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New home sales in and around San Antonio Texas for information for the public and fellow real estate practitioners. Includeing single family homes, HOA, POA, horse properties, small ranches, river front, lake view, metro city, downtown, and new construction/new homes. Serving the Greater San Antonio Area including Alamo Heights, Alamo Ranch, Bandera, Boerne, Bulverde, Canyon Lake, Castorville, Dominion, Helotes, Hill Country, Hollywood Park, LaVernia, New Braunfles, Olmos Park, Shavano Park, Sonterra, Stone Oak, Terrell Hills and more.
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  Attention Squatters Go Directly To Jail   Attention Occupy Idiots:  You are getting very bad legal advice if you think you will squat in any bank owned foreclosures.  If I find you in my property here is what I will do, First I will have you arrested under a citizens arrest  for breaking and e...
12/07/2011
It appears as though technology has escaped our Government Service Enterprise vendors at Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, and HUD.  Why are they still by passing qualified Brokers & Agents that would do a far superior job servicing their REO's in favor of Brokers and Agents from over an hour from the pro...
10/04/2011
Recent reports put the shadow inventory of foreclosures at near 6 Million units.  Of those the Governments Service Enterprises Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, HUD, and alike own approximately 48% of those foreclosures.  What I have seen in the past 30 days is alarming.  Those houses are flooding on to t...
09/17/2011
I was reading an AR blog this morning about how much a Short Sale Specialist thinks BPO Agents are pricing property incorrectly. My comment back was He Who Lives In Glass Houses Should Not Throw Stones.  Who prepared the CMA to list the short sale in the first place?  What makes that different fr...
08/13/2011
Let's start with the fact that around 80% of the short sale listings should not even be on the market for the reasons listed below and more. This weekend I showed several properties.  The clients had found a short sale listing on the Internet that I was not going to show them for several reasons ...
08/02/2011
Quick question:     How many of you have dropped your old static web site in favor of an interactive blog site?    
08/01/2011
I passed my brokers exam back in 2001 after having practiced real estate for over 10 years working for franchises, chains, and independent brokers.  Once I struck out on my own I needed to figure out not only how to make a living but also how to make a difference.  The National Association of REA...
07/30/2011
Depending on what State you live in it takes more than 1500 hours to become licensed to cut someones hair.   Yet recently we have had resistance and difficulty getting real estate professionals to sit still for one day to learn a new skill or work on improving their current skills.  You would hav...
07/25/2011
This morning I received an offer from Raj at Incubator, Inc to do BPO's for $18.00.  Are you freaking kidding me? I am a professional and I do not work for minimum wage.  I have watched the fee for BPO's drop like a stone over the last 3-4 years. We were paid $50-100 which was a reasonable fee fo...
07/04/2011
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Step back in time to 1986. You may remember that Yolena Bonner, wife of the famed Soviet dissident Andre Sakaroff came to this country for heart surgery, not available in what was then the USSR. As she was ending her convalescence and pondering her return to rejoin her husband in exile, she wrote...
06/13/2011
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