This is the 1,000th blog posting! (not counting the 726 that were deleted when we changed to the current Wordpress format) THANK YOU FOR MAKING BUBBLEINFO.COM A GREAT EXPERIENCE! To celebrate, here's another bloopers track, with some terrible singing towards the end:...
About a month ago (June 14th) we featured a video of REOs not on the open market yet: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEb3TtG7DDs They had been foreclosed earlier in the year, and that tour revealed a few reasons why they had not hit the market yet - still occupied,...
Remember this RSF house that listed in December as a short sale for $799,000? Even though it's Hacienda Santa Fe (non-Covenant), the price sounded reasonable, and they did have offers. It was marked pending the first week of January. But in March it came back on the...
People have asked about the condos in downtown Oceanside that are being auctioned tomorrow beginning at 3pm at the Carlsbad Sheraton, which is an interesting choice. Why wouldn't you do it on-site so buyers could get more emotionally-involved? Do a big breakfast bash...
The 679-unit Vantage Point complex in downtown San Diego had been taking $25,000 deposits since 2004, but could only generate a couple of hundred buyers - not enough to qualify for Fannie/Freddie financing (needed 70% pre-sold). The builder, to their credit, refunded...
A reader asked the other day about listings being excluded from the internet. Schahrzad has the story: http://www.californiahousingforecast.com/commentary/2009/7/16/10-of-listings-are-missing-on-internet-search-sites.html San Diego listing agents now have to choose...
Here's the youtube video on the Fallbrook REO. Turns out that this house has been vacant for months, which happens more often than I would expect - not everyone is working the free-rent program. List price is undetermined at this point, but it'll need to be sharp,...
I guess this little gimmick didn't work out as planned. They listed today for $599,900:
These owners bought this Bressi Ranch home new for $1,109,000 in July 2005, financed 90%, and refinanced three times since. I'm fairly certain that this is the seller that called in mid-2007 asking about an offer-to-purchase that was presented to her by a certain...
We've been on the road the last few days, but back in the saddle now. While gone, Wifey and I were discussing comments left last week about doing more videos. I appreciate the encouragement, because the videos are my favorite part of the blog. They bring an instant...
