More gloom and doom from the nagative press. USA says 30% of loans are "traditional" loans today compared with 2% in 2002. I don't believe it. Call me a contrarian, but I don't believe much of what I read in the USA Today. Further, what is a "traditional" loan?? If, as USA Today says, non-t
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10/22/2006
Over the years, I've had many home buyers who used and benefited by what are considered "risky" loan instruments. Most of these loans have been around for some time. They have just become more visible and popular in the past few years due to the extraordinary rise in home prices across the coun
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10/21/2006
Market conditions for real estate Lovettsville, Virginia 20180 - October 20, 2006New homes in Lovettsville are available to-be-built in apprx. 6 months. Builders are offering incentives from $10,000 to $100,000 in closing cost help and upgrades. Many builders have homes in inventory at reduced
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10/20/2006
A blog by Scott Daniels about a buyer's agent who refuses to get signatures from her buyer clients made me think of the many times our agents have been put in the same position. How far do you go to get the deal done?? In days past when everyone worked for the seller, it was easy and didn't real
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10/20/2006
PROGRESS. Little by little, I'm getting the new Homefinders.com web site organized. Things are moving slowly because I have other things to tend to, but some things are falling in place and I see light ahead. Do date I have:Reorganized the content on the main page to focus on counties, demogra
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10/19/2006
O.K., I'm committed. A re-make of Homefinders.com. What to do, what to do. Homefinders.com, in it's present permutation, is about 4 years old. Boy, have things changed since then. 1. Go through the site plan and dump URLs that are redundant.2. Create a new navigation scheme that will be ea
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10/17/2006
What is the agent's role when the house that your buyers have a contract on and the sellers refuse to (1) make repairs to significant termite damage or (2) permit the buyers to get an estimate for repairs??The saga of the termite matter is ongoing. There ARE or WERE termites. The termites have
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10/17/2006
"I DON'T DO CHILDREN". was a comment that I recall from my first broker, yeah, years ago. This was a rather unpleasant person who was very hard to get along with, I left that office after 3 months and transferred to another location with the same company. The company is no longer in business.
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10/15/2006
This has happened before and I'm sure it will happen again. I got a call from an agent in Florida asking if I would assist her son and daughter-in-law with a home search in my area of Maryland. Seems that the daughter-in-law selected me from my web site and has determined that I will be her age
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10/15/2006
I haven't been here for very long, but I'm dedicated to keeping up with the traffic. Since I work from home, I have the pleasure of popping in and reading at almost any time of the day or evening. By the time I log on in the a.m., waiting for overnight e-mail to download, which wouldn't take so
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10/14/2006
