Jason Vombaur's (vombaur) Blog

When you make an offer on a house, it is accompanied by an earnest money check. Earnest money is intended to demonstrate that you are "in earnest" about purchasing the property. The earnest money check is made out to the listing company. What happens to this check?The party holding the check acts...

Many homebuyers have experienced the alternating waves of excitement and regret that can occur when the real estate agent presents your offer to the sellers and they accept it. At first you will probably feel ecstatic--unless you wake up the next morning, covered with a rash and asking yourself, ...

What is a PIMP.  Many agents are what I call a PIMPs.  These are agents at are not really looking out for the best interest of their client.  What they do is they come to your home, have you sign a contract and put a sign in your yard then never see them again.  They are PIMPS (Put In the Multi a...

Your family has outgrown your home but you have roots in the community that make it difficult to leave. Is remodeling the solution?      Get professional advice before you jump into a major renovation project. Decide what changes you want to make, and get bids from several contractors. When you h...

  When a home is purchased, title insurance is one of the closing cost items on the closing statement. This insurance protects the buyer from defects in the title that are not discovered until after the closing. There are two kinds of title insurance--coverage that protects the lender for the bal...

This something every buyer should know.  When a buyer finds a home they are interested in most agents will just be excited and write up a contract as quick at they can.  We do not feel that this is in the best interest of the buyer.  We sit down with buyer and look at current home on the market, ...

You must always be honest with your seller.  A few years ago you could over price a home and it would still sell with enough time.  When homes where going up 20-30% a year you could over price home $10,000- $20,000 and it would sell within 6 months.  In a 6 month time a home would go up $20,000 s...

I have live in Vancouver my whole life, so I may be a little swayed.  The summers here are great.  I have not been anywhere else where the weather is sunny all day and still cool enough to do activities outside.  I have spent many summers mountain bike, river rafting, water skiing or picnics with...

It seem to me that the news always loves to push negative.  They love to put a spin on everything to make it more exciting to increase their rating.  From what our team have seen, is we are back to a normal market.  I have seen many owners and agents thinking the housing market is crashing.  This...

I have seen a lot of new agents working 12 hour days 7 days a week.  They are working very hard, the main problem is they are hardly working.  They are sending all this time working and have no business.  What they are doing is not productive in anyway.  20% of effort results in 80% of results in...