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 After the real estate market hit a steady decline in mid 2006, home builders turned to incentives as a way to attract home buyers to their communities and to help differentiate themselves from the competition. When you start looking for a new home be sure to compare builder incentives as much as...

   Latest Data Remains LacklusterHousing starts and building permits continued to pull back in May.  Housing starts fell to their lowest levels since March 1991 while building permits declined 1.3% from the previous month.  Sluggish conditions in the housing markets also caused builder confidenc...

As a Listing Agent, one of the first rules of real estate is that you have to get prospective buyers and other Agents into the house. They won't buy - or advise others to buy - it if they don't step inside to see it. Real Estate Investors provide the only exception to this rule. They'll buy sigh...

As real estate agents, we all want to succeed.  That's a given.  But often we're so close to the daily grind of our work that we don't know where we are in our careers. Over the years, I've seen too many agents trying to move up a level in their career without being ready for it.  They hadn't int...

Why Interest Rates Change Daily    Despite what some people believe, mortgage-backed securities (MBS's) are the bonds that directly dictate fixed rate mortgage interest rate pricing. The supply and demand for MBS's is the final determiner of how fixed rate pricing is set. Just like stocks, MBS's ...

  Do you ever wonder what is holding you back? Do you ever wonder what is stopping you from having all the clients, all the money, and all the transactions that you desire?  Chances are that you have all the skills and knowledge you need. Have you ever said to yourself, "I know what I should be ...

 This was such a good article I wanted to share it.    Judy By: Mike Parker "The Internet doesn't work for me." That odious phrase is all too common among agents and brokers. NAR echoed those sentiments for 90+% of all agents when they stated that less than 10% of agents with websites were pleas...

Some day the OPEC minister will look you in the eyes and say:   We are at war with you infidels. Have been since the embargo in the 1970s. You are so arrogant you haven't even recognized it. You have more missiles, bombs, and technology, so we are fighting with the best weapon we have and extract...

Forget about another set of power tools or golf clubs. This Father's Day, give Dad the gift of online security! The fact is, a lot of people-particularly people who don't use the Internet frequently-still need some basic skills in safely surfing the Web. If the husband, dad, or granddad in your l...

There are about 2 million licensed agents. If you are one of them, you may often feel lost in the crowd. So how do you get ahead and succeed, in arguably one of the most competitive and entrepreneurial industries today. Some agents may be dummies, others part-timers, but make no mistake some of ...