home sales: Listings - Come Out, Come Out, Wherever You Are! - 08/31/12 06:26 AM
Listings - Come Out, Come Out, Wherever You Are!
I don't know about your market, but here in the Metro Detroit real estate market, the housing inventory is extremely low!
"How low" you ask?
Let me show you...
Number of homes on the market In Wayne County, not including the City of Detroit-
July 2009 = 9,164 Active Listings July 2010 = 7,528 Active Listings July 2011 = 6,066 Active Listings July 2012 = 5,302 Active Listings Number of homes on the market in all of Oakland County-
July 2009 = 14,530 Active Listings July 2010 = 10,794 Active Listings July … (7 comments)

home sales: C'mon agents. We can do better than this! - 11/06/11 03:13 AM
C'mon agents. We can do better than this!
About a week ago, I scheduled an appointment to show a rental property of another company. I usually have my leasing specialist take care of these but it wasn't too far and it got me out of the office a little early that day.
Anyway, I show up at the house to meet the prospective renter. She was with her sister and her younger son. They were all pretty nice people.
Then, we went into the house.

The first thing to greet us was the odor. I couldn't tell right away what … (61 comments)