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I just had a conversation with a client of mine. She’s a first time buyer and she’s afraid of her own shadow. She’s trying to make the best buying decision and save money. I get it. We all want to make great decisions and save money in the process. She’s looking for an agent that [...]
Four things to do NOW if your home is in Default
Todays market is full of uncertainty – exacerbated by the media – and people are ostriching. You know what an ostrich does when it’s afraid, right? It puts it’s head in the sand. I’m not sure how great a strategy that really is for an ostrich but I know that for someone in default; that’s [...]
Flipping properties now “allowed” to help liquidate mounting foreclosures
Government suspends property-flipping rule – Jun. 13, 2008 I am not a big fan of government control – and here is a perfect example. Legislation was introduced to ‘restrict’ flipping [a symptom of the fraud occurring in the mortgage markets]. Now the government realizes that it “needs” flipping to liquidate mounting foreclosures. If I am [...]
Inventory Continues to Drop – Two Weeks in a Row – Is the worst over?
Square Feet: Santa Clara County inventory drops for a second week: Fluke or trend? MLS-generated stats, as sent to me by a couple of sources:Total number of single-family houses for sale today in Santa Clara County: 5,468Last Tuesday: 5,551Condos for sale today: 1,821Last Tuesday: 1,827 There were 338 new sales of houses and condos in [...]
Why use an Agent? I’m pretty smart and I can find stuff on the internet.
I love this question because it’s an opportunity to teach folks that they don’t even know what they don’t know. Here’s a great example that came up for me this week; I am also a writer and I was reading a fellow writer’s blog. She just got a movie deal for one of her books [...]