Have you ever been to a specialty store, say a vitamin store, and found the person helping you saying, “I don’t take vitamins”? This doesn’t seem likely and if it did happen, you’d probably prefer to talk with a person who had actually taken the vitamins, knew the effect of the vitamins and could [...]
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May 18th, 2011
May 18th, 2011 | Tags: Buying real estate, Refinance, residential | Category: Escrow | Leave a comment |
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January 28th, 2011
One of my hobbies has always been to snoop around houses for sale. When I was younger, it was to dream about what my home might some day be like. Now, I still do it for fun but also to know what is happening in our market. I’ve noticed on the rainy days, I’m not [...] January 28th, 2011 | Tags: Buying real estate, Marketing, Mobile technology, Real estate Brokers, Technology | Category: Brokers-Agents, Technology | Leave a comment |
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January 21st, 2011
Is your head spinning? The way people are doing business is changing so fast. It is all at once cool and potentially overwhelming. Last week at Inman News Connect in NYC, Chris Smith from Tech Savvy Agent shared that THIS year, 10-17% of your business will come via mobile devices. This means [...] January 21st, 2011 | Tags: Apps, Brokers-Agents, Buying real estate, Google, Technology | Category: Brokers-Agents, Technology | Leave a comment |
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September 26th, 2010
Watch out for this one gang. As we see more short sales, this addendum may cause us all some headaches unless we understand it clearly. In the past, people have sold their homes, gotten their cash, paid their bills and moved on. Now, in the event of a short sale, there isn’t [...] September 26th, 2010 | Tags: Buying real estate, closing process, Real estate agents, Short Sale | Category: Brokers-Agents, Escrow, Short Sales | Leave a comment |
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August 9th, 2010
Short sales comprise around 30% of the closings we see in our office and there doesn’t appear to be an end in sight! In talking with agents, I find they either want to know everything about them or want to avoid them like the plague. If you are considering dipping your spoon in the short [...] August 9th, 2010 | Tags: Foreclosure, Real estate agents, Short Sale | Category: Brokers-Agents, Escrow, Short Sales | Leave a comment |
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March 8th, 2010
It blows my mind that homeowners want to sell their own property in this crazy market! I imagine that when you come across a “For Sale By Owner”, you have to walk a tight rope. You can’t be too pushy…but you also want to offer help. If you’d like to engage in conversation with a FSBO [...] March 8th, 2010 | Tags: For Sale By Owner | Category: Brokers-Agents, Uncategorized | Leave a comment |
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February 25th, 2010
Reading a title report, to most, is like reading assembly directions in a foreign language! Often time real estate professionals do not understand that the title report has important information to help them determine if they are dealing with a marketable property! The industry encourages you to order preliminary title as soon as you take a [...] February 25th, 2010 | Tags: Title Issues | Category: Title | Leave a comment |
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January 19th, 2010
I was thinking about title and escrow and how baffling it must seem to a typical buyer or seller. Really, when you think of it, it is this strange place with strange people where one signs strange documents and a normal person (probably not strange) must leave after they sign documents and just “hope” they [...] January 19th, 2010 | Tags: closing process | Category: Escrow, Title | 2 comments |
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About the Author Claudia OllestadEmail me : claudia.ollestad@ctt.com |
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