I’ve been wanting to have some Salem Oregon mortgage brokers do some guest posts for me because lending is so asinine these days, I thought it best if they could help explain the new and crazy process to you all. True to form, an underwriter is nit picking a transaction about the “paper trail.” The…
Selling a home in Salem Oregon Some time ago, I was chatting with another agent about one of my homes for sale in Salem Oregon. Her client had made an offer and things were not going well for a bunch of reasons…reasons that I couldn’t tell her about. The agent was frustrated with me and…
It seems that every time I go somewhere and someone finds out I’m a Salem Oregon real estate agent they always ask me about how the downtown condos are doing. “Have any of them sold?” is often the question I get. Both The Meridian and The Church Street Condos have sold units, but we all…
I can’t believe I am writing this post because I know some real estate agent will get upset with me for talking about this, but there is a fascinating discussion happening behind closed doors at ActiveRain. ActiveRain is a real estate blogging network that I belong to. I can’t link to the post and the…
Keizer Oregon real estate trends I chatted about the Salem Oregon real estate market a couple of posts ago, but let’s take a look at where the Keizer market is for February. Technically homes sales were up in Keizer 42% in February 2010 over 2009, BUT this is just an increase from 7 last year…
I wrote on Facebook the other day that I think time changes stink. I am not a morning person to begin with so taking an hour of my sleep away from me leaves me thinking a quintuple espresso is sounding good. Between the time change and a significant problem in a real estate transaction for…
I love it when people do funky surveys. Just in case you were sitting and home and wondering who the cheaters of the world are out there, rest assured that someone with way too much time on their hands had the exact same thought. I know I sit up at 3:00 in the morning just…
Salem Oregon real estate market and home trend report Today I saw a countdown for the home buyer tax credit to end: 50 days left to get under contract. That count down has been so apparent this past month as the Salem Oregon real estate market started early. Typically I tell clients that the market…
Paul Slaybaugh, an excellent Scottsdale Arizona real estate agent, wrote a great blog post today. I wanted to comment on it because I have talked about this issue so many times in the past few years. In the world of real estate there seems to be this polarization occurring, agents like myself and John Kirk,…
“I’d like a house on a 1/2 an acre,” says the buyer on the phone. I have had this conversation with several people that want to relocate out to this area. I often find myself explaining that in Oregon, all cities are required to have an urban growth boundary per state law. I seem…
