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What do you know about garage doors?

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Here is a challenge for home buyers, real estate agents and home inspectors. I've posted a photo below of a side rail from a garage door. This rail tells you something about the garage that is unique. I would guess only 1 in 20 doors is like this. And it could be a problem for some home buyers.S...

04/24/2008

I have the best buyer clients in the world!

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Over the many years that I've been representing buyers I've made a bunch of friends and been introduced to a bunch of very nice people.There is a phrase that I heard from my wife back when she was in real estate and I was still in engineering, "buyers are liars". It is lucky for me that those bu...

04/24/2008

It is great to again see growth on Ann Arbor's Skyline

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Back in 2006 I posted a couple pictures of a house being moved from Washington Street downtown to Pontiac Trail near Barton. House being moved blog post Last night I was downtown and I noticed the big crane on the lot where the house had been. I thought it made an interesting picture showing the...

04/20/2008

Mystery of The Half Brown Yard

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So here is a question for you...It is April in Ann Arbor and if you look closely at some of the larger yards around you will see some big brown areas like these two pictures from our back yard. I know I've seen this in areas of Ann Arbor Hills as an example.Do you know what causes this and if i...

04/20/2008

Interesting video on Air Duct Cleaning

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I personally tend to think air duct cleaning is not all it is cracked up to be, but some people certainly believe it is important.These videos from YouTube show a little different side of the issue, that is deceptive advertising and improperly equipped service people. There are two different seg...

04/20/2008

Ann Arbor "How To Buy a Foreclosure" Class April 28th, 2008

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In about 10 days we will be having another of our classes on how to buy a foreclosure.This is not a class where we try to sell a home-study course or a seminar, this is just the real nuts-and-bolts bottom-line knowledge we've gained by being on the buyer's side for almost 20 years in these deals...

04/17/2008

30-60-90 Foreclosure List

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I received a call at the office this afternoon from "Guaranteed List". They are a list broker and they were calling to try and sell us a list of owners whose homes are 30,60, or 90 days into the foreclosure process.When told him we didn't take listings and that as an Exclusive Buyer's Agent we o...

04/17/2008

Critically Important Article to Anyone Negotiating on the Buyer's Side

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The Detroit News / Free Press ran a very informative article this last week for home buyers.It covers the inventory and absorption rates for various counties in Southeastern Michigan.If you've seen me quoted in Smart Money, The Wall St. Journal, The Chicago Tribune or other places this is the da...

04/17/2008

Upbeat feeling after visiting the Ann Arbor Building Department

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I was in downtown Ann Arbor this morning at city hall visiting the building department. And.... It was crowded!I probably haven't been there for 4 or 5 months and I was so surprised that I ask one of the other people in line who looked like a builder if it seemed busy to him. He said he was just...

04/17/2008

The Ann Arbor Real Estate Market Is A Bit Slow, But It Could Be Worse!

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I spoke to my good Exclusive Buyer Agent friend Artie Gilad in eugene Oregon yesterday and he had some surprises for me about his market.He told me 2007 had been down compared to 2006, but so far this year some segments of his market are down 35%!He said specifically that a lot of homes price ab...

04/16/2008

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