Peter Tamura's Blog

44% of Harvard MBA grads indicated they were pursuing jobs on Wall Street in 2007 according to an article by Robert Weisman at the Boston Globe. It's a sad testament that our best and brightest are still opting for a career with an investment bank.  It's an exciting field and you can make a lot o...

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I had no idea how to develop this niche of the market, I thought this article was very interesting..REO marketing is where it's at in 2009, but getting started is challenging and time consuming.  Now that banks are willing to use real estate agents to sell their large stock of homes, you must car...

Just when you swore up and down that you would never do another short sale because the lack of cooperation from banks and the amount of time and effort involved, you are told that this is going to be a huge niche and you need to figure it out.  Right now the percentage of short sales that actual...

 Well, the low end market seems to be getting a lot of help these days.  With first time homebuyers (and buyers who have not owned a home in three years) getting the $7,500 tax credit, this should significantly stabilize prices in the first time homebuyer price range.  In areas like Tulsa, Broken...

I was at my listing client's home the other day and she asked if we had posted her home in the MLS. I told her of course, (it had been in there for five days) and we walked over to her computer to find out why she couldn't find her home. She typed in MLS.com, then searched area and price range so...

I sold a house to a nice couple last March, since then their daughter had expensive surgery, they got divorced, he was making the house payments on his own but has fallen behind (around three payments) and wants to talk about doing a short sale.  It's unfortunate how quickly things can unravel so...

I went to a local TV store here in Tulsa recently and bought a new TV....and receiver....and speakers.  It's amazing how expensive this stuff is.  I was thinking about the cost of the TV but the peripherals make the cost almost double. As the salesperson was ringing me up, I told him that my pare...

We'd looked at about twenty four houses, and wrote an offer on one.  It was the nicest house in a medium house neighborhood, I had some concern about regression (from real estate class, when the biggest homes in a neighborhoods values tend to regress to the mean) and we didn't quite bid high enou...

I recently came back from a CRS negotiating class.  I think it's great that negotiating classes are being taught to Realtors.  I did think that a lot of the material was conceptual, here are some things I've learned over the years, that I will share as long as you don't use them when negotiating ...