Thank you to Natalie Washburn and the Erie Board of Realtors for sponsoring a Polley broker continuing education course on Real Estate Law. If you haven't been to Erie, I strongly recommend you visit. The beach is amazing! They don't call them Great Lakes for nothing. At my motel a few miles from
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04/28/2011
http://community.nytimes.com/comments/www.nytimes.com/2011/03/20/fashion/20Cultural.html?scp=4&sq=why%20we%20don't%20answer%20the%20phone&st=cse Wow. This article is called "Don't call me, I won't call you." It was in the NY Times last week. I thought it was just me: I consider phone calls a burd
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04/10/2011
My buyer had an 840 credit score, 20+ years on his job and 20% down. Why couldn't he get a mortgage commitment? His wife of 10 years is from Bali. She has a "green card." Last year, they lent the wife's sister $6500 in cash. To buy the new house, the sister gave them $6500 back--in cash. No bank.
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04/07/2011
My deal just blew up. The out for the buyers was a little glitch with the financing that is easy to correct. They used it to bail the day before settlement after they had a long talk with the neighbors. As far as I know, the neighbors didn't put down the house or say anything bad about the seller
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04/06/2011
