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Houston Real Estate Blog by Erion Shehaj
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2007
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Remember that moment halfway through the infomercial or sitting at Barnes & Noble with 25 real estate investment books scattered around you? The excitement, the feeling of "I can do this too" ? Well, those feelings are quickly gone as soon as you enter the actual real estate investment game and y...
05/02/2007
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Fresh off a deal falling through in the 11th hour and 45 minutes, I feel very compelled to write this post about the need for earnest money deposit release rules to change. In this particular deal, the buyer had an approved loan, we were two days from closing, they changed their mind for no reaso...
05/02/2007
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Our staff at Signature Real Estate just completed the report for "real estate owned" bank foreclosures in the Houston Area that closed in the month of January 2007. In this report we included properties priced from $50k-$100k, with at least three bedrooms and two baths and days on the market of n...
05/02/2007
The verdict on the press is unanimous: We are currently experiencing a scary subprime mortgage market meltdown and it will affect everyone from Wall Street to Your Street. Certainly, the subject has gotten sufficient (ok, maybe a little excessive) coverage. However, I wanted to look at it from a ...
05/02/2007
I learned the information I'm about to share in this post due to necessity more than actual interest. Like many of you, my schedule in any particular day is pretty hectic and I certainly didn't have time to sit on my desk for hours designing, creating and optimizing my website. But after I had th...
05/02/2007
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I was recently browsing through business videos on YouTube and I ran into a CNBC report about a young indian entrepreneur that had come up with this website BrainReactions.net. The idea behind the project is to set up an online brainstorming community where ideas can be sought on how to do things...
05/02/2007
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I realize that I may be touching on some very sensitive "nerves" with this post. Now that we got that out of the way....Close your eyes and imagine this: It's Saturday and you're in the last hour of a four hour open house. No people have shown up. No people in sight either. You thought this would...
05/02/2007
A little while ago I came into contact with Zillow and Trulia and as with any new website that tries to become the new nationwide MLS system, I discounted them. But I kept coming back and checking on them periodically. Recently, my company Signature Real Estate, officially started advertising our...
05/02/2007
Now that the national housing market has hit a bit of slump, you don't hear about them as much in media's feature stories but I remember about six months ago when every other day CNN Money was covering some new concept real estate company that was slashing commission rates and how it all was goin...
05/02/2007
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Erion Shehaj
Houston Real Estate Broker