Dale Marciniak's Blog

I have extremely exciting news to share with you!J.D. Power and Associates just announced that RE/MAX ranks highest in customer satisfaction, for both buyers andsellers, in its 2011 residential real estate survey.That's right – we’ve earned the highest level of appreciation from BOTH groups of co...

A bill introduced in Congress would allow struggling homeowners to withdraw funds from their retirement accounts tax free to pay their mortgage. Borrowers could pull as much as $50,000 from their retirement account or one-half of the current value of their account, whichever is smaller, and avoid...

FORECLOSURES FALL…WHAT DOES THAT MEAN FOR THE REAL ESTATE MARKET AS A WHOLE? The number of homes taken back by lenders in the first half of the year fell 30% compared with the same 2010 period. Does that mean good news for the housing market?   The result of delays in foreclosure processing threa...

Real Estate as an Investment   Has the stock market declined enough to make people look again at real estateas an alternative way to invest money? Back in 2002 when all of the values of thetechnology stocks plunged, people looked at buying real estate as a safe place toinvest their money. The val...

Alright, we I think anyone knows how important real estate bloging is when it revolves being the local expert.  Now I am really currious to who has the best platform and SEO results.  There are two blogs that I think are in the fore front of this technology and want to know what other agents thin...

Banks have become very conservative when it comes to just lending out moneyto anyone and we cannot really blame them. With all the financial problems thathave taken place the past few years and banking institutions falling apart, bankswant to make sure that a buyer has the ability to pay back the...

Home sales down in March! Home sales are down in April Home sales down in May! These have been the recent media headlines, and I bet that June will be down also. Yes, the market is struggling to get any sure footing and prices are having a hard time stabilizing with the foreclosures. But, negati...

I’m steamed! I just read an article published by the Daily Real Estate News. It was about how the IRS claimed that the US government paid $513 million in buyers tax credits during the last stimulus for home buyers to people who did not really qualify. People who received the tax credits were tho...

By Bill Moeller, Sales Manager Mortgage Partners (AKA billthebanker.com) While Waiting For An Approval, Time Is Your Enemy It could take up to 6 months to get to the closing table on a shortsale or foreclosure depending on the speed of home appraisal, theamount of time required for bank sign-off,...

This graph is something new on the RE/MAX site that our agents can use.  If I can say so…it does look pretty impressive.  Though the market has taken a toll on a lot of agents (including those who have left the industry), this graph shows that RE/MAX agents are on the leading edge and do more tra...