DON'T GO TO SETTLEMENT WITHOUT IT - THE FINAL WALK-THROUGH! ATTENTION HOME BUYERS: Good advice from Cindy Jones. Don't let anyone, including your agent, discourage you from taking the final walk-through. Some of my experiences in final walk-through. 1. Home in Bowie, Maryland. Top of the lin
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10/18/2010
jOHN MACARTHUR posts a republish about the mortgage mess, IT'S TIME TO STOP BLAMING THE LENDERS. THE INTRODUCTION CONTAINS the mantra "people who bought homes they couldn't afford". HA! Blame the "people" for the mortgage mess and you'll get my attention every time. I DISAGREE COMPLETELY! Going
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10/18/2010
IF SHORT SALES ARE THE ANSWER, WHY HAVEN'T BANKS EMBRACED THE PROCESS? Why don't the banks see short sales as a logical alternative to foreclosure?? Because they don't have to. Banks are sitting on a record amount of cash, can isolate their toxic assets from their P&L, can relegate short sa
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10/17/2010
TITLE INSURANCE? Paula Hathaway writes about one hypothetical whereby a home owner would surely benefit by title insurance, adverse posession. My experiences with buyers making the decision of whether or not to buy title insurance are different but just as important. WHY DO WE NEED TITLE INSURA
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10/17/2010
TITLE INSURANCE? OF COURSE THE QUESTION WILL COME UP. NOT A PROBLEM. I had one buyer reject title insurance about 15 years ago. Not because he didn't understand the reasons why he should buy it, although he didn't, but because he was just plain cheap, a fact known to me from the beginning of
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10/17/2010
NO NOTICE? NO TIME? NO HOPE! Richard's post below is very timely for me today. There is a message on my phone this a.m. that can in at 10:30 p.m. Friday. Gentleman wants to see a property Saturday a.m. early. Clearly, he believes that we have no business, no schedule, no life. Fact is, I h
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10/16/2010
I'VE HEARD ENOUGH! PERHAPS THE COUNTRY NEEDS AN OFFICE OF PUBLIC DEFENDER FOR HOME OWNERS IN FORECLOSURE! Over the past 2-3 years since the beginning of the era of wholesale short sales and foreclosures, the real estate industry has been turned on it's head due to the effect of negative equity c
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10/16/2010
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10/15/2010
MUST READ ARTICLE ABOUT THE NATIONAL MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE DOCUMENT MESS. This article touches on the causes of the national mortgage document mess but the part that I find most fascinating is: "But Judge Powers went further than that, saying that GMAC had been admonished in a Florida court for us
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10/15/2010
GET TO THE BOTTOM OF THE DOCUMENT MESS. DON'T COMPARE IT TO THE MORTGAGE MESS OR THE ECONOMIC MESS OR THE REAL ESTATE MARKET MESS. They are completely different and diverse messes. This matter needs perspective, not anecdotes wherein one person's property rights were violated. The gentleman w
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10/15/2010
