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Like so many other housing markets across the country Las Vegas, too, is feeling the adverse effects of tightening mortgage guidelines, slumping home values and skittish buyers. It's a major task to sell a property under these testing circumstances.

Real estate agents, FSBOs, lenders, whoever is selling, have burned the midnight oil in a quest to discover marketing tools that work. Wide screen TVs have been offered as enticements, vacation packages, cars etc., they've all been put into action. House auctions became popular a while back, although the results with them have been mixed.

One of the latest innovations in Las Vegas is the Foreclosure Express, simply an airport shuttle bus with appropriate signage that seats 24 passengers. To read the entire article, please click on the link in this paragraph. 

 

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Esko Kiuru
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George Souto
George Souto NMLS #65149 FHA, CHFA, VA Mortgages - Middletown, CT
Your Connecticut Mortgage Expert
Esko I have seen the vacation packages being raffled off at Open Houses, but have not run into the others.  I guess anything that can get Buyers to show up and look at houses is worth trying.
Mar 13, 2008 09:10 AM
Esko Kiuru
Bethesda, MD

George,

Some of these methods are pretty creative.

Mar 14, 2008 05:04 AM