selling a house: Have you heard? I'll sell your home or I'll Buy It! - 02/22/10 12:22 AM
Excuse me!!!  Are you thinking of selling a home or a rental property in the next week, month, year?
Have you heard the pitch "Use me to sell your home and if I don't sell it in 39, or 60, etc. days, I buy it"?
Well I'm here to tell you in as soft and gentle a way possible that it's "BS"!  That's right!  I see it all over the place now.  Agents trying to get you to list with them on gimmicks and with misleading statements.
Simply put, these agents need to use these tactics because they simply do not … (0 comments)

selling a house: Our Treasury Secretary Can't Sell His Own House! - 09/04/09 08:35 AM
After telling anyone that will listen that the housing market is stabilizing and that the outlook is positive for the future, our esteemed Sectary of the Treasury decide to list his house.  For a guy who makes a living out of analyzing economic models and numbers I wonder what he was thinking listing his house for more than he paid for it at the height of the market in 04"?  Purchased for $1.6 million, he listed at $1.63 million is a market that had seen nearly a 30% depreciation during the same time.  Huh?  $1.6 @ .70 =$1.12 million.  Good math Geithner.  But … (3 comments)