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Offer on a hundred, buy one “Strategy” discussed.

March 1, 2011

Tweet Been wanting to discuss this for a while, I hear “gurus” all the time say “Offer on a hundred and buy one!” What insight they have. The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting the same result. Where else would that work? Honestly? In the dating arena [...]

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Sunday Videos: Episode 2 The Power of Pre-Approval

February 28, 2011

Tweet Getting pre-approved for a mortgage should be priority-one when looking for a home, especially a bank owned home or short sale. Need to get approved, call us! (509) 990-7653

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Sunday Videos: Episode 1 Bank Owned Property Strategy

February 13, 2011

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When It Comes to Investing: A Good Realtor Is A Huge Part of Your Success!

February 1, 2011

Tweet By: Ellen Sanford, Guest Writer Editor’s Note: Obviously, the below described agent is NOT one of our team members. We are using Ellen’s experiences and lessons learned as a learning experience for our potential customers/clients. Many Realtors will tell you they work with Investors and they really do, but when it comes down to [...]

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Timing the market, when to sell, when not to sell.

January 22, 2011

Tweet I just read an interesting blog, discussing the appropriate time of year to list and sell your home. While I’m not overly familiar with the Georgia market, I can make a valid argument for listing during the winter in the Spokane / Coeur d’Alene markets. Take a look at the Active listing graph for 2010 (below) [...]

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As a seller, flexibility is key.

January 22, 2011

Tweet Wikipedia “Flexibility: the range of different appropriate behavioural responses a person can make in situations that he faces.” We’ve been showing a LOT of houses lately. In our journeys, we work with all types of sellers, most get it. Most will drop everything to allow an agent to show their house to a qualified [...]

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Stop Foreclosure

January 13, 2011

Tweet When we research bank owned properties here in Spokane, we often see that many of these properties went to the bank without even being listed as a short sale. Not that it’s a bad thing, but we’re just afraid that people do not know their options. Did you know that you can sell your [...]

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Multiple Offers on Short Sale?

January 12, 2011

Tweet We get this question quite often on our short sale listings when we explain the property has an offer in at the bank: “Can’t we make a better offer and beat the offer that is in at the bank?” The answer is: It depends. Here’s why. In Washington, we have a form 22SS, this [...]

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Mission to MARS

January 11, 2011

Tweet On December 29th, 2010 the Federal Trade Commission put into effect new rules pertaining to short sales which will impact many short sales in the Spokane/Coeur d’Alene areas. In a nutshell, the new MARS program (Mortgage Assistance Relief Services) puts strict limitations on the promises a short sale negotiator can make, and the fees [...]

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Face-Palm: Mixed signals on Spokane Bank Owned Homes

October 22, 2010

Tweet I’ve been getting mixed signals lately. There is a wide discrepancy amongst REO asset managers from bank to bank, and often from manager to manager inside the banks. Working with Bank Owned Homes has been interesting over the past years, but lately it’s been different. Case 1. Cash offer. Competing in multiple offer situation [...]

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