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FIRST TIME HOME BUYERS WANTED IN 2012! Los Angeles, Long Beach, Downey and Nearby Cities! Are you a first time home buyer looking to purchase your first home in 2012 using a first time home buyer program?  This year is your lucky year!   As of right now, the holy trinity of home buying is still h...
01/13/2012
I'm always glad to offer tips and insights to my first time home buyers.  Here is an article posted to home buyers nationally by Realtor colleagues Bill and Liz Spear of Cincinnati who act primarily in the role of LISTING agents. Unlike the agent described below, I will show you the homes persona...
01/09/2012
First Time Home Buyers - Sweat Equity 101 Below Portland Realtor colleague Carla Muss Jacobs asks the question "What Ever Happened to Sweat Equity?" as some first time home buyers insist on the shiny and new when their budget states fixer-upper. There are programs such as the 203k offering help w...
01/06/2012
A REALTOR Speaks Out on the "Realtor Speak" Nonsense! Kate Elim, a Realtor colleague in VA, penned a great response post to an inspector who wrote extremely disparaging remarks slamming real estate agents as he gave what I feel were VERY harmful misguided translations to buyers on what he deemed ...
12/29/2011
Long Beach Market Report - Long Beach Home Sales Report - November 2011   The Long Beach Real Estate Market is still looking very good in terms of the number of Long Beach Single Family Homes sold for early winter.  Only 19 less homes sold than the previous month as people started to settle into ...
12/06/2011
Long Beach Ocean Blvd Condos for Sale As of 12/05/11 Long Beach is currently offering 69 Ocean Blvd condos for sale ranging in price from $124,000 (perfect for first time home buyers) to just over a million dollars for those looking for luxury condo living. If you are looking for cozy, swanky, oc...
12/05/2011
Belmont Heights Long Beach Condos for Sale $300K and above Who is the person who buys a condo for sale in Belmont Heights?   Is it the single person or couple who's tired of renting and has decided to get their feet wet at this "home ownership" thing without having all of the major upkeep respons...
12/05/2011
There have been a lot of alarm posts published in the media and even here lately about the potential need for real estate agents diminishing.  With FSBOs being able to use Realtor.com to post photos of their listings (a website supported by Realtor dues I might add), and with buyers using IDX on ...
10/21/2011
Home Buyers to Their Agents:  Why Aren't You Showing Me Everything? I've never actually been asked this directly before, but it hasn't been missed in the tone of a voice or email of a past buyer that has sent me a long list of homes from Realtor, Zillow etc. that they've found during their public...
10/10/2011
REAL ESTATE DISCLOSURES - Remembering the "WHY" Behind the Tedium   I find myself annoyed at times with the seemingly massive amounts of disclosure paperwork.  CA seems to come out with several new ones a year!  But it's when I come to the Megan's Law Database Disclosure in particular, that I tak...
09/27/2011
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