Mark Druckmiller - Real Estate One, Customer Care

(Day 13 of the "30 in 30" challenge) Maybe I have to brush up on skills.  Maybe I have to re-align my thinking.  Maybe I need new underwear! FSBO's: We know the type.  Folks, for some reason, think they can sell their house faster and better by selling it themselves.  Yes, WE all know the reasons...

(Day 12 of "30 in 30") Part 4 of The Builder from Hell Fred, The Illegal Builder from Hell, soon has his world fall apart around him.  The Wife and I were starting to resume a normal life, even though $25,000 of our money was sitting in an escrow account at a real estate company in town, we weren...

(Day 11 of the 30 in 30 challenge.) Part 3 of The Builder from Hell After August, we did our PROPER research in locating a GOOD building contractor, to finish our house to get the PERMANENT certificate of occupancy, get the basement finished, and get the permanent stairway.  Not very exciting, ex...

(Day 10 of the 30 in 30 challenge) Part 2 of The Builder from Hell Then the builder, we'll call him "Fred" (not his real name, or anything close), started to not show up.  When he DID show up, he came up with all sorts of excuses and reasons, all of them pretty bad.  Problems with his ex-wife.......

(Day 9 of the 30 in 30 challenge.) Part 1 of The Builder from Hell Going off on a tangent today.  I thought I'd share a horror story as a home buyer on my last house.  Why?  One reason is to get it all recorded here for posterity and perhaps link it so that I can refer to it over and over again (...

(Day 8 of 30 in 30 challenge!) Okay, yesterday wasn't such a hot day for me.  However, I did get a comment perhaps about how applicable the topic of proximity to health care is for certain buyers.  I just happened to remember that I had a friend of my mother-in-law comment that she'd like to live...

(Day 7 of the 30 in 30 challenge.) Well, I've been forcing myself to specifically post in the "30 in 30" challenge, but today was not a good day for it.  So I have to apologize for now, as I would consider this a "minimally qualifying" post.   You see, my mother-in-law had a possible heart attack...

(Day 6 of the 30 in 30 challenge.)   Great timing.  Time magazine puts out an article in the September 6, 2010 print issue, "The Case Against Homeownership" (shortened version here), where as NAR puts a reprint of part of a New York Times article FOR homeownership. The PRINT version of the Time a...

(Day 5 of 30 in 30.)   No surprise here!   As it's no news to me, my business right now is over 90% rentals.  The Detroit Free Press reports more and more homeowners are renting out their homes as they can't sell them.  True, even yesterday (a Sunday), I've spoke with a client that's looking to r...

(Day 4 of the 30 in 30 challenge.) Recycling:  Something we all should be doing, or if not directly recycling, making wise choices about what we consume.  Yeah, I'm a bit of an eco-weenie, I'm on my second Prius.  Anyway, in Ann Arbor, you can have your recyclables picked up directly at your door...