fresno: Fresno housing market has foreclosures, but remains tight – USATODAY.com
- 12/15/09 10:58 AM
The housing market in Fresno is still fraught with foreclosures, posting the nation’s 15th-highest rate in the third quarter, according to RealtyTrac.com. That means the market there is saturated with available homes, right? Not quite. read the entire article here … (1 comments)
fresno: Another BAD MLS PICS Blog...
- 12/08/09 05:33 AM
Haven't done one for awhile and could not resist these. I'm sure I could find worse ones if I look but these just happened to land in my email box moments ago.
I think this means there's a shower:
THIS MUST BE THE SHOWER DOOR - NICE :)
NO EXPLANATION NEEDED HERE: THIS IS A ROOM
AND THIS IS A _____________________ (fill in the blank if you know)
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fresno: Foreclosures: Prime Borrowers Are The Latest Victims
- 11/19/09 10:12 AM
Foreclosures: Prime Borrowers Are The Latest Victims. Prime Borrowers = people like you and me. I have one client who, until recently had excellent credit, and lives in a 3000+ sq. ft. — 5 bd. / 3 ba– home, which will soon be the property of the bank. His retail business hasn’t just slowed, it’s fallen off the cliff. The retail mall he is in is becoming a ghost town. He has days when the cash register does not even ring. He asked me to sell a small (around 800 sq. ft) 2 bedroom 1 bath rental that he owns free … (0 comments)
fresno: Major Home Builder Agrees With Little Known Real Estate Broker
- 11/19/09 05:37 AM
Back in April I called: FHA – THE NEW SUPRIME LENDER Now I'm not alone. Toll Brothers Inc. Chief Executive Officer Robert Toll said. “Yesterday’s subprime is today’s FHA,” It's crazy! It's OBSCENE! A first time home buyer puts in an offer for quarter of a million dollar home, puts up $8750.00 and asks the seller (more often than not: A BANK) to pay the closing costs. Closes on the the home then gets a $8,000 tax credit. Assuming you have the credit and income, buying a $250,000 home today is almost without risk and can be done … (0 comments)
fresno: Civil War Revisited
- 10/05/09 05:23 AM
Saturday and Sunday the Valley Historical Society had its annual Civil War Revisited in Kearny Park. Yesterday I attended for my very first time. I went for the 2:30 event after church. I was really tired when I got there but once those cannons started firing my fatigue fled. Below are a couple of my favorites captures. If you would like to see more, click here to go to my website.
COURTESY OF THE COMMERCIAL MORTGAGE SECURITIES ASSOCIATION.
If you're bore by stats and graphs -- don't bother with this one. But if you are curious about the current state of the Commercial Real Estate Market, then have at it! … (0 comments)
fresno: Horseback Riding in Fresno
- 06/23/09 10:53 AM
Just got in from horseback riding. Weather is absolutely perfect. In my 22 years in Fresno this has to be the nicest summer weather I have ever experienced. PERFECT weather for the equestrian. I am SO in touch with my inner cowboy! My little pony never broke a sweat.
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fresno: FORECLOSURE FRUSTRATION: Graffiti on the Walls
- 06/23/09 08:46 AM
I dont know about you but I am often fascinated by the graffiti and poetry I find on the walls of foreclosed homes. The other day I was showing a home and got this image on my cell phone. Here is the what I got:
Here it is with a little Photo Shop to make it POP:
WHAT DO YOU SEE?
Want to buy a foreclosed home in Fresno? Are you a frustrated homeowner facing foreclosure? Do you want to paint your walls? *Call me today for a free set of water color paints.
Direct: … (2 comments)
fresno: Two Blog Referrals This Week
- 06/23/09 08:02 AM
Proof that I need to keep my blog alive. It's summer though and that's not easy. It seems as though just about every weekend is booked with wedding, family reunion, or some sort of get together. I've been trying to get up to Yosemite and that hasn't worked out yet either. The day my wife and I scheduled to go up there she didn't feel well.
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fresno: Title Insurance NIGHTMARE!
- 06/16/09 06:01 PM
Check out this video of a gal who has never been late on her house payment yet is being foreclosed on. Pray you dont ever have to make a claim against your title insurance because the title insurance industry is one of the biggest rip-offs there is and the hell of it is you are forced to buy it just about every transaction.
In 2003, according to ALTA, the industry paid out about $662 million in claims, about 4.3% percent of the $15.7 billion taken in as premiums.
There will be a foreclosure prevention workshop June 11 at the Fresno Convention & Entertainment Center.
The workshop is from 2 p.m. to 8 p.m. in the exhibit halls at the center at 848 M. St. in downtown Fresno. The event is free, although parking is $7.
The session offers troubled homeowners an opportunity to meet their mortgage servicer or housing counselors face-to-face in an attempt to understand their options or devise a plan to save their houses.
The workshop is the product of HOPE NOW, an alliance of lenders, counselors, investors and others; The Federal Reserve … (0 comments)
fresno: Fresno Meet in the Middle 4 Equality Rally
- 06/03/09 11:26 AM
Fresno Meet in the Middle 4 Equality Rally May 30th, 2009 Off Topic: Meaning this has nothing to do with the Fresno Real Estate Market. I went downtown on Saturday to check out the Revfest at the Fulton Mall and on the way there I saw huge crowd gathered so I decided to check out what was going on. What was going on wast the Meet in the Middle Rally. I figure I better post these pictures before they become obsolete. Click the box in the lower left corner if you would like to see the slide show with my captions. … (0 comments)
fresno: Bargain Hunters Snap up Fresno Homes
- 05/22/09 03:28 PM
.... so says an article in today's Fresno Bee. And its true, and I have to admit that I have been behind the curve on market reporting but hope that will change. Its actually difficult to blog all that you would like when you're busy transacting business. Don't get me wrong, I haven't been THAT busy, but the beginning of the year is off to a much better start than last year. Some of the salient statistics from the article:
banks were the biggest sellers, responsible for 60.5% of the transactions in Fresno County Fresno's foreclosure rate -- reflecting … (1 comments)
fresno: More Captures From The Tarangini Indian Dance Performance
- 05/19/09 03:52 PM
This is a follow up to a recent blog I wrote about the Tarangini Indian Dance that was performed in Fresno CA on May 2, 2009. I only shared 2 pictures but now I have an entire gallery of images from the dance performance.
CLICK HERE TO VIEW
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fresno: Fresno CA And The Economic Stress Test
- 05/18/09 08:56 AM
The Associated Press recently released a map measuring the amount of economic stress being endured by each county in the nation. CLICK HERE TO VIEW As you can see, All of California has been hit hard and Fresno is no exception.
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fresno: Alan Greenspan Addresses National Association of Realtors Midyear Meeting
- 05/15/09 11:35 AM
Why the National Association of Realtors would hire the most prominent architect of the Housing Bubble to speak at their midyear meeting is totally beyond me understandable: they want to hear some someone "talk their book". Greenspan certainly has the credentials. His management of our nation's money supply fueled the bubble and lined the pockets or Realtors. How can they not love and revere him? I was particularly intrigued when I heard him say "We are finally beginning to see the seeds of a bottoming" which he immediately followed up with "NOT IN PRICES YET" Folks, I would take that as a WARNING: we … (2 comments)
Not long ago I blogged about the ducks that took up residence in our pool. Shortly thereafter my wife found an egg at the bottom of the pool. Apparently their nest was not far from the pool (probably hidden in the bushes) because this morning I went out and saw mamma duck with her ducklings. In the pool of course.
The housing market in Fresno is still fraught with foreclosures, posting the nation’s 15th-highest rate in the third quarter, according to RealtyTrac.com.
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