buy a home: 3421 W. 9 Ct, Lawrence, KS 66049 - 12/04/06 09:53 PM
Priced at $160,000 which is over $10,000 below county appraisal. House was built in 1973 on the south side of a quiet dead end street and is located on the west side of Lawrence. Sunset Hill Elementary, West Junior High, and Free State High are the schools. All window coverings stay … (3 comments)
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buy a home: 1704 Cypress Ct., Eudora, KS 66025 - 12/04/06 09:41 PM
http://www.1704cypressct.com/ will take you to a 3BR 2BA ranch Visual Tour. Be sure to see the wonderful sunsets! $160,000 is the asking price. The home has two to three non-conforming bedrooms in the finished basement which gives over 1800 sq ft living space. Move in ready.
Thanks!Rob Lang, ABR, ePro, GRI Realtor®Realty … (2 comments)
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buy a home: 4416 W. 25th Place, Lawrence, Kansas 66047 - 12/02/06 10:55 PM
http://www.4416w25pl.com/ will take you to a visual tour of a nicely landscaped with roses and perennials 3BR, 2 BA home located on a quiet street that does not go through except to loop around to 24th Place. The home is right next door to Sunflower Elementary and Southwest Jr. Hi. With … (0 comments)
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buy a home: 5750 Yankee Tank Ct., Lawrence, Kansas 66049 - 12/01/06 12:04 AM
http://www.yankeetank.com/ has a visual tour and feature sheet on this beautiful lake view site.
This 2.6 acre lake view property is just waiting for a new owner to come in and enjoy the quiet Alvamar Lake setting (formerly Yankee Tank Lake). There are two spacious bedrooms and the second one could be divided … (4 comments)
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buy a home: Kansas: Lawrence, Baldwin, Eudora, Lecompton, Tonganoxie, Wellsville - 11/30/06 11:47 PM
Hi Members of the Referrals Only Group,Welcome to The Referrals Only group. My name is Rob Lang and I would love referrals for the Lawrence KS, Eudora KS, and Baldwin KS area. My contact info and designations are below. I will be in constant communication with you and your referrals and … (0 comments)
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buy a home: Portable Printing or Writing an Offer on the Hood of Your Car - 11/23/06 12:29 AM
Sometimes it is just plain inconvenient to have to return to my office with my clients to print out offers, sellers disclosures, and other documents. Enter the world of portable printers. While I have been seen carrying my doorstop HP Laserjet 5 printer (38 pounds) into a client's home in the … (4 comments)
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buy a home: Who to use for Business Cards? - 11/23/06 12:01 AM
Last year I tried http://www.overnightprints.com/. The business cards were my design, fantastic colors, glossy, thick, calendar on the back, UV coated, and 2000 were $89. I go to re-order this year and everything was right there on the website from my previous order.
