Consider yourselves warned. As The Wall Street Journal reports, that “professional card” offer you received in the mail last week may give your ego a boost, but not without first raiding your wallet. With issuing offers of such cards up 256% from last year, you may be asking yourself: has everyone become a small-business owner [...]
Archive | August, 2010
Smart Phones Make Real Estate Search Simpler
The smart phone trend does not seem to be dying down anytime soon. iPhone and Android applications are more popular than ever and becoming a go-to informational source rather than a trend for tech-savvy individuals as once thought.
The Future Compensation of Today’s Mortgage Originator
The government has finally created another great solution to stop Mortgage Loan Originators (MLO) from abusing and deceiving consumers. This new rule will likely have the same benefit to today’s consumer that HVCC and the new GFE has – more fees and higher loan costs. Is that really a benefit to consumers??? Below are the highlights on [...]
Toronto Market Declines 8%
Toronto Real Estate Market Declines 8% By Brian Madigan LL.B. (Ontario Real Estate Source) I thought that you might be interested in what has been happening with the Toronto market this year. The market closed out the year at $411,931. The statistics below show what happened in 2010, both the end of the month numbers [...]
People want to buy homes from People
Our tag line for the Columbus Home Show Team is “High – Tech with High – Touch”. Over the last couple of years we have drastically improved the High Tech portion of that tag line but along the way we somehow lost some of the high touch. We have lately realized that we have to [...]
HUD Announces New Low-Cost Reverse Mortgage
HUD had been discussing a new variation of the Reverse Mortgage program for quite a while and they finally announced some of the particulars. The program, which they have decided to call the HECM Saver, will be a limited version of the regular HECM reverse mortgage that HUD has had in place that will now [...]
6 Ways to Delay Judicial Foreclosure
I do not recommend all of these approaches for all instances. However, by using these strategies you may be able to slow the sheriff sale and do the right thing. Ohio Delay Foreclosure Method 1- Bankruptcy Bankruptcy is a kind of “ace in the hole” for delaying foreclosure in Ohio (or any state for that [...]
Give the Buyer a Good First Impression
by Marc Rasmussen – Sarasota FL Real Estate Are you trying to sell your home or thinking about selling your home in the near future? One thing you need to remember is that buyers generally do not want to purchase a “to do” list. When home buyers go shopping they generally are not envisioning hard [...]
What Does Your Website Say About You?
If you’re an agent working today, then you already know the importance of a good web presence. What you may not know, however, is what constitutes ‘good’. If you have a website, take a look at this list to make sure you’re not falling victim to technology. After all, having a megaphone is one thing; [...]
Career Opportunities in Real Estate
The current economy has many people searching for a career that can provide some security. With many businesses across the country cutting back on staff and pay, a lot of those people are looking to further their education in the hopes of finding a job with some stability. Finding work to pay the bills for [...]
For Sale by Owner
If you are planning to sell your home at the present time, does doing it yourself make any sense under current market conditions? Do you have a true and accurate picture of how competitive and how strong a buyer’s market we are in, or how fierce the competition? What do you know about competing properties [...]
Is the New Gov’t Short Sale Program Working?
Only time will tell..well the first part of the Making Home Affordable Short Sale Program was rolled out in April 2010. The HAFA program was initially thought to streamline the Short Sale Process while offering some substantial benefits to the homeowners, namely waiving the deficiency obligation to the homeowners. That benefit will eliminate most of [...]
Raising a Down Payment for Real Estate – Home Purchase
Home ownership rates have increased from 25% in the early 1900s to 67% in 1999. During all these years, many home buyers struggled to come up with a down payment. Years ago, in some cases, the banks required as much as a 50% down payment before they would give them a mortgage. Today, generally, the [...]
How to do a Real Estate – Home Search
Doing a Plano real estate search means doing some homework, but you can find out much about a property this way. A property search can turn up valuable data that you can use when writing an offer to buy. Example, I will not write a purchase contract without looking into the history of the property [...]
How to Buy a DFW Home with Good Resale Value
Do you really need to consider selling a home even before you buy it? Well, what if you decide to move or have to move? Wouldn’t you want a house that has increased in value and will sell quickly? Of course you do. Most of us won’t live in the same house for the rest [...]
How Many Clicks Does It Take?
Here at DotLoop, we’re always tweaking our system to make it as efficient and stream-lined as possible. But did you know how many clicks it takes to get to the finish line of a negotiation? Mr. Owl knows. To send a contract to a client, it takes 3 clicks. For the client to sign the [...]
A Las Vegas presepective of the housing market
Did you hear the housing market is CRASHING!?!?!…. AGAIN!!!!! This is the general reaction I’m getting from my current and past clients I’ve spoken to over the last couple of days. One thing that I constantly try to instill in my clients, is the fact that real estate is a LOCAL market. Too often the [...]
Charge Change
And finally… …some good news! No, the housing market has not returned to “normal” (if you can call the recent boom “normal”) and unemployment is still dangerously high (unless you live in North Dakota). But perhaps this recession has taught us a valuable lesson: live within your means. For the first time since 2002, the [...]
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$10000 California First Time Home Buyer and New Home Tax Credit Extended
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Unite Against the Sarasota MLS Board
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Short Sale Heaven Coming April 5th 2010
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The Lones Group – Real Estate Social Media Marketing Firm – Sues Agent For Being A Zebra
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California Senate Bill 94 (SB94): Passes; Not even Attorneys can do it!
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