A while back I wrote an article here on Short sale scams and mortgage fraud. Last night I got this comment on the blog. I am interested in purchasing a home that is listed as a "Short Sale". My agent called the selling agent and found out that the number we are about to offer is currently better
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01/14/2011
This is why I love Plymouth Michigan. They is always something going on for the local residents. So if you live in Plymouth Michigan join in the fun and enter your snow man into the City of Plymouth MI Snowman Contest. I know you can design something unique that will catch the judges eyes. S
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01/13/2011
Here is the latest list of Farmington MI foreclosures. There are currently 54 Farmington MI foreclosures and they have been on the market 146 days. Foreclosed home list Farmington MI January 13, 2011 LIST PRICE STREET NAME SQUARE FOOTAGE BEDROOMS BATHS.LAVS YEAR BUILT 17100 ALBION 609 2 1 1948 2
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01/13/2011
One of my clients sent me this email today Hello Russ Right now everything is great. I would like to pick your brain a bit actually. We are looking to do some home improvements in the early spring. We are realistic about not living there forever. In fact, I see us moving in the next five y
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01/12/2011
I read a blog about calling old customers. Calling old customers should be fun for us. It shouldn't be a chore. Did you have their best interests at heart when you sold them their home? Did you like the clients as people? Over the years some of my clients have been good friends. I try to go
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01/11/2011
As a Michigan home buyer sometimes you don't know what to look for, so here are 5 items to watch out for. I believe when you are buying a home you should try to remember out 5 items that can be very costly to repair. They are Foundation Roof Kitchen Baths Furnace If the kitchen and baths are u
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01/11/2011
As we go through life we have a picture in our head of who we are. I starting thinking about this last year when I was leafing through pictures of Marianne and I. I realized I had been chubby for over 12 years. In my mind I was still young and trim. Marianne always would say I wasn't over wei
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01/09/2011
2010 was a banner year for the City of Detroit real estate market as the average home sales price did go up. In 2009 the average sales price was only $11,318.00 and this past year it moved up to $14,431.00. Which is a little better. Gone are the absolute steals of homes under $7,000. Now you
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01/04/2011
If you want to get upset about losing a house then don't listen to your real estate agent. I have some good friends, their culture and heritage is about haggling about price. Well we saw a nice Novi home that they really wanted. It was a bank foreclosure listed at $185,000. The home was over
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01/03/2011
