the process of buying a home may not be a 100% clear to everybody, so that's what we're going to talk about today. The following guide is meant to spell out exactly what you need to do to buy a house from step one, to the final close of es
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02/16/2009
Hire a local Real Estate Professional. You'll be glad you did in the end. Your local Real Estate professional is your advocate in every regard whose job is to provide you with all possible information and/or services that will be of benefit throughout the transaction. A lot of footwork is need
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01/20/2009
I've got two more terms to be added to everyone's "Everything you didn't want to know about lending in 2009 because you were afraid to ask" vocabulary list: "Alt-A" and "Option ARMs." Don't know what they are? Well, you will, soon. It seems that a second mortgage shock is heading for the econo
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12/16/2008
The last few weeks of financial turmoil have reminded me of school and an econ class I took once upon a time. I can remember trying to wrap my head around how the Federal Reserve decides to lend money to the banks and at what rates of interest, and how those kinds of decisions theoretically tran
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10/17/2008
One of the most beautiful things I've ever heard. Real Estate can wait... Wilhelm Kempff playing Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata movement 1. Wilhelm Kempff (November 25, 1895 – May 23, 1991) was a renowned German pianist. Wilhelm Kempff was born in Jüterbog near Berlin and grew up in nearby Potsdam
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08/06/2008
For Buyers who may have been waiting for the market to finally bottom-out, that time may have already passed. As a matter of fact, the decision to wait may have already cost the average buyer 50 thousand dollars or more. Last Spring I argued that there couldn't possibly have been a better time
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07/21/2008
Last year I wrote a story entitled "Support your Local Starving REALTOR." It was meant to bring to light that not all real estate brokers are getting rich. "..The vast majority of Real Estate professionals are not paid a salary and live purely on commissions.. for every day in, and every day ou
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07/14/2008
Last year the local newspaper asked me to provide a summary of local neighborhoods and subdivisions in the La Pine area. Surprisingly, these descriptions and prices still look pretty current even despite the so-called down-turn. Here's what was published: Antelope Meadows: South of La Pine cen
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06/22/2008
"So Mr. and Mrs. Buyer, I'm really excited about finding you the perfect property to suit your needs and I think I have a pretty good idea about what you're looking for. I am, however, still a little foggy about what price range you would be comfortable with... ... Ok, I hear that your decisio
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06/16/2008
