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2018
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A single gold star is only good on AR...it is the mark of a featured post. But a one star review is not what you strive for. This month's contest about reviews got me thinking about less than stellar reviews and how to handle them. I received a 1 star review from someone I nev...
08/19/2018
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Here are some down payment basics: Conventional: Minimum is 5% (there are some 3% options), but the basic for everyone with no strings attached is 5% (this goes for condos, manufactured homes, modular and single family homes). On a 2-family home, the minium down payment is 15% Minimum on a s...
08/19/2018
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I always tell people that the first step of seeing if someone qualifies to buy a home, is to check their credit. I say that it takes 3 things to qualify for a mortgage: 1) Credit -- Credit determines if you can even GET a loan 2) Income -- Income determines how BIG of a loan you can get 3) Mon...
08/19/2018
YouTube Thursdays - Branding and Subscribe Option Last week, we shared a tutuorial for adding a subscribe button and video suggestions using Elements in your YouTube channel. This week, we share another option using your branding watermark. The best part about this option - it will automati...
08/19/2018
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What to do with a bad online review It was bound to happen sooner or later depending on how long you've been in this business. I've got many great reviews & like other agents I try to put them wherever they will get looked at the most. Since I rarely look at reviews personally, I was totally all...
08/18/2018
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Many of us do this everyday. We drive home, click a button and park our vehicles in the garage. With another push of the button, our garage door closes and we enter the house, thinking our homes, cars, and personal safety are protected. We are wrong. Last week, a Realtor friend had her ca...
08/17/2018
Be On Alert When Something Sounds Too Good To Be True The scams are many and they keep coming. They are extending to mail fraud and require sending money with expectations of getting even more money back. One call I got this week was a call supposedly from the IRS about a debt I owed. The threat...
08/16/2018
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Beware agents! How fraudsters are trying to get your log in information may make you slip up if you are not paying attention and are alert all the time. We all know about those different scams and such that are trying to take money out of our pockets. And many of us are becoming more aware of th...
08/15/2018
Reduced Costs Seen for Private Mortgage Insurance In a period of rising mortgage interest rates, some good news has recently arrived from the Private Mortgage Insurance (PMI) industry ... Most of the predominant PMI companies have reduced rates charged to borrowers that finance a home an...
08/14/2018
Realtor® Safety - No Commission Check is Worth Jeopardizing Your Life We have recently gotten a lot of calls from our website - some of them quite 'strange.' So, I thought I would share a few of our tips we have implemented. My policy is to meet anyone who phones and wants tour a listing - ...
08/13/2018
