List a positive thing that has happened this week to keep our spirits high. - 09/13/08 12:04 PM
We read, see and hear such negative stories during the week which chips at our morale and is just depressing.   That is why I am dedicating a post just to allow all of us the opportunity to read a positive story or two.  I will start!!
This week I was able to get 2 banks to accept a short sale.   
I listed 2 homes that will be short sales, the seller were ready to walk away from their home but decided to take Responsibility and sell it then to run from the problem!!  
I saved my buyer from a predator … (10 comments)

Closers make quick cash, Finishers make fortunes, which are you? - 09/12/08 07:37 AM
 In the past 10 years of selling real estate I have read, watched and learn all about "The Close".  From word games to analogies I have heard them all.  We as Realtors are taught to close the buyer, close the listing, close the contract, get to the closing table and get to the bank with our commission before it closes for the day.   How sad, once you look up the word close in Webster's dictionary;
1close   closed; clos·ing a: to move so as to bar passage through something <close the gate> b: to block against entry or passage <close a street>
How awful, … (4 comments)

A Short Sale Hud Headache - 09/09/08 05:10 PM
 A Short Sale Hud Headache
 I have a home that I am doing as Short Sale on.  The home has been on the market for 2+ years with 3 other realtors.  My sellers could not wait any longer, they had to leave.  The home was in an area that the seller felt had a raising crime rate, tons foreclosures and boarded up homes.  My Seller just did not feel comfortable with what was happening in the area so he purchased another home for him, his son and pregnant wife. 
 Well we got an offer on his past house and all was … (18 comments)

"Short Sales" The Realtor Cure for the Common Foreclosure!! - 09/06/08 10:12 AM
"Short Sales" The Realtor Cure for the Common Foreclosure!!
Now that the word "Foreclosure" is as common, as other less desirable words like "Cancer", "Teen Pregnancy" and "Child Neglect", it is time for us as a society to except it, take reasonability and fight it.    Like all plagues; social and medical; at the beginning many ignore both the subject and those who are infected.   But, in time the issue becomes so unavoidable that main stream society can not run, hide or avoid the problem.  The foreclosure epidemic is NOW unavoidable.   Everyone knows someone who is in, or will be in, foreclosure.  … (11 comments)