I have engaged Jim Cronin, from the RealEstateTomato( an active ActiveRain participant ) to design a custom blog site for me . I have been in contact with Paula Henry (another active blogger on ActiveRain) that Jim just finished a site for. It is really beautiful. Mine is a bit different and uni
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05/08/2007
Last week I was called and invited to my Sellers' House Warming to day for his remodel. A number of months ago we discussed that he could not get what he had hoped for his current home and the prices on a replacement had not dropped low enough so he decided that it was time to re-fashion the cur
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05/06/2007
An Italian artist by the name of Guido Daniele was commissioned by an ad company to create body paintings of animals. My client found received these and wanted to share them. I thought you might like to see them as well. The are many different ones but I have only included a few here. This artist
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05/06/2007
A couple years ago, I purchased the Real Estate Power Tools CDs. The company was endorsed by CRS. There is one CD for the Buyers and one CD for the Sellers. They have 2 versions, one for the Internet ( to add on your web site by a hyperlink) and the other format is a customizable CD to hand out o
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05/06/2007
A Townhouse or Townhome is a style of construction, where as Condominium and Co-op are forms of ownership. A townhouse is basically a building or unit that shares a common wall with the building or unit next door. The walls are usually straight and entry is usually from the ground floor. Townhou
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05/06/2007
One of the most under used words in Real Estate. We set ourselves up as the real estate experts and we most often forget the 'Because'. Buyers and Sellers really respond to it, but we go and on about the process and then forget the 'because' word that is ultimately the most important for them to
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05/05/2007
In seeking out information from lenders and escrow, it seems that the lower end of the market is the drag on the overall housing market in San Diego county. The upper end of the market is still showing signs that is it stabilizing and may be gaining momentum. This end of the market is less volati
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05/04/2007
The Structured Sale is a vehicle to defer a big tax bite into more bite size portions. A seller who owns appreciated real estate holdings that they acquired through the a 1031 Exchange and would prefer to Cash Out, the structured sale may be just the idea whose time has come.The way it woks is si
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05/03/2007
One of the best ways to understand the Structured Sales is to think of it as an Installment sale with enhancements.Understanding the flow is easily done with the following flow chart. Permission was granted for me to use this chart from Capstone Bay as they are assisting one of my clients current
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05/03/2007
Headlines in the UNION TRIBUNE this morning is carrying a story that according to UCLA's Anderson Forcast, one of the states leading think tanks, the worst may be over for San Diego Home Prices! They are forecasting that home prices will decline by less than 2 percent through next summer ( 2008).
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05/01/2007
