Judith Abbott's (judithabbott) Blog

How often have you heard "Buyers WANT to buy.....but they HATE to be SOLD to..."  How true, how true. I hate it when I am the target of someone selling something.  Recently I have had an uptick in phone calls from West Coast Area Codes, people who are going to sell me the solution to every web-pr...

Sizing up a Duplex Deal is a whole lot more about money and the Bottom Line than about where the couch is going to fit. Buying a home is an emotional, right-brained, intuitive decision.  Buying an income-prodiucing property has to take some left-brain, bullet-point kinds of factors into consideri...

If you buy a full duplex as an owner-occupant, you can finance up to 96.5% of the purchase price.  As an investor, you will be lucky to get 80% financing. Mortgages.  You can have up to 4 mortgages that were set up as Owner-Occupant loans to begin with.  You can move out and not have to refinance...

There are some "Rule of Thumb"s that I use in my real estate practice.  A Presumption, or Rule of Thumb, is a standard or belief that is true often enough that it is reasonably safe to begin there.  If we had to get out of bed every Monday morning of the world and make every decision we ever made...

People often misunderstand the difference between "Market Value" and "List Price".  The Market Value of a home determined by how much a Willing Buyer will pay a Willing Seller.  Period.  I have just gone through an experience with an anxious and nervous first-time buyer where we had to make offer...

Most people would agree that people tend to either be Cat People or Dog People.  I have been thinking about another division:  Mountain People vs Ocean People.  One or the other has a way of feeding a person's soul. I remember the first time someone told me that she was an Ocean Person.  I was a ...