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Tuesday, November 16, 2010

A Random Act of Being Neighborly - Taking the Lead in Protecting Your Neighborhood's Value

I read an article today that I found fascinating.  It was just a little snippet of an article, only 4 short paragraphs.  It was entitled, “Survey:  Well-Kept Yards Most Important Factor...

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Tuesday, November 9, 2010

Reasons a Bank Might Agree to a Short Sale


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In the last 3 years I have been confronted or involved with short sales for a variety of reasons.  While most people  understand The definition of a short sale.  [A short sale is...

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Friday, September 10, 2010

ValleyWideShortSales.com


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Local Agent Provides Free Information Resource to Phoenix Area Homeowners Facing Financial Hardships

New Web site presents options for homeowners confronted with the possibility...

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Monday, August 2, 2010

Negotiating: It's more than just price

Maybe I am just getting old, but it seems that the older <wiser hopefully> I get, the more I realize that some things in life that I thought were black and white, or simplistic are actually multi-faceted,...

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Saturday, August 1, 2009

Welcome Electronic Signatures

Welcome electronic signatures and DocuSign to the list of value-added features  to help assist our clients and customers with their real estate transactions.
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Electronic signatures have been...

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Friday, May 1, 2009

Tipping Point - Phoenix Housing Market 2009

The million dollar question for the last several years in the Phoenix Metropolitan area is "when will the housing market hit bottom?"  This leads us to ask, "how does one define the 'bottom of...
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Friday, April 3, 2009

Conveying Title with 'Special Warranty Deed' on Foreclosed Home

When conveying title on a resale home in Arizona the seller will usually convey title with a ‘general warranty deed‘; an exception to this is when that resale home happens to be a foreclosed home. ...
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Tuesday, March 24, 2009

What kind of value does 'Expertise' add? Can you measure it?

I have a confession to make.  It is sometimes a struggle for me to put into words the value that being a local full-time REALTOR can add to a transaction.

I can describe the process I go through with...
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Friday, July 25, 2008

50,000 and still counting down...

June 2008 brings us down to just over 50,000 active single-family listings in the Phoenix/Metro market.  We are down about 7,000 since our peak.  Good news right?  Yes, our inventory is going...
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Thursday, March 13, 2008

Heads-up if you have a home equity line of credit…

 

Yesterday while at a REALTOR tour a lender stood up and told us one of his client’s banks had closed his home line of credit (also known as a HELOC in the lending world) without warning.  A...

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Saturday, March 8, 2008

What Investors Know: Don't Wait for The Bottom of the Market...

There has been a lot of buyer anxiety rampant in Arizona the last year and a half and with good cause.  Prices have declined and there wasn't any indication that the bottome was anywhere near....
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Friday, March 7, 2008

The difference between an “Approved Short Sale” and a Short Sale

 
There are a lot of homes on the market right now, especially under the $300,000 range, advertising that they are a ‘short sale’.  In fact, for some of the searches I have done for client’s literally...
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