Greater Des Moines Real Estate and Living Journal
Matt Grohe, RE/MAX Real Estate Concepts, 8020 Douglas Ave Urbandale, IA 50322. Matt is licensed in Iowa.
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2010
Our son walked home from school today all by himself for the first time, which would be great, if it wasn't 6 degrees outside and if he wasn't only six years old and supposed to be in an extra curricular science class until 5:30pm. Instead, he showed up at home at 3:20pm all smiles. Apparently, h...
02/24/2010
Des Moines Iowa is an Entertainment Book town. What that means, for the un-initiated, is that our market is served by The Entertainment Publications coupon book franchise. These nifty books are packed with discounts on things such as dining( numerous 2-1 deals at a large variety of restaurants), ...
02/23/2010
On Sunday we here in the metro braced for the worst. The weather forecasters trumpeted that we would be hit by a big storm front that would dump 9 inches or more on us over the next 24 hours. It would snow all day Sunday and into Monday. The town was abuzz with the news and people we're getting r...
02/23/2010
As you may have read in an earlier blog post here, January sales have gotten the year off to a bit of a slow start in the metro area. For the region, both unit prices and sale prices declined year on year. Affordable homes, those priced $200,000 and under have been selling well, but sales of hi...
02/22/2010
Many people have the mis-perception that when they sell a home short, in other words, get the bank to accept less than the mortgage value of the property in order to effect the sale, the difference is written off. Wrong. Just because the bank may allow the sale does not mean they will not pursue...
02/22/2010
Now I've gone and done it. I've started a newspaper! Yep. A real estate newspaper no less. The first edition was mailed out today to 500 lucky recipients. I've given it the catchy title of the Des Moines Metro Real Estate Journal. The newspaper is 8 pages in full color and is a tabloid sized publ...
02/22/2010
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About five years ago to the day I had an idea. After listening to an investor complain about how he had to pay to get access to foreclosure listings and to receive updates on foreclosed homes, I thought to myself, "Hey. I'm a real estate agent! I could send people that data for free! Then maybe t...
02/22/2010
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I'm not sure just when it happened, sometime around 1998 I suspect. That's when i became a PC user. It really wasn't by choice, more like an economic necessity. I needed a new laptop and only had about $700 to spend. Online I found a great deal on a new ACER model with a huge 3gb hard drive. I ha...
02/22/2010
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I've been working improving my lasagna for, well, I guess as long as I've been making it, or about twenty years. The thing about making lasagna is that you have to be dedicated. It's not really practical to make a small lasagna, so you have to be willing, if need be, to eat the entire 13 x 9 batc...
02/21/2010
Well we're halfway through a new month already! January, we hardly knew you. Anyone in the area knows that the weather could have been more cooperative for selling homes. According to the Iowa Climatology Bureau temperatures averaged 13.7 degrees, or 4.1 degrees below normal while precipitation w...
02/18/2010
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Matt Grohe is with RE/MAX Concepts, 8020 Douglas Ave Urbandale, IA. Matt is licensed in Iowa.