What do you tell your sellers or  buyers about aluminum wiring if you find it in a home you are selling ?

It seem that there are 3 solutiuons to the discovery of aluminum wiring in a home.

 

1. Get the wiring replaced ( cost LOTSA $$$)
2. Get the wiring pigtailed (Still cost Mucha $$$)
3. Have a certified Electrician check each ourlet or fixture to verify that all wires are secured tightly.

 

In my 25 years of selling, I have had all 3 options occur. I am looking to see what you did with your last experience?

In today's world of residential sales you may find yourself waiting and waiting to get an answer on an offer from a seller and then approval from the bank. As a buyers agent, I submit the offer and hope to get an answer within a couple days or a week. The seller may be all in favor of the offer but may not have the $$ to pay off their mortgage. This is when we hope that the bank will agree to take less than the amount the current seller owes, also known as a short sale.

As a buyers agent, many times there is no reply from the owner. The listing agent may not give written feedback because the seller cannot agree unless the bank agrees to take less. In Ohio all offers must be presented to the owner. Many short sale listing agents do violate this law.

Suspicion quickly leads many agents and buyers to believe that their offer never was presented or it was shopped. If I as a buyers agent press for an answer, the listing agent could avoid me completely. This would not be ethical but it would take allot of time and effort to file an alleged ethics charge.  If there is no violation then I really look like a fool, as well as having burned a relationship.

 

What to do! Your thoughts? Would you do anything different?

That was a first! We have heard that we lived near a fault line.  Many years ago many people bought earthquake insurance. There was someone who predicted a quake but nothing happened in the predicted time frame.

About 5:30am the bed started shaking. My wife and I both sat up and then we could hear our glass mirror doors shaking. No damage at all. I was trying to figure out if the wash machine or dryer were on.

 

What did you feel?

Do You know where your Real Estate agent is?

 

 

 

I love email and the net but my email box is jammed full of property flyer's, price reductions, and open house flyers. I do not want to black list these agents but please, someone find me the no flyer spam box!!

Let me know if you have any suggestions! We have 5760 agents in our board at the moment.

 

Sincerly

 

Kevin Duffy

ReMax Unlimited

Cincinnati Ohio

This is not a typical day in Cincinnati. However, today we may be having the largest snow of the 2008 winter. The forecast calls for 3-5 inches of snow today and 3-5 inches of snow tonight. Prior to this storm, we have had storms that brought less than 4 inches. Most of our snow does not last for more than 2 to 3 weeks before it melts.

This link will show the latest weather in Cincinnati as well as the normal weather cinditions for Cincinnati.

 

 

Anderson Ohio residential sales. Look at the stability here. I would be surprised to see other communities beat this consistent average sale price increase.

 

Year	# of Sales	Average Price
2,000	598	$        225,609
2,001	664	$        218,585
2,002	674	$        231,149
2,003	653	$        243,670
2,004	641	$        254,099
2,005	687	$        263,252
2,006	615	$        280,753
Year to date Oct 30 2007	487	YTD $289,368

I have been doing a survey of my friends asking them if they have ever heard of Facebook.com . The responses are surprising. Most parents who have kids that are 9 years old or older know what Myspace and Facebook are about. If you talk to a teenager or college student most will tell you that they do not know any of their friends that do not have an account.

Listen here to hear why James uses Facebook.com   http://www.utterz.com/~u-NTAwNzEyMA/utt.php

What ever you type, say or photograph is copied forever! 

 

 

The National Association of REALTORS Board of Directors approved a provision that allows REALTOR-affiliated multiple listing services to ban members' use of the terms "MLS" and "Multiple Listing Service" in Web site addresses, company names, e-mail addresses and other marketing materials.

NAR is giving the local Realtor affiliated multiple listing services the OPTION to enact this ban.

 Are you kidding me? Realtors are the good guys! For the past ten years, hundreds of businesses have found ways to sell Realtors leads off our own listings.  Outlawing these terms gives the outside lions new domains that Realtors are not allowed to use anymore. With this new provision, NAR is allowing every large broker driven power hungry MLS become a Barney Fife of the internet.  The truth is that some agents and brokers have been out done in regards to exposure and lead generation.

 

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBuPQgV8yBM

This week I had a house in Pierce township, ohio at 1107 Lang go pending after 14 showings. This took less than 5 days. I think this just proves that if you have the right price and condition and marketing. Reguardless of how bad people say the market is there are buyers!