homes for sale in san ramon: Want to buy a house? Yeah sure, but will you get the loan? - 09/21/11 01:03 AM
Crazy day in the life of a Realtor...I say now, if you want to buy a house it is a lot easier to find you a home than getting you a loan.
What a challenge it has been in getting loans these days. In a transaction right now that is already 2 weeks past its closing date. the loan officer has been at the other end of the most vile vitriolic pouring out of my tongue but what can she do?? We are dealing with morons with the title of Underwriters who leave their brains and commonsense behind at home everyday.
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homes for sale in san ramon: When will this end... - 09/15/11 02:32 AM
The craziness never seems to end in this Real Estate market. The government has come out with nothing but failure programs; the consumers- be it buyers or sellers- everyone is under duress; the Realtors are playing scammy games; lenders want to make your life so difficult.... When is this going to End???
There definitely seems to be no respite. I could rant for hours on all the garbage inundating our industry but it is going to do no good. America is on a fire sale and we are getting bought out by other countries. Who do you think is buying in … (8 comments)
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homes for sale in san ramon: Take it or Leave it- Your choice ! - 08/24/11 07:36 PM
My silence for some time has been for a reason. The economy has not been helpful to the market, the media is droning on and on about everything negative and I am just tired of listening to bad news. Quite obviously it is scaring the home buyers out of the market. So I decided to take some down time to observe what is happening and give my own thoughts structure.
The buyers who are sitting on the fence today are actually going to be losing out very soon. Just as they always say- Buy when the media says "FIRE" ! But … (3 comments)
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homes for sale in san ramon: Did I not say it earlier? - 06/08/11 02:43 AM
I said it earlier and I knew that every word would come true. In my last blog I talked about the prices in Windemere and now we have constant price reductions happening every day. With 51 homes for sale in Windemere, there is a lot to choose from. prices are ranging from $380,000 for the smallest 1211 sq ft Joree lane home to $1,135,000.
9 Windemere homes are in the price range of 300-500,000. Out of these 3 homes have had downward price changes from - $9000 to $25,000 with only 1 home on 2114 Joree lane increasing their price by … (6 comments)
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homes for sale in san ramon: It felt like being inside a Pressure cooker.. - 05/17/11 12:48 AM
Getting hit by sales calls, sales pitches- I have come to the conclusion that I am done listening to all this chatter around me and focus on what is important. Our industry is inundated with product pushers, claiming the next big things that will make our businesses soar to a million dollar production level. I have heard hundreds of “training calls”, and what I gathered from all of it was that we are to push the sales pitch to our customers. And then the Aha moment hit me- that is why customers do not trust our fraternity.Many trainers and coaches say … (6 comments)
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homes for sale in san ramon: Windemere San Ramon Home Activity - 05/06/11 01:38 AM
In the last couple of weeks the inventory in Windemere San Ramon has been increasing slowly. It is now up to 55 homes on the market. 7 homes saw a price change; 7 are new homes; 41 homes active homes.The homes in the Shelbourne community that was built by D.R.Horton in Windemere ( opposite Dougherty Valley High School)are a cause of problems because the HOA is in litigation and no lender is giving loans on those homes. Which means cash buyers are the only ones who can buy and there are short sales coming up in that area with the banks … (0 comments)
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homes for sale in san ramon: Multiple offers in Windemere? - 04/22/11 12:58 AM
Oh Yes, its true. We are getting multiple offers on well priced properties in San Ramon. One just came on the market yesterday and already has an acepted offer today, well over asking price !!! Holy SMokes ! I have to say, again and again- Location, Well Priced and Showing well is the key to success !
While there are other properties entering the marketplace at prices that are not supported by the market and some that have already lowered their prices in the last 10 days. The funny thing is that I know of some of the houses on the … (5 comments)
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homes for sale in san ramon: Are you in the market to sell or waste your time? - 02/01/11 02:12 AM
"I want to try selling my home for the price I want"" My house is beautiful, why should I sell it for low""I have $100,000 of upgrades in my house"Plus many more dialogues that I have heard in the recent past. If you are a seller who is thinking of putting your house on the market here are the steps you need to take.1. Get Realistic- The market is what it is and there is no point fighting it.Your house is only worth what the buyers are ready to pay for it. Arguing is not going to get you anywhere2. Be … (6 comments)
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homes for sale in san ramon: Oh what a mess.. - 01/10/11 09:38 PM
Oh my, what a challenge December was… a nearly catastrophic situation turned into a happy ending and did I pour myself some wine that night. My listing on 625 Argyle court in Windemere went pending in November 2010. Everything was going well till the day we were supposed to remove contingencies. The dreaded call from the buyer’s agent came in with some bad news. The appraisal has come in but the lender HSBC will not lend $600,000 but instead they will only loan $575,000. Ok, so what do I do? I am not going back to the seller to ask for … (8 comments)
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homes for sale in san ramon: Can someone explain this craziness to me? - 02/10/10 12:38 AM
What happened to the market?? The houses that we could not give away, now have multiple offers. Over bidding , crazy offers, no appraisal contingencies seem to be the name of the game. Windemere is not the stand alone phenomena, everywhere you go it is the same story. Can anyone tell me what the hell changed?I am an expert at writing atleast 10 offers a week for my buyers and only 5% of it sticks. My conscience and my sanity tells me to stop my buyers from over bidding on houses.The economy is still not on the mend, jobs are being … (5 comments)
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homes for sale in san ramon: 2010 will see the end of new construction in Windemere - 12/28/09 10:04 AM
The nearly 7 year saga of Windemere will soon come to an end. Mixed feeling awash, sometimes I feel sad to see sales centre folks leave everytime a builder closes out a build out but at the same time I happy to see that we will see some stability here finally.Windemere started back in 2002 in the Dougherty Valley. When I reminisce back to the time of 1999( when I moved to San Ramon) and 2001, this valley was a huge parcel of nothingness, just one winding road through hills and green pastures.I still remember driving through, sometimes very fast because … (0 comments)
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homes for sale in san ramon: Windemere YTD Market Summary - 11/18/09 01:51 PM
Year to Date activity in Windemere has seen 129 sold homes reported on the MLS. Sales of New Homes sometimes get reported but not all the time. This data is based on what has been reported and I have broken it down into List Price vs Sold price vs Sold Month:
Activity indicated in the 2000-3000 sq ft homes. Here is the data :Square footage 3000-4000 sq ft starting from January to date, 2009:4000 sq ft plus activity:Out of the 129 sales reported on the MLS, 36 homes were short sales and 20 homes were Bank owned homes.Out of the currently … (0 comments)
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homes for sale in san ramon: A new disease hit us - 08/21/09 05:51 PM
This new day and age in the history of America brings forth a new disease alongside the H1N1 virus- LOUSY APPRAISALS, short for 4 letter words that I cannot use on this forum. And dealing with the worst in the business, Bank Of America- I am today openly accusing them for using Landsafe and their hand in glove deal to screw over appraisals. These damn banks want the disease to spread and want to hold values artificially under the water.Give me one good reason why an appraiser will not use a higher priced active comp ON THE SAME STREET but use a … (10 comments)
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