Catherine 's Blog

An agent and I were thinking of starting to Farm an area. As we were talking I started thinking with all the work and money is this going to work. We are going to try to take a different approach then the usual mailer. So I have a few questions..... For those that farm are you seeing results? If ...

Okay, I'm shocked....I just priced out a 20% down Conventional with a 647 credit score, I just knew Conventional would beat FHA. NOPE, even with mortgage insurance FHA beat out Conventional. I'm not sure how I feel about this. I can remember when 647 was a good score, there are pricing hits even ...

I work with some really great agents and I recently was helping them with some buyers that were here for one week. In this one week the agents stopped everything they were doing, they must have showed them 10-15 homes a day. The buyers were determined about living in a particular neighborhood, pa...

I have taught several classes to Real Estate Agents, mainly covering new updates with FHA. I recently asked a Real Estate Appraiser to join me and answer questions of what he considers when appraising homes. This has been a successful class with a lot of people attending, each class the same ques...

So I was in a marketing training class yesterday and the lady spoke about rewarding your referral contacts. "Are you really thanking your referral contacts" she asked....in my head I was thinking that she speaks to Real Estate professionals all the time so she is just talking about picking up the...

I have to vent a little here as these problems continue to mount. I remember when lenders were the bad guys for a while, changing figures, not funding on time and having issues with over promising and under delivering. (May still be a problem there) What I have been struggleing with, are the titl...

There is a new bill that was signed by the president today that basically mirrored the old bill...except they updated the possibility of having the risk based pricing and possibility of allowing for seller-funded down payment assistance programs. I have mixed feelings about the seller-funded down...

HEADLINE NEWS -- Most Important Housing Bill of Our Generation Signed by the President July 30, 2008! The details of implementation on some pieces are yet to be decided and there is a possibility that some decisions will be overturned.  We will, of course, keep you updated.  Below is a summary of...