The whole process was very easy and my emailed … (4 comments)
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buy a home: To info tube or not to info tube; that is the question and other Philosophies of Real Estate - 11/21/06 11:40 PM
"Whether tis nobler in the mind" to have an info tube (box) or not seems to be a question of philosophy among Realtors®. We can probably all come up with dozens of reasons to use info boxes but I have heard more than a few times a reason for not using them. It's not … (17 comments)
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buy a home: All Realtors® need to stop selling homes - 11/17/06 10:38 AM
If I walk up to a consumer and try to sell them a new watch or a new car or in my line of work a new home, I will always fail. It's all psychological. It's all in their head. Consumers are looking at things from the perspective of "NO SOLICITING", "DO NOT CALL", … (0 comments)
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buy a home: Hey AR community...let's make a website for renters to help them become buyers on www.Renters2Buyers.com - 11/14/06 11:45 PM
I recently bought the domain name http://www.renters2buyers.com/ and am seeking help from the AR community as to what to put on the website. Maybe one of the best services Realtors® can provide is helping move renters into becoming buyers. I've often said, renters are already buyers but they are just buying … (8 comments)
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buy a home: New Home Energy Saver Website and Savings Calculator - 11/13/06 08:10 AM
There is a new Home Energy Saver Website and savings calculator out now at http://hes.lbl.gov/. There are no cost and low cost tips that you can pass on to your clients or simply pass the link on to them. This link will be innext month's newsletter that I mail out. I … (2 comments)
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buy a home: 80% of buyers search for homes online - 11/13/06 08:07 AM
80% of buyers search for homes for sale online so why should I advertise in the paperor expect a sign in the yard to sell my home. The buy a home process haschanged. The potential buyer types in a search phrase such as LawrenceKansas Real Estate or whatever city they are … (8 comments)
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buy a home: How many Realtors® have been startled (or worse) by a pet when showing a home? - 11/09/06 12:32 PM
I was showing a home to a couple and opened a door for them and just as I started to enter the room I saw something out of the corner of my eye. A doberman had just slipped through a pet access flip door to the outside and was heading over … (6 comments)
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buy a home: Who Do you Use for Investment Coaching? - 11/07/06 09:10 PM
Who is being used the most for investment coaching? Realtors? Fellow investors? Accountants? Friends?
Do you attend investment classes? How have they helped?
What tips have you learned that are most worthwhile?
Can we get a top ten tip list going? Would getting an understanding of the true value of the property be in … (5 comments)
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buy a home: Want to SELL a home? - 11/06/06 09:15 AM
What is especially unique about listing your home with me is that I will set up a domain with your address (such as www.YankeeTank.com and www.WorldClassBassFishery.com and http://www.501indiana.com/ and http://www.809elm.com/). I then highly publicize and promote that domain name to help you sell your home. Lawrence homes for sale, Lawrence real estate, Lawrence … (0 comments)
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buy a home: If You Could Live Anywhere in the U.S., Where Would That Be? - 11/06/06 09:05 AM
"If you could live anywhere in the U.S., where would that be?" is the question being posed to the AR community. I'll start with mine. As of July this year, I have now been in every one of the 50 states.
While each state has places that I would love to visit … (5 comments)
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buy a home: What are the Benefits of Using a Buyer’s Agent? (All in one place) - 11/06/06 07:26 AM
Home Buyers: Rather than having to read through no less than 25 blogs to see all the advantages of using a buyer’s agent, I am asking for the AR community to assist in compiling a master list. I have started the list here but read through all the comments by other … (2 comments)
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buy a home: How Effective Are Newsletters? - 11/05/06 03:26 PM
To Consumers: What makes an effective newsletter for you? In other words, what type of news would you like to see in a newsletter sent to you by a Realtor®?
To Realtors®: How many do a newsletter? What is the best item that you have found gets the most feedback when you … (4 comments)
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buy a home: What's in Your Domain Name? aka How about sharing your domain name(s)? - 11/04/06 01:30 PM
Yes, I altered slightly a slogan that we have all heard too much. But I'm hoping we might spark each other into some creativity in domain names. I set up a domain name for all my listings. Some are more creative but usually I just use the address.
Realtors®, how about sharing … (12 comments)
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buy a home: How many Realtors® out there have doubled up? - 11/04/06 01:11 PM
When people learn that I am a Licensed Realtor® and a Licensed Private Investigator, I get raised eyebrows. I then explain the advantages they have of representation from a Realtor® investigator that has been trained to dig deeper and provide due diligence on insurance claims, property issues buried in archives, fraud … (0 comments)
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buy a home: How many Realtors® offer thank you gifts to buyers and sellers? - 11/03/06 12:39 AM
How many Realtors® offer thank you gifts to buyers and sellers and what do you offer? I have found a local grocery store that has a home on a gift card and I use it to let buyers buy their first groceries with it for their new home. I have bought a … (2 comments)
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buy a home: Don't use listing and buyer agents - Contact sellers directly and avoid the commission! - 11/01/06 02:41 PM
Before you all ban me from AR, this is what a new online company is telling consumers to do. I am not in favor of this company nor the practice of consumers contacting sellers directly to make an offer. They even provide the links to local appraisers' offices to get the names … (5 comments)
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buy a home: So You Want to Be a Property Investor, eh? Three Quick Tips - 10/30/06 09:44 AM
This is probably a topic where there is a lot of advice no matter where you turn. I'm not here to tell you that I have anything new but maybe these insights will spark your desire to reconsider investing in real estate. I hold classes on this subject and the comment … (1 comments)
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buy a home: Rob's Listings - 10/30/06 09:13 AM
www.YankeeTank.com 2 very large bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 2-car garage, 2.6 acres All appliances, fireplace, wood burning stove, large 30x40' heated and A/C’d outbuilding for recording studio, workshop, or storage, tennis court area, Alvamar lake view, wildlife, birding, garden, fisherman’s paradise. 1 mile west of Wakarusa Drive on Clinton Parkway. Seller has … (0 comments)
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buy a home: Every buyer and every seller I work with buys or receives a home warranty. - 10/30/06 08:30 AM
I'm a firm believer in home warranties. I have always bought them for pc's and figure why should a home be different. With the higher liability potential in homes, it just makes sense.
Every buyer and every seller I work with buys or receives a home warranty. It is not an option when … (0 comments)
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buy a home: Avoiding PMI - 10/28/06 10:31 AM
I almost made the title "Avoiding PMI Insurance" but I knew Jason in my office would jump all over my case for saying "Private Mortgage Insurance Insurance".
My wife and I bought a home but didn’t have enough money for the 20% down payment at the time. The PMI was only going … (0 comments)
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buy a home: I've Got Some Great News to Share with my AR Community - 10/27/06 11:51 PM
For the past three days I have been taking the ABR course and elective. The elective was my last course for my GRI so I now have that GRI to add to my ePro designation and in a few weeks I should hear back from Chicago that I can use the ABR designation. … (9 comments)
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buy a home: Time to Learn from the Buyers and Sellers - 10/27/06 11:01 PM
We are usually sharing tips we have learned but this time I would like to turn the tables. I have a request for all the buyers and sellers out there. I'd like some help with some ideas on rider signs, the smaller panels that go on top of Realtors'® yard signs.
Here … (0 comments)
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buy a home: Visual Tours - 10/26/06 09:41 PM
One of the best things we can do for both our sellers and our buyers is to get photos and Visual Tours on our listings. I take that one step further and with the sellers' permission, I take photos and Visual Tours of listings without them to give to my buyers as … (3 comments)
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buy a home: All Realtors® Are Not Alike - 10/26/06 09:29 PM
One of my lenders offers a home buyers' course and I offer one as well. I also offer an investment property course. Offering no obligation, free classes on various topics helps buyers, sellers, and investors to make informed decisions.While there is a lot that can be learned from AR blogs and … (0 comments)
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buy a home: Be well networked with lenders - 10/26/06 09:11 PM
One of the best things a Realtor® can do for buyers is be well networked with lenders. Below is an actual email I sent out to some buyers that had been turned down by lenders because they were new at being self-employed. I have x'd out names and numbers but I … (1 comments)
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buy a home: Rob's Listings - 10/25/06 10:47 PM
Rob's Listings points to my listings but I can provide a feature sheet like this one that highlights the properties that meet your search criteria. Email or call me with what you are looking for in the Lawrence Kansas real estate property market (also serving Eudora Kansas, Douglas County Kansas and … (0 comments)
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buy a home: Lawrence Kansas Home Market Report - 10/25/06 08:32 AM
This area is in a buyer's market. With 677 properties for sale, buyers have plenty to choose from today and for quite a while in the future.I would be happy to show you which are the better picks on the market by sharing with you county info, sales info, sellers' disclosures, … (0 comments)
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buy a home: Want to Find Out More about Lawrence Kansas? - 10/25/06 08:29 AM
The number of websites about Lawrence Kansas keeps growing and growing. There is:http://www.visitlawrence.com/ and http://www.lawrence.com/ and http://www.lawrenceks.org/ and http://www.lawrencekansas.org/ and http://www.larryville.com/ and http://www.lawrencechamber.com/ and http://www.usd497.org/ (schools) and http://www.6newslawrence.com/weather (weather) and http://www.lawrence.lib.ks.us/ (library) and http://www.ku.edu/ (University of Kansas) and http://www.ci.lawrence.ks.us/ (City Services) and http://www.ljworld.com/ (City Paper) for starters.Don't forget to visit http://www.lawrenceregionhomes.com/ … (0 comments)
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buy a home: Thinking about Moving to Lawrence Kansas? - 10/25/06 08:27 AM
http://www.douglas-county.com/AboutDC/utilities.asp is a website link that you will want to check out if you are moving to Lawrence Kansas to buy a home or rent a home. You will want to check out http://www.ihaveaddresses.com/ to actually search for homes. Simply fill in your search criteria on Property Search below my photo … (1 comments)
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buy a home: Google Tip 3 Finding a Phone Number and More - 10/24/06 08:16 PM
In the last two tips, I shared with you about uploading videos of the insides of homes and viewing satellite images of homes. This time I will share with you about finding phone numbers for people or places on Google. At the Google search engine, type in the name of someone or some … (0 comments)
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buy a home: Google Tip 2 Satellite Views of Homes - 10/24/06 07:58 PM
In the last tip, I shared with you about uploading videos of the insides of homes. This time I will share with you about the satellite views available on Google maps. At the Google search engine, type in the address of a home along with the city and state and hit … (0 comments)
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buy a home: Google Tip 1 Video Uploads - 10/24/06 07:52 PM
While many of you probably know all about Google and its fantastic capabilities, I will just share a few things that may be of help. http://video.google.com/ allows you to upload videos. Before subscribing to a virtual tour company, I uploaded videos taken of the insides of homes for non-local buyers so they … (2 comments)
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buy a home: Money Management Tip 3 - 10/23/06 09:27 AM
Some times the only thing you can do after trying every other money management tip is to get a second part-time job. The extra income will allow you to buy a home instead of rent. By taking a part-time job, you will be able to invest your wages in a home … (0 comments)
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buy a home: Money Management Tip 2 - 10/23/06 09:27 AM
Try to reduce your debt to 36% of your income or less. If more than $36 of every $100 you earn goes to make your rent or mortgage payment, car payment, school loan, and credit card debt, you need to back off on the amount of debt you have if you … (3 comments)
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buy a home: Money Management Tip 1 - 10/23/06 09:25 AM
Here's an eye opening experience if you have never done this before. Get a small notepad and carry it with you wherever you go. For an entire month, write down every penny that you spend including a nickel for the parking meter, a pop from a vending machine, all the way … (0 comments)
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buy a home: If You Can Make the Payments, You Can Buy a Home Tip 3 No or Low Down Payment - 10/22/06 09:29 PM
As I mentioned in Tips 1 and 2, when you think about it, it just doesn't make sense to buy a home for someone else and yet that is exactly what renting is. Renting is buying the house for the landlord instead of buying the house for yourself. If you are … (0 comments)
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buy a home: If You Can Make the Payments, You Can Buy a Home Tip 2 Lease to Own - 10/22/06 07:11 PM
As I mentioned in Tip 1, when you think about it, it just doesn't make sense to buy a home for someone else and yet that is exactly what renting is. Renting is buying the house for the landlord instead of buying the house for yourself.You've seen rent to own and … (0 comments)
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buy a home: If You Can Make the Payments, You Can Buy a Home Tip 1 Share a Mortgage - 10/22/06 06:57 PM
When you think about it, it just doesn't make sense to buy a home for someone else and yet that is exactly what renting is all about. Renting is buying the house for the landlord instead of buying the house for yourself. I will be sharing three tips with you in … (0 comments)
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buy a home: Offer to Purchase Contracts 101 Tips 9-12 of 12 - 10/21/06 07:53 PM
With home selling and buying being one of the most important decisions one makes in their life, it is a good idea to know what items to look out for in an offer to purchase contract. Realtors® should be experts on checking the following items but buyers and sellers are the actual … (0 comments)
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buy a home: Offer to Purchase Contracts 101 Tips 5-8 of 12 - 10/21/06 07:51 PM
With home selling and buying being one of the most important decisions one makes in their life, it is a good idea to know what items to look out for in an offer to purchase contract. Realtors® should be experts on checking the following items but buyers and sellers are the actual … (0 comments)
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buy a home: Offer to Purchase Contracts 101 Tips 1-4 of 12 - 10/21/06 07:49 PM
With home selling and buying being one of the most important decisions one makes in their life, it is a good idea to know what items to look out for in an offer to purchase contract. Realtors® should be experts on checking the following items but buyers and sellers are the actual … (0 comments)
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buy a home: How to Move from Renting to Buying - Tip 3 I'm not sure I want to stay in this area that much longer - 10/20/06 11:24 AM
Continuing from Tips 1 & 2 where I wrote: Why rent when you can buy? Typical answers are: 1) My credit is not good enough, 2) My job is not secure enough, and 3) I'm not sure I want to stay in this area that much longer. I have addressed #1 … (0 comments)
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buy a home: How to Move from Renting to Buying - Tip 2 My job is not secure enough - 10/20/06 10:51 AM
Continuing from Tip 1 where I wrote: Why rent when you can buy? Typical answers are: 1) My credit is not good enough, 2) My job is not secure enough, and 3) I'm not sure I want to stay in this area that much longer. Last time I addressed #1 and … (0 comments)
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buy a home: How to Move from Renting to Buying - Tip 1 Bad Credit? - 10/20/06 09:03 AM
Why rent when you can buy? Typical answers are: 1) My credit is not good enough, 2) My job is not secure enough, and 3) I'm not sure I want to stay in this area that much longer. Addressing these three answers will be the topics of the three tips in … (0 comments)
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buy a home: Negotiating Tip 3 -- Time to Think It Over - 10/18/06 10:09 AM
Time moves rather quickly, or so it seems, in this day and age. We grab the remotes and want instant changes to our channels. No more walking over to the tv and manually changing the channel. If a website takes too long to load, we go on to another page. However, we … (2 comments)
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buy a home: Negotiating Tip 2 -- Make sure the buyer is pre-approved or better yet pre-qualified for a loan. - 10/18/06 09:56 AM
One of my selling points to my prospects for listings is to state that Realtors® should always check to see if a buyer that is requesting a showing is pre-approved and that I ask my buyers this question. I try to make this a standard practice when I schedule home showings to … (1 comments)
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buy a home: Negotiating Tip 1 -- Everything's Negotiable - 10/18/06 09:43 AM
I am stating the obvious (Everything's Negotiable) but sometimes we forget to remind our buyers and sellers this simple fact. Maybe items like closing costs, inspections, home warranties, and the like seem like trivial matters when it comes to the overall cost of the home.
However, these items can add up quickly. … (0 comments)
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buy a home: Home Warranties Tip 3: What Makes It Likely that a Home Warranty Claim Will Be Denied? - 10/17/06 01:55 PM
I always tell my clients that a home warranty covered item must have been in use, to get broken, and then to be claimed just as I have been told by a home warranty salesman in my area. For example, if an a/c claim is submitted one month after the January … (0 comments)
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buy a home: Home Warranties Tip 2: Home Warranties are Not All Created Equal - 10/17/06 01:53 PM
Here are just a few of the things you should check on with your home warrantycompany:1) What are their claims paid to claims received ratio?2) How much does the company have in reserve assets to cover claims?3) If there is zoned heating and a/c, does the warranty cover both HVACsystems?4) If there … (0 comments)
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buy a home: Home Warranties Tip 1: Netting out the Broker Referral Fee on Home Warranties - 10/17/06 01:51 PM
A couple of home warranty companies that I have worked with have allowed Realtors® to net out the broker referral fee; thus lowering the cost of the home warranty. If the broker referral amount is $75 and the cost of the home warranty is $380 then the amount due at closing … (0 comments)
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buy a home: So What Good Is a REALTOR® Anyway? - 10/16/06 08:20 AM
Only real estate licensees who are members of the NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS® are to be called REALTORS®. REALTORS® honor and abide by a strict code of ethics.
Typical real estate transactions in Douglas County average around $184,000. Wouldn’t it be best to put a REALTOR® to work for you who has … (0 comments)
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buy a home: So what were you doing at 3 seconds after 1:02 am on April 5th, 2006? - 10/16/06 08:16 AM
Three seconds after 1:02 am April 5, 2006 was a once in a lifetime moment. At that time it was 01:02.03 on 04-05-06. That’s right, it was April 5, 2006 and at three seconds after 1:02 am it was in a sense 01-02-03-04-05-06. It is kind of like when your new car … (0 comments)
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buy a home: What’s a BRETTA? - 10/16/06 08:12 AM
For about 12 years there has been a law that requires REALTORS® to fully disclosure the working relationships and legal obligations between Agents and their Clients or Customers. The Brokerage Relationships in Real Estate Transactions Act (BRETTA) clarifies these relationships between brokers, buyers and sellers.
REALTORS® are required to provide a copy … (0 comments)
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buy a home: Thinking About Buying a Home? Tip 3 - 10/14/06 03:02 PM
Thinking About Buying a Home? Tip 3 While finding the best lender and Realtor® are both very important as were described in "Thinking About Buying a Home?" Tips 1 & 2, another important consideration is whether to have the home inspected. There are two main inspections that are conducted in our … (0 comments)
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buy a home: Thinking About Buying a Home? Tip 2 - 10/14/06 02:10 PM
While finding the best lender is very important as was described in "Thinking About Buying a Home? Tip 1", it is also equally important that you pick the best Realtor®. Think about it, if you had to pick an eye surgeon (hopefully you won't but my wife and I have had experience … (0 comments)
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buy a home: Thinking About Buying a Home? Tip 1 - 10/14/06 01:17 PM
If you are thinking about buying a home, one of the first things you should do is consult with lenders and mortgage brokers. Determine how much of a monthly payment you can afford and then find out approximately how much of a mortgage loan for which you qualify. Find out which lender or … (0 comments)
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buy a home: Thinking About Selling Your Home? Tip 1 - 10/12/06 10:00 AM
Visit my http://www.letrobdoit.com/ website and click on the “Virtual Market Analysis” link found right below my picture. Fill in the blanks and click on the “Get Virtual Market Analysis” button. My website will then show a very general comparison on how your home compares with other homes in your zip code … (1 comments)
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buy a home: So what's an ePro? - 10/11/06 11:09 PM
Back in May, I received the coveted ePro designation. So what's an ePro you ask?An e-PRO is a REALTOR® who has successfully completed the e-PRO training program for real estate professionals. Endorsed by the National Association of REALTORS®, the e-PRO course teaches professionals the nuts and bolts of working with real … (5 comments)
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buy a home: Why is it the time to buy a home - 09/20/06 10:20 PM
Because you need a place to live, and there are tax savings would be a good start. But how about the fact that interest rates are still at a low point. Maybe the fact that sellers are more willing to help with closing costs and to negotiate on the price. Remember … (0 comments)
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buy a home: Taking out buyers - 08/10/06 03:06 PM
Is it me or are there more buyers out there right now? I tell you, I am working with about 7 or 8 buyers right about now. Maybe 2 or 3 of them are serious, I have taken some out who have seen one or 2 properties and now have given … (0 comments)
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