Okay I’ve been asked a lot of questions about the home buyer tax credit lately by some of my Salem Oregon clients. I saw this really great summary video and wanted to share it with you. This explains the basics of the tax credit. Now some of you have unique situations that I just don’t…
Last night a young teen knocked on our door around 11:00 asking for food. My husband and I were up, the lights were on, and we live in a nice neighborhood. The obviously well loved teen had some parents who were just struggling to make ends meet. Anyone with a teenage boy know how much…
A recently wrote a post about someone that listed with another agent because I told her that her home needed to be staged. Envisioning all of her furniture in storage somewhere and one black chair in her living room, she passed on my advice. Most often, when I recommend staging, I recommend that we use…
The Keizer Oregon real estate market has been one of the most stable markets in the Salem metro area for most of the year. While it has had it’s woes, really that market seems to have corrected for the most part. Inventory, which is an important statistic in the world of real estate, is a…
Anyone who has been around me for the past month knows that the water pipes that run above my son’s room just gave out and damaged his room. I have a 1960’s home that needs a lot of work and so I believe that if you have to open up walls, upgrade at the same…
I’m trying to come up with a pithy title for my monthly real estate reports and realize I have very little creativity in the literature department…