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Matt Grohe, RE/MAX Real Estate Concepts, 8020 Douglas Ave Urbandale, IA 50322. Matt is licensed in Iowa.
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2010
Some fogies among my readers will recognize these lines from Jimi Hendrix's immortal classic "Are you experienced?"I chose these lines because the topic of "experience" has been bandied about quite a bit here as of late. It seems that if you're not an "expert" you should just sit out life on the ...
04/10/2010
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Might be called daffodil! Who knows exactly why this colorful spring flower got its from the mythical greek figure Narcissus, who, as legend has it, became so entranced by staring at the reflection of himself in a pool of water that he died of starvation. What we do know here in Iowa is that when...
04/07/2010
According to the most recent statistics from the Iowa Professional Licensing Bureau, the number of applications for real estate licenses has fallen to a three year low. In the entire state there were only 525 applications for new licenses in 2009. The most recent records show that Iowa has 3,761 ...
04/05/2010
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Every time this happens to me I can't quite believe it. It goes like this: I'm in a house with clients, we're looking around discussing the home's features, etc, and then we hear foot steps and voices. We go to look and surprise! There's another agent with some clients. They saw someone was viewi...
04/05/2010
New treasury department guidelines for short sales took effect today which is welcome news to many borrowers, real estate agents and bank personnel nationwide. HAFA or the Home Affordable Mortgage Alternatives program aims to provide alternatives to buyers to avoid costly and credit dystroying fo...
04/05/2010
The most recent statistics from industry sources generally agree that at a minimum, 24% of borrowers with mortgages currently owe more on their homes than they will sell for on the open market. Some sources even say the figure may be as high as 34%. With about 47 million mortgages out there, that...
04/04/2010
Jobs. The economy. Communities. Small business. Manufacturing. Energy. These topics are on the forefront of everyone's minds these days. But for the folks at the Iowa Department of Economic Development, or IDED,they are always on the front burner. The IDED is Iowa's economic development arm charg...
04/04/2010
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Matt Grohe is with RE/MAX Concepts, 8020 Douglas Ave Urbandale, IA. Matt is licensed in Iowa.