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Today I put on a broker's open at a listing of mine and had 1 person show up in the 2 hour period I held it open.  Granted, I am aware that this one particular area has had lower sales activity than others in the past 1.5 years. On the other hand, last week I had a different listing held open for...
08/19/2008
Maybe it is because we are all too comfortable with our fellow agents but it seems like in casual conversations agents are giving their sellers money away bags at a time. When ever I submit an offer I always ask the questions "is there any flexibility on price." There are a dozen answers they can...
08/19/2008
About a year ago, my wife and I saw the movie "Pirates of the Caribbean" We both liked it, and as the movie ended she turns to me and says "Wouldn't it be nice if we make it look like a Pirate ship in front of our house for Halloween...? I turn to her and starting to say... "Are you craz... you k...
08/19/2008
So we all know that in some parts of the country, Real Estate values are holding steady, and in some lucky areas they are even rising (see my recent blog post: 10 Cities w/ Fastest Rising Homevalues), but in some parts of the country homevalues are so depressed that sellers are having a hard tim...
08/19/2008
I'll keep this one short and sweet: What will cause more damage to home values:  Termites or Congress? How many of today's short sales and foreclosures are FHA?  Not many! - During the boom years, you couldn't do an FHA loan because the loan limits were lower than what homes were selling for.  On...
08/19/2008
  Incredible!  My state, Florida, has decided to reap additional taxes on those who have the unenviable position of having to do a Short Sale to save themselves from foreclosure or other financial ruin.  Florida, like some other states, has a standard tax to the seller whenever there is a sale of...
08/19/2008
  A was browsing the internet this afternoon and came across the article below about how a realtor in Las Vegas is suing USA Today.  She is alleging that an article in the paper caused her subseqent firing and thus ending her real estate career. We all have lost business due to the economic condi...
08/19/2008
  Housing Starts measure the number of new housing "units" on which construction has started and in July, Housing Starts fell to its lowest levels since March 1991. For homeowners, this is a welcome bit of good news because as fewer homes are built, there is less inventory from which home buyers ...
08/19/2008
  I'm a fan of Diane Kennedy for many reasons. Bottom line, she's an accomplished CPA and author worth listening to. The reason for this post is that the secondary mortgage market is making some significant changes. If you own a property that has been in an LLC in the last 6 months, you might not...
08/19/2008
  Hello Friends! Today was an interesting day. What should have been a huge hit to mortgage rates with a "knock it out of the park" type reading on July's Producer Price Index (PPI), I am pleasantly surprised to see traders already "pad" the market with an anticipated bad reading. The main reason...
08/19/2008
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