Richard Hagar's (re_education) Blog

Editor's note: Seattle area opinion leaders have been invited by  the  seattlepi.com to participate in Seattle Views. Written by Richard Hagar  April 8, 2009 3:59 p.m.    Consider a pebble dropped in a glass smooth pond. Close to where the pebble enters the water, the ripples are big. The farther...

How mortgage brokers and loan originators interact with appraisers will change forever...and the change is massive. Today, April 2, 2009,  NAMB dropped its lawsuit that attempted to stop the implementation of the HVCC.   Details here:  http://www.namb.org/namb/NewsBot.asp?MODE=VIEW&ID=261&SnID=2...

  Foreclosures, Fraud, and Buying a Home 06/26/2008 at 10:00 a.m. Owners of million dollar homes are defaulting on their mortgages. More than one in every 600 homes in Pierce County is in some stage of foreclosure. Housing prices are down, the Justice Department has charged hundreds in mortgage f...

Richard  Hagar will be on Seattle Radio Station KUOW tomorrow morning (Thursday 6/26/08)  Topic:  Foreclosures, Fraud, and Buying a Home   Weekday with Steve Scher on KUOW 94.9 Public Radio. On air from 10-11 am   Posted by Kinja LLC Mercer Island, WA    

Real Estate Brokers (WA State) were invited to attend a meeting in Renton today.  There are many new laws that go into effect 6/12/08 affecting how real estate agents and brokers need to handle "Distressed Homeowner" transactions, short sales and foreclosures. The NWMLS and WAR are offering class...

Short Sales, Foreclosures and the NEW LAWS that went into effect 03/08 ~ What Late Night Hype (TV) DIDN'T Tell youMany of these "get rich schemes" forgot to warn people about something.....The Law(s).  If you were to follow every step these courses suggest there is a good chance that you'd be com...