Most home owners in the Seattle area are in a short sale situation. Meaning of course that if they sell their home now, it will not sell for enough to cover what is owed to the bank. There is a lot of debate whether it is better to let a home go into foreclosure, short [...]
I am on Zillow, Trulia and a variety of other web sites on a regular basis. What I am noticing today is a good number of complaints from home owners posting on Zillow that buyers are freaking out and killing deals based on home value ‘Zestimates’ that Zillow puts out. The reality is that the [...]
Many times when people list their home for sale, they let emotion and the sales pitch of the listing agent get the better of them. It is understandable to want to sell your home with as little pain as possible and for as much money as you can get. The problem arises when the listing agent is [...]
There is a lot of talk and panic out in the world right now. People are unsure of the economy, depressed about their retirement accounts that have been gutted and some are literally afraid that the policies coming out of the White House are going to throw us into civil war. What is a person [...]
According to Google today, I am Lynnwood Washington’s #1 Real Estate Agent! I am honored, shocked, amazed and pleased! I even beat out Yahoo. I honestly don’t know what to say! OK, so Google really isn’t the final word in determining who the #1 real estate agent in Lynnwood really is but it is a [...]
Something that I am seeing more of lately, are sites that promote themselves as ‘the only place to search for foreclosed homes’. There are dozens of sites and all are hawking their lists of pre-foreclosure and bank owned homes for every city in Washington. The fact is, that most of these sites are there, not to be [...]
You are missing out on the first really great real estate investment seminar of the year, going on in Bellevue right now!
Good news for anyone that is needing to sell a home for less than what they owe in Washington state (aka short sell.) According to the News Tribune: Department of Revenue communications director Mike Gowrylow said the department will now only levy taxes on the actual sale price of the property not on the amount [...]
Selling a home yourself (FSBO) takes more than just exposure. Don’t be fooled by FSBO websites that try to sell you on the idea that exposure is all you need to get your home sold.
As I sit here contemplating how many people we are cooking for and what we are going to make for Thanksgiving, I have realized that the holiday spirit I usually enjoy doesn’t seem to making an appearance. With everything going on such as the economy, the horrible real estate market and never-ending pile of bills [...]
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