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3 Winterizing tips you may not know.

October 31, 2011

Tweet Winterizing your home can be a painstaking task, but let me tell you, not winterizing your home is worse. The Spokane area starts getting freezing temperatures in late October, but a prudent home owner will want to have winterization well under way prior to any cold temperatures. Here are our three often over looked [...]

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3 Essential Land Buying Tips

October 28, 2011

Tweet Call me strange, but I think land ownership is the coolest thing. Having space around you, dirt, freedom, air. It’s hard to explain. But it’s not all peas and carrots, you need to be careful when buying land. One might think that the absence of a structure means no inspections are necessary, but it’s [...]

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5 Tips to moving success

October 26, 2011

Tweet Let’s face it. Moving sucks. But it’s a time to start anew, to start fresh in a new place. It’s a time to cleanse. Many of us cleanse our bodies, drinking chalky or powdery substances to forcefully rid our bodies of toxins, things weighing us down… “junk” in our systems. Chemically, we can be at balance [...]

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Four Tips to better Real Estate Photos

October 21, 2011

Tweet Photos can be tricky. I would compare my photo “knowledge” to that of “street smarts.” I’ve taken photos of hundreds of homes, I have certain ways I like to do things (some of those may make photo experts cringe), most of what I’ve learned I’ve learned on the Streets. My four real estate photo [...]

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Why what you think you know about home inspections may be wrong.

October 10, 2011

Tweet You’ve just got an offer accepted on the home of your dreams. You’ve been advised to hire an inspector to look at the home, but most people don’t understand the true scope of a home inspector. Myth 1: Home Inspections are Code Inspections Generally speaking, a home inspection is NOT a code inspection and [...]

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Fannie Mae & Freddie Mac Owner Occupancy Rules: 3 things you need to know.

October 7, 2011

Tweet We get a lot of questions from investors looking at Bank Owned Properties. There is a lot of confusion around the owner occupancy rules surrounding many FNMA and FHLMC owner occupancy requirements. It’s not uncommon for the bank to restrict offers to owner-occupied buyers in the first one to two weeks of the initial [...]

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Owner Financing – 5 things you should know.

October 5, 2011

Tweet One of the more common financing methods in the down market is owner financing. Typically an Owner Finance option is available to sellers who own the property free and clear, or sellers who have banks allowing a seller financed wrap on the existing mortgage, the former is usually the case though. The interest rate [...]

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Personal property in Real Estate Transactions

October 3, 2011

Tweet It’s bound to happen. A nice shiny piece of personal property catches the eye of a potential buyer and they HAVE TO HAVE IT. I’ve written more personal property in my deals this year than any other year, and this could be because sellers are ever more slim on their bottom line, and as [...]

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5 Ways to overcome listing fatigue

September 30, 2011

Tweet I’ve seen it happen, an anxious seller painstakingly prepares their home, bends over backwards to get it ready and sets completely unreasonable expectations of themselves for showings. Two weeks into the listing, they are tired, stressed and none of their original plans are getting done. The lawn isn’t mowed, they aren’t making their bed [...]

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3.8% Tax on Property Sales to fund Healthcare Bill?

September 28, 2011

Tweet I can’t tell you how many times I’ve had people tell me this over the past few months, scared sellers telling me that there is going to be a 3.8% tax on the sale of their house in 2012 to pay for the health care bill. I thought to myself the first time, “Now [...]

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