Raiza Schwartz's (duhawk) Blog

Arizona monthly market Real Estate report for sellers and buyers, Phoenix Arizona, Ahwatukee Arizona   Below you will find the Arizona Monthly market Real Estate report for seller and buyers.  I feel as a individual thinking about listing your home, you need to know what is going on in the market...

What is my waiting period after a Post Foreclosure, Short Sale, Bankruptcy, and Loan Type? Phoenix Arizona, Ahwatukee Arizona Many former home owners who have filed bankruptcy, experienced a short-sale or foreclosure, often email as to when they would qualify for a home loan again.  This is a ver...

  Top 11 Reason’s you should List during the Holidays.   11.    By selling now, you may have an opportunity to be a non-contingent buyer during the spring, when many more houses are on the market for less money!  This will allow you to sell high and buy low.   10.    You can sell now for more mon...

Should you Rent or Buy a Single Family Home?  Phoenix Arizona, Ahwatukee Arizona.     Should you Rent or Buy a Single Family Home?  It is cheaper to pay rent on a single family home or pay a mortgage on a single family home?   This article compares the average monthly rent paid for a rental compa...

Section 8 Housing The housing crisis initiated President Theodore Roosevelt to develop Section 8 housing; when in 1937 the great depression caused so many families to lose their homes, forcing them to live in “Tent Cities,” (communities of tents).   I believe that Section 8 housing has held a neg...

Mortgage backed securities, FHA loan limits I just want to give some tid bits about Mortgage backed securities, and FHA loan limits (two separate topics correlated to lending). Mortgage backed securities, rates keep rising but it’s not a bad thing.  Mortgage rates are still low compared to a year...

Foreclosure freeze-Phoenix Arizona, Ahwatukee Arizona.   A nationwide moratorium (a legally authorized period of delay in the performance of a legal obligation or the payment of a debt), was induced after one of the largest banks, Bank of America, ceased foreclosures nationwide. The sound of a t...

Emotional, not just a financial matter anymore; what a Short Sale/distressed property entail. Phoenix Arizona. First we must define what a short sale is, a distressed property.  Once we can define a distressed property we can properly address a Short Sale.  A distressed property could be in poor...

  One Stop Nutrition, Ahwatukee, Arizona, is by far a different type of nutrition store.  One Stop Nutrition, located off Chandler Blvd. and the I-10 is not yo0ru typical health store.  Fitness and attaining a well-balanced body is what most people strive for when going to a supplement store.  No...