Over the weekend I was discussing with a new client my outlook for 2010. He said that in person I sounded more optimistic about the market than on the blog, and I agreed. Some is due to trying to provide all evidence and let you decide, but more is due to recent...
Who do you call once you realize you've been hacked? ROB DAWG!!!! Bryce was the first to email the news, and within 60 seconds I had Robert on the phone. He was happy to oblige, and boom, here we are, right back in business! Thank You Robert! Our website designer...
The perfect REO Diet Plan: Dancing, Cocaine, Eating Prevention Device, and Swimming! I'm not sure you could split this lot. The frontage on Lone Jack is too skinny, and zoning is for multiple-dwellings, but I would think they'd insist on two-acre minimum lot size....
Here's a good example of how important it is for sellers to have a top-notch photo presentation of their house for sale. Buyers are looking for any reason NOT to buy. If they aren't in love with the house from the photos, once they drive up and see this, they won't...
People have asked, "Why do you do this?" The internet gives everyone acess to the new listings immediately, and anxious buyers rush over to see the good ones within hours of MLS input. The early intensity spooks sellers, and they don't want to deal - which usually...
From the nctimes.com, where Eric has the rather large shoes to fill of Zach Fox - note the trouble he had in finding an explanation: The median price of detached, single-family homes in North County surged 21.9 percent higher in November compared with the same month...
From the wsj.com - hat tip AL and MB! SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. -- Four years after the collapse of the U.S. housing bubble, flipping homes is back in fashion. Jon Mirmelli, a Phoenix real-estate investor, learned late in the morning of Sept. 28 that a never-occupied custom...
Back in September we featured the same floor plan a block down the street - it listed for $144,900, and was purchased for $177,000 by flippers. They have since put it back on the market for $277,000 and found a buyer within 27 days - it's now...
