No matter which lender is holding the note to your home, you are going to need to write a hardship letter if you want to sell your home via a short sale. It’s an important task but it shouldn’t be daunting, even if most of us don’t write much more than e-mails and Facebook updates. What is a hard
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08/02/2011
Chalk this one up to the spouse, at least in part. This was one of those days. If you're in the real estate profession, I likely don't need to say much more than that. But I will, if only so you can come to know how Dory - the blue fish from Finding Nemo - became my laptop wallpaper this afternoo
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08/01/2011
Every day, someone turns to an online forum looking for specific advice as to whether they should short sell their home in Glendale or let it go to foreclosure. Truth be told, there’s not a one-size-fits-all solution to that answer. It’s often pointed out that Arizona is an anti-deficiency state,
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07/31/2011
We’re done as far as closings with Friday being the last business day of the month. Here’s where things stand as of the moment here in the Phoenix real estate market: Single-family detached homes in Maricopa County are now down to 13,310. I’m still calling the bottom here at 12,750; we’ll see wha
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07/30/2011
Consider this what happens when journalism major has reached the six-year mark in real estate blogging ... here are a handful of handy-dandy tips to improving your blogging: Make it worth the readers' while. While people don't want posts to read like Michener novels, they also expect more than wh
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07/30/2011
Rep. Boehner, President Obama, Republicans, Democrats, Tea Partiers, etc., It seems you're having a little bit of trouble deciding what to do as we stand now a few days ahead of defaulting as a nation our debt. I can help. I'm a real estate professional and I negotiate for my supper every day, so
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07/28/2011
It's nothing personal, I assure you. The problem is this, really: This is the only photo that your agent has entered into the MLS. And while your home appears to have what we call "curb appeal," that's just not enough. Earlier today I spent a few hours with a lovely couple look for a home like yo
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07/26/2011
Once upon a time before I became a real estate agent I was a sportswriter. In fact, to this day I still write free-lance articles for the Associated Press including spring training coverage of the Milwaukee Brewers and Texas Rangers. This past March, I was walking from the press box at Maryvale S
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07/25/2011
It was an idea that started about a year ago and led to the creation of Real Estate 1 Point 5.com ... Real Estate 1.5, unlike the RE 2.0/Social Media wave, recognizes that technology is little more than a means to an end. Technology provides the introduction but technology alone isn’t sufficient
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07/24/2011
... at least when it comes to inventory levels. No one who has attempted to purchase a home over the last couple of months needs to be told that inventory has been declining steadily since the spring. As of this morning, there were just over 13,600 single-family detached homes for sale across all
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07/24/2011