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Short Sale Adventures

My wife and family occasionally provide me with leads. They have great confidence in my professional abilities and trust in my character, so these leads can sometimes be challenging. This is a brief but still disturbing example of one of those more challenging adventures.

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Still Crazy After all These Years

It may seem like now would be a good time for any seller to just take the money and run. It may seem like any intelligent offer on real estate would be considered a gift and the seller lucky. It may seem that just about everyone gets it by now. Ahhhh..

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Attitude Matters

An associate comes into our office each and every day cheerful and smiling.  Happy to see everyone and generally bubbling over with enthusiasm. This in a down market where I have trouble even finding an associate in the office no less one with a great attitude. I of course had to corner the happy soul [...]

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2007 Foreclosure Report

On Feb. 13th, 2008 RealtyTrac released it’s year end 2007 Metro Foreclosure Report. I found it interesting enough to highlight some of it on in My Blog because I believe these stats affect each of us on some personal level. None of us are immune or isolated from the current global economy, which is a [...]

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“Project Lifeline” may be just more posturing.

The current Administration has come up with a new plan to “help folks in foreclosure”. Don’t you just love how we all become “folks” whenever politicians talk? …. Anyway , the latest brainstorm out of D.C. came last week when Treasury Secretary Paulson introduced “Project Lifeline” and, not surpisingly, Al Jackson, Secretary of HUD quickly [...]

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