Real Estate Buying

Are you a visionary thinker? Do you look at the “big picture” of your real estate business and try to see how everything relates to the success of your business? Visionary thinking goes beyond just daydreaming. It embraces deep thinking, the working out of issues and planning for the future. And visionary thinking can bring [...]

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Anyone that can manage their payments should consider trying to hold on, even if the house value has dropped well below their purchase price. There are still a great many overextended homeowners and speculators who cannot possibly manage their payments, and for them trying to hold on until the market comes back is a foolish [...]

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The realtor spin about “pent up demand” is complete nonsense. There is probably a lot of pent up desire for housing, but demand is measured in dollars, and there is a major lack of demand with the absence of lender funds, and a large and growing “pent up supply” of foreclosures. Nobody wants to lose [...]

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If you just happen to be looking at putting your house on the market, have you thought of selling it by yourself and not getting the help of a real estate agent? There are some good things of selling your home yourself, however, there are disadvantages too. To make it simpler for you to make [...]

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Unknown to most home buyers, the agent showing you homes can offer you two forms of representation. Your real estate agent could be working directly for you as in a buyer brokerage arrangement or they could be working in the vendor’s best interest if it is a sub agency arrangement. In the buyer brokerage arrangement [...]

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As a landlord of a rental property, there are certain responsibilities which you should be aware of. If you decide to rent your residential property furnished, then it is imperative that you ensure that the furnishings, which you will be renting to your tenant, must meet a strict standard. Here is the breakdown of regulations [...]

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The difficult problem with affordable housing is how to provide it without making it unaffordable. Finance is not the answer. We all want affordable housing. There are numerous government programs designed to provide low-cost rental and ownership properties to people in all walks of life. Lenders, builders, realtors and buyers all benefit from affordable housing [...]

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When people think about Louisiana today, they may remember the devastating destruction of New Orleans and surrounding areas during Hurricane Katrina in 2005. And yet surprisingly, many parts of Louisiana are doing quite well these days, weathering the financial storms of the current recession much better than most of the country. Unemployment rates have stayed [...]

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The sales tactics of the National Association of Realtors should be examined and potentially come under the same restrictions as securities brokers through the Securities and Exchange Commission. Realtors routinely lie about the investment potential of residential real estate. People believe these lies and enter into transactions that often harm them financially. After the stock [...]

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The top 7 mistakes Realtors make while doing short sales make these listings more hassle, and far less likely to close, and end up costing agents money. Mistake #1 – Not knowing the listing is a Short Sale from the very beginning. If you don’t know that a home needs a short sale to get [...]

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