Usually every year we put lots of flats of annual flowers around our yard. Begonias, impatiens, Gerber daisies, and all sorts of geraniums. Many time we spend over well over $300 on flowers. With this economy I told my wife that we weren't going to do that this year. We are planting veggies.
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05/25/2009
Being raised Catholic I thought this was funny this morning when a friend set this to me. Jesus and Satan were having an on-going argument about who was better on the computer. They had been going at it for days, and frankly God was tired of hearing all the bickering. Finally fed up, God said,
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05/22/2009
I have been helping a young lady try to buy her first home in Westland. We have been finding some good houses but the problem is that she is losing the bids. She has a limited amount of money and the price range she is in attracts a lot of investors. We have lost 2 homes lately because the cash
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05/22/2009
It was sunny, warm in Michigan but I am going off on a tangent here. I got a call from a close friend about buying foreclosures. He has been laid off and is collecting unemployment. He has some money in the bank that he is thinking about buying metro Detroit foreclosures. He wants to fix the
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05/21/2009
Oh how I hate metro Detroit short sales. I will never understand banks that control the process. One of the foreclosures agents in my office just got a listing. It was a short sale right before it became a Northville foreclosure. They had a short sale offer at $230,000 but they never got it c
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05/21/2009
I got a little surprise today. I met with some Metro Detroit first time home buyers today. They are going to be a new resident at Botsford hospital and relocating to Michigan from out of state. What surprised me is "not that they found me, Russ Ravary on Active Rain" but that they chose me on
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05/19/2009
The metro Detroit real estate market is all over the map on what is going on. I noticed one high end sub (Stonewater subdivision) has some of the highest average list prices it has had in the last year. First time home buyers are snapping up the houses under $150,000. They are using that first
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05/16/2009
Please don't try to intimidate me with your so called success. I recently closed a deal with another agent who told me twice that he closed over "800" homes. I'll tell you the story. We did an inspection and sent over what needed to be fixed. Well he replied that his clients didn't want to re
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05/15/2009
I happened to call a internet lead this morning. But I was 3 days to late. They had put in an offer on a Michigan Lake home last week. He was so proud of putting in an offer and that he was going to get the home. He just kept rattling on. I had to hide my disbelief when he told me his real e
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05/14/2009
Nothing............ Yes you heard me right. There won't be some bank official sitting there. They are represented by the closing agent. Many times the closing documents have not been even signed by the bank. The chair is going to be empty. Welcome to the cold, cold world of banking. It is mo
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05/14/2009
