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Tenants Now Protected In Foreclosed Rentals

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So you are home from work relaxing watching re-runs of Friends and suddenly your front door is kicked open and a big burly man with a gun comes in, points the gun at you and claims that he’s the sheriff.
Sound like something out of the show COPS or maybe a move starring Johnny Depp, but [...]

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How Do You Know if Your Realtor Is Any Good?

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From a linkedin question:
What kinds of questions might a first time home buyer ask prospective Realtors in order to gauge level of expertise and figure out who would best represent his / her interests? Assuming that no references are available, what criteria would you use?
Another response stated:
…The most important factor in finding a realtor [...]

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Why Short Sale? Short Sale VS Foreclosure

December 23, 2008

It’s come full circle, I’m loving short sales from a seller representative standpoint due to the fact that it helps get them out of a situation that could devastating to them financially.  For a long time I’ve not enjoyed showing short sales to my buyers, simply due to the hassle.  Having closed several this [...]

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NY Times – Best Time to Buy a Home….EVER?

December 9, 2008

I’ve been in Real Estate for 6 years. It’s not a long time for most at a job, but for the world of ACTUAL PROFESSIONAL REAL ESTATE, it’s an eternity.  Most of the top agents I work with have that many years, most of the ones that have gone back to their old jobs, did [...]

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What is a Foreclosure?

October 14, 2008

As many of you know the real estate market is flooded with foreclosures.  However, there seems to be some misconceptions about what a foreclosures is.  Some mistakenly think that all foreclosures are HUD homes.
HUD homes are not the only foreclosed homes out there. Foreclosed homes are often mis-categorized. There’s Pre-Foreclosure, Auction and Post-Foreclosure homes [...]

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Accountability

September 26, 2008

Unless you’ve had your head in the sand all week, then you know that there’s talk of an economic bailout that should cost you and I about $10,000 a piece. It got me thinking about accountability .
Whatever happened to personal responsibility?
As I finished my workout today I passed someone having a conversation about that [...]

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Georgia Real Estate Facts By The Numbers

September 10, 2008

In this month’s Georgia Association of Realtors magazine there was a nice reprint of RetlyTrac’s statistical information.  I thought it was well worth sharing!
8 is the Rank of Georgia out of 50 states for foreclosures.10 is the average number of years that it will take for a home’s value to double in Georgia. 
34 is [...]

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What’s A Short Sale?

August 27, 2008

I’ve gotten several questions from new buyers and other from my previous blog post about short sales that I’d thought I’d right a little something about Short Sales.
A short sale is what happens when the bank takes less then what they are owed.   For example,  a buyer buys a home for $150,000 in 2007.  Unfortunately, [...]

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