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Banks these days are very demanding. For a borrower they want your right and left arm and the first born. Give them what they want and you are on your way to home ownership. Balk and you are going to be homeless.  Short sales demand even more paperwork. Give the bank what they ask for even if the...
08/04/2011
 Grand Junction Colorado is the epicenter of the Gas and Oil business in the western slope of Colorado. Our economy waxes and wanes with not only the National economy but fluctuates with the gas and oil prices. The economy is still struggling but gas and oil prices are going up. That is good for ...
07/29/2011
I run a one agent operation. I have over thirty listings. My agency is completely virtual. As I write my assistant is working on line at the DMV, updating contacts. I try to juggle work and play and a social life. If it were not for the Internet I would be a slave to my desk. Technology is my bes...
07/29/2011
The U.S. must tighten mortgage-lending rules to make the industry less risky but requiring 20% down on a home will quash the average American's dream of home ownership. A new rule under the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act provides that if a mortgage follows QRM rules len...
07/28/2011
"A house in any market that is price right will sell", has always been my mantra. In a market such as we have been experiencing requires a property to be priced to sell. How do you explain that to sellers that "have to get X dollars " for their house. Listings are easy to come by these days and t...
07/14/2011
I did not chose Real Estate, Real Estate choose me. As a child I liked to build houses, I loved Lincoln Logs. I made elaborate two story homes with, out buildings and horse barns. I had a huge dollhouse that my father made it was a replica of a Victorian house from the early 1800's. It had ginger...
07/13/2011
There are some things I have always known. How is a mystery. The phrase."buying a house on the courthouse steps" is one I always seemed to know. My childish image was a man in a suit and a clip board standing on expansive white marble steps surrounded by people vying for a bargain on a house. I g...
07/13/2011
I love what I do. I love finding the perfect match of people to properties. I give my all. I have that phone with me all the time. I am always ther for my clients. I am always marketing and selling myself and my listings. I forget to take care of myself.  I have resolved to take time for me. I ha...
07/11/2011
It’s no surprise, with today’s housing market, a lot of new leads inquiring about property on our website are interested inowner financing. Owner carry's have become a viable market throughout the Grand Valley. For the home buyer with less than stellar credit there is the owner carry or rent to o...
07/03/2011
I have a property listed as a short sale for which did a very careful market analysis. I want the property to sell and relieve the sellers stress. I listed the property in my 3 MLS boards. I put it on my websites, I syndicated the listing using Truilia,Zillow, List Hub etc. I pitched the property...
06/27/2011
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