It feels like Christmas morning! I feel like a kid that wondered downstairs to find the presents under the tree. No, it is not a shiny red bike but an email with approval of a Salem Oregon short sale I have been working. It is a great feeling and every time I see one it feels like the first time.
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11/16/2011
Trevor Elliott CSP, GRI | RE/MAX Equity Group, Inc. | (503) 602-1039 3845 Croisan Mountain Ct S, Salem, OR Croisan Mountain Showplace with a View! 4BR/2+1BA Single Family House offered at $575,000 Year Built 2007 Sq Footage 3,290 Bedrooms 4 Bathrooms 2 full, 1 partial Floors Unspecified Parking
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11/03/2011
Knee deep in a FHA 203k Home deal I have been sifting through bids from contractors. While looking at Labor and Materials it made me realize that our business is not entirely different. Real Estate as well as General Contracting is generally vague on what we do. A bid is more concrete than say a
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11/03/2011
Trevor Elliott CSP, GRI | RE/MAX Equity Group, Inc. | 503 602-1039 1040 Ratcliff Dr SE, Salem, OR Complete Remodel with City Views. 3BR/2BA Single Family House offered at $174,950 Year Built 1948 Sq Footage 1,208 Bedrooms 3 Bathrooms 2 full, 0 partial Floors Unspecified Parking Unspecified Lot S
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03/29/2010
I was talking with a buyer of mine and he said he heard somewhere that sellers are padding their home prices because of the $8,000 Tax Credit. I told him sure someone out there might think that could work but most savy buyers agents are looking at the comps and know Fair Market Value. I would hav
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03/03/2010
Thanks for the comments. I took this last summer at one of my listings and I grayscaled it and then reopened another copy and use the color selection tool. Then I copy and pasted it over the grayscaled layer. It took me all of five minutes and I used my Nikon D40. I love how it focuses on foregr
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02/24/2010
It feels like Spring. The sun is out the birds are chirping and I am looking for a spring cleaning checklist. I want to include it in my Newsletter and Website but I can't find any online. Can you help me? Martha Stewart has some good checklist but they are not all inclusive. Some other website h
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02/24/2010
I had an interesting coverstaion at lunch today. Handguns in Real Estate. I was wondering how many agents out there are card carrying members of the NRA? How many of use have handguns? Besides the large hammer I use to pound in directional stakes I have no weapons. Very rarely do I feel in danger
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02/23/2010
5 years ago I was just a tenderfoot in Real Estate. I was selling a home in a small town to some first time home buyers. All seemed good. The buyer had to jump through some hoops to get the loan and home fincanced one of which was a new roof. $10,000 new and $3500 in dry rot work we were two days
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02/23/2010
The stress is getting to me. As I was getting in car I spilled my water bottle all over the front seat of tmy car. My six year old son had a backdown because he is sick of buying lunch on Mondays. I was working with two buyers over the weekend and now I have 100 emails most of which are junk and
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02/22/2010