The Gurrola Team: Updates and Info

Last week I read this article about a billionaire in India that just finished building himself a new home...a twenty-seven floor home to be exact. That's not exorbitant at all. The house in Mumbai cost Mukesh Ambani $1 billion and is a total of 400,000 square feet. There are only 6 people living ...

There's a new article in the LA Times today that raised some interesting questions about paying on your underwater mortgage. Across the country, millions of homeowners are still making payments on their underwater mortgages. The article characterizes this as a huge problem because that money is b...

The current state of the economy is doing interesting things to my income and business model. At the height of the housing market, I had one assistant. She worked exactly twelve hours a week doing print marketing and basic things like setting up meetings with clients and other realtors. I was mak...

For awhile now, I've been wondering what it takes to get your blog featured on ActiveRain. I've been writing blogs at least twice a week for quite awhile and I feel that they're relevant and interesting for the real estate industry. However, I've never been featured. As I dwell on this personal f...

There are all these companies out there that are certifying people as short-sale experts, but who is certifying them?  Since when is there a measurable standard for how short sales are done? There are so many people getting these certifications but at the end of the day it means nothing. One hund...

I have a client who keeps asking me for money! He started off asking for $5,000.00 and now is down to asking for $1,000.00. This client is not a past client nor is he a buyer. He's a current listing/seller of mine and I'm beginning to not want to work with him. The listing is a $700,000+ listing ...

Sometimes when homeowners look into selling their home, they have a bloated understanding of what their house is actually worth. It makes it much harder to actually market and sell the property if the owner fundamentally disagrees with the price suggested by the realtor. Also, if the homeowner is...

Have you ever gone to a property to take listing photos and been completely at a loss for how to make the property look livable? Some owners just have no idea that to make their house marketable, they have to do some work of their own. Just doing some decluttering and minor staging using their ow...

Some of the nation's largest banks have been pressured to halt foreclosures and investigate their practices based on the possibility of there being mistakes in the handling of some paperwork. These halts are only effective in the 23 states where courts have jurisdiction over the foreclosure proce...

There are several new laws that will go into effect on January 1st, making some changes in how different situations will be handled. One law will prevent a first deed lender from going after a deficiency judgement from a seller after a short sale. If the lender accepts a short sale, it will mean ...