There are a lot of neighborhood experts.....or so it seems.How can you tell a neighborhood expert? Well they tell you.....or that is what they say on websites, business cards and ad print. So who is the real neighborhood expert?The neighborhood expert actually knows the neighborhood. They know
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09/30/2007
When you provide real information, do they listen? Do they understand or care?I just wrote a blog about representing a buyer that had made a verbal offer before contacting me for help. I went with my new client and provided information concerning the market, financing and appraisal requirements
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09/30/2007
Recently I wrote an offer and the seller signed the purchase agreement immediately. Then came time for the inspections....the seller didn't want to have inspections. I thought that meant we may find something that was not disclosed. I had to get the sellers agent involved to make sure the sell
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09/30/2007
I just represented a buyer that had made a verbal offer to a FSBO. The buyer wanted to purchase this property and had a relationship with the owner before she died. So it was emotional and the purchase price the buyer had offered reflected the emotion.I asked the daughter of the deceased owner
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09/30/2007
In this market we are experiencing many new issues that we have not faced in years. You can write a purchase agreement that seems logical, seems correct for the market and have an appraiser have difficulty finding comparables.I recently wrote a purchase agreement on a property where I have previ
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09/30/2007
Just another open house, or so I thought.I advertised my open house 3 days preceding the actual open house with three different ads displaying the date, time and directions with contact information and a slightly different spin on the property. I also placed a cable ad with the open house inform
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09/23/2007
The midwest housing market one of the Nations best buys. The Today show with Matt Lauer hosted a segment reporting the Midwest as one of the nations most reasonable places to live and purchase homes in the current market.Further showcased was Grand Rapids, Michigan in a feature outlining home val
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09/21/2007
Homeowners Associations, this brings all kinds of thoughts to peoples minds.This is a love hate relationship. Homeowner associations were created to protect property values, to create a control element for construction size, shapes and colors. This helped to insure nothing would be produced to
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09/21/2007
Foreclosure terms, "Cash for Keys" You may not have heard of this term. Cash for keys....is a term that describes what happens when a lender forecloses on a property and then sends out a representative to get you out of the property.This happens before the redemption period has run the time you
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09/21/2007
Recently I have heard more agents say "sellers" do not understand the selling process. They have this mis-guided thought that I can accomplish whatever they ask me to do!During the listing process we help "sellers" understand the current market.We offer:We provide current market data for pricing
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09/20/2007
