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People spend a large portion of their time inside homes and offices. In fact, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency estimates that most people spend 90 to 95 percent of their time indoors. This makes indoor air quality very important to health. Harmful gasses and particles can compromise indoo...
04/05/2009
Regardless of market statistics, good, bad, indifferent, residential home sales always follow a seasonal trend. And we are coming into the beginning of that trend. Typically, the number of home sales and active buyers hitting the streets start to increase around mid April, then spike during the ...
04/05/2009
It is not uncommon at all for buyers to not have an understanding as to what the escrow process is during a transaction or how it all works, so I decided to post this blog to help clarify. Escrow is a neutral third party that controls the flow of the purchase transaction. In many other states, t...
04/04/2009
There seems to be some emerging markets that are heating up in the Southern California market. More precisely, the $400,000 and below market for single family homes seems to be firing up. This is more than likely attributed to a combination of things the way I see it: The lowest interest rates w...
04/03/2009
Since I get asked this so many times, I thought I would post this blog explaining short sales. A short sale is when the owner on title to the property is attempting to sell the property for below what they owe on the mortgage, or below what they owe on the mortgage plus selling expenses. The owne...
04/03/2009
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Some buyers in the current market think that having more than one agent working for you is a good thing. The more the merrier, right? WRONG!! This is a recipe for disaster. There is a legal element in real estate called Procuring Cause that pretty much revolves around the fact that if an agen...
04/03/2009
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Ralph Gorgoglione
California and Hawaii Real Estate (310) 497-9407