Gregg's Blog

Hey! Where's my Money?   Every morning about four minutes before the class bell rang signaling the start of class, young Anthony would quietly place a bright red apple on the edge of Miss Topp's desk. He has been doing that with a shy smile ever since the first day of school in Early September. O...

  When I am looking at investment opportunities in fixer upper homes I look at the following:   Good Bones.  The house has to have a solid base, something to work with; I call it good bones, as in: " This house is old, but it has good bones."  The home has  a good layout and was built with qualit...

    Focus        On the task at hand, the ball, the next step. Narrow your territory, your efforts, your to do list. It's only called work if you would rather be doing something else.     If you spend too much time working, change what you do. Answer the question you want to answer, not the one t...

This morning while I was reading the morning paper I had the TV on.  The Fountainhead, by Ayn Rand was playing on Turner Classic Movies. The antagonist to Howard Rourk, Ellsworth Touhy, meets Rourk by chance at a construction site. For most of the book Touhy has been out to destroy Rourk, the pro...

  How to Buy an REO   The topic is not how to find an REO to buy, nor is it how to determine what REO to buy. If you need help with these topics call me and let's sit down. What I want to talk about is how to buy the one you have identified.    Buying REO's is not like buying a home from an indiv...

Pre-Qualified or Pre Approved?        If you are thinking of asking us to help you find an REO home to buy ( A home already foreclosed on by the bank.) Please let us help you get pre approved for the money you need to borrow.   The difference between a pre-qualification letter and a pre-approval ...

Here are Market America Realty and Investments, Inc. in addition to our traditional sales division, we are dealing with foreclosed homes. We take over the property for the bank, secure the property, do a BPO ( A formal Broker Price Opinion), order repairs, and supervise putting the home on the ma...

Foreclosures, Chinese Drywall, Commercial Real Estate  "Because it was made that way" I grew up in a suburb of New York City, in a town where we knew all the kids in school and especially knew the when a "new kid" moved in. But it is was suburbia, not a farming town, so when one of our neighbors ...

Gail and I are spending the weekend in Boca Grande. Boca Grande is the only part of Lee County, Florida that can only be accessed by driving through another county  -unless you arrive by boat.   We drove.  If you visit Florida, Boca Grande must be on your "must see list". It is as different from ...

  Shrink, Grow or Die      I have used this expression for years. I kind of assumed I heard it someplace, but I just did a Google search on the expression and did not turn up any sage advisors quote. No matter. Maybe someone will quote me some day. In today's market we have to react, to adapt, an...