Jacquie Cliff – Professional Seattle Area Real Estate Broker

For sellers, a real estate short sale is much preferable to a foreclosure in the area of credit impact especially if you are planning on buying a home again in the future. Other situations may warrant simply doing a ‘Deed in Lieu’ where homeowners hand the keys back to the bank or even allow the property to go into foreclosure. Of course you should always consult with your tax person or other financial advisers before deciding what to do.

I have occasionally come across residential brokers that have been lazy. Taking a couple days to return calls or dragging their feet on paperwork, but overall, commercial real estate agents take the cake when it comes to outright apathy and down right unresponsiveness. While working with several different commercial agents over the past year, I [...]

With three weeks before her auction date, we quickly got the home on the market and started looking for a buyer. Then I called the bank and found out the bad news. Her bank would not look at any offers or postpone the auction with less than 15 days on the clock. If she had called me sooner we could have prevented the foreclosure and kept that off her credit record, which will make buying a home in the future much easier!

From my perspective if I had an agent that couldn’t even keep flyers in the box, I would be mad! Don’t real estate agents care enough to market to the people that are curious enough to stop and pick one up?

Yes it does happen to us all that occasionally they will all get taken and we can’t get out to put more out for a day or two. But we all have seen the listings that have gone weeks or months with no flyers for potential buyers to grab.

On Trulia recently a FSBO seller asked if this ethical and obviously desperate action by a ‘real estate professional’ is normal.  I would hope not, but would not be surprised if it happened with some regularity. Is is common for licensed Real Estate Agents to remove signs for owners that are selling by owner? My [...]

Buying a short sale home? Be willing to commit to to deal! In the state of Washington, this occurs on the 22-SS Short Sale Addendum.  You need to agree to commit to that purchase for a set period of time to allow for lien holder approval.  Now, if it takes longer than what you agreed [...]

Wild Waves, the Seattle area’s destination theme and water park, today unveiled a new pink paint job on their 125-foot I-5 Dive Skycoaster, part of a unique partnership with the Puget Sound Affiliate of Susan G. Komen for the Cure®. Wild Waves will donate proceeds from each ride to the Komen Puget Sound Affiliate. The I-5 Dive is one of Wild Waves Theme Park’s signature rides, which offers thrill-seeking daredevils a 125-foot plunge and swing alongside I-5. The ride has been a landmark for the theme park on the busy interstate corridor for over a decade.

I am always happy to pass along community events like this one! EVERETT — McClain Insurance Services in Everett and PEMCO Insurance are offering a flag exchange program to the public. Residents can replace their tired, frayed or faded flag with a brand new one simply by dropping off their old flags at 10410 19th [...]

Not all agents are selling short sale properties, but I do and because of that I field a lot of questions from buyers that have never encountered short sale listings before.  In fact, asking them about their experience with short sales homes is one of my first questions. Because so few buyers are educated in [...]

Banks Lie About Helping Borrowers! Recently a local Snohomish area family that I have been working with to sell their home found out that their bank had been lying to us for months about accepting a deed in lieu of foreclosure if we couldn’t find a buyer for their home. For the past several months, [...]