Heather Paul's Blog

Foreclosures are found in every neighborhood across the US, currently there are over 3.5 million active foreclosures on the real estate market.  With this brings a huge new niche industry called the Foreclosure Cleanup Business “or also known as Property Preservation”.  When homes foreclose by t...

Have you incorporated marketing on facebook, twitter, active rain, and other social networking internet websites into your daily business activities? With the evolution of real estate and the dominant presence of the internet, this is a must for all real estate agents if they expect to last in th...

Brentwood, CA Real Estate Market Update Here are the Latest Brentwood, CA 90049 Real Estate Market Statistics FIND A LOCAL BRENTWOOD REAL ESTATE AGENT       CHECK OUT THESE GREAT FORECLOSURE AND SHORT SALE DEALS     $789,000 : 11915 Gorham Avenue, Unit 3, Los Angeles 2 beds, 2 full baths Size: 1...

  The 16th annual L.A. Times Festival of Books took place April 30 and May 1 under sunny Southern California skies. For the first time, the festival was held on the campus of USC, across town from its former home at UCLA.  The organizers of the Festival of Books want your opinion and take on the...

Don’t be surprised this spring when you are down in Santa Monica at a store or restaurant and your bill is a little higher as voters in 13 California cities including Santa Monica have approved higher sales tax rates. Effective April 1st of this year, the new sales tax rate will be 10.25%, which...

Want a real treat for the little ones that doesn’t cost a penny? Pack a picnic lunch and take them to the flight deck of the Santa Monica Airport for a nice meal and a quick view of the planes. There you can see the ocean and have a great view of both big and small planes, taking off and landing...

Regular visitors to the historic Venice Post Office building along the Windward Avenue Circle have likely laid eyes on a mural depicting the early history of Venice with the image of community founder Abbot Kinney at the center. The mural, created by artist Edward Biberman and entitled “Story of ...

REO Bank Manager Contact List to Help you Get REO Listings, BPOs, and REO Assignments I decided to write this blog post to help some of my fellow realtors and real estate agents that are looking to get into listing REOs or to just be able to contact the Foreclosure Bank REO Asset Managers. Here ...

It is cheaper to buy a home than to rent one in 39 of the nation's 50 largest cities, according to a quarterly report released today by real estate search and marketing site Trulia. Trulia's rent vs. buy index compared the median list price with the median rent on two-bedroom apartments, condomi...

The number of Americans signing contracts to buy previously owned homes rose more than forecast in March, a sign the industry that triggered the recession may begin to stabilize.   The index of pending home resales climbed 5.1 percent after a revised 0.7 percent increase the prior month, the Nat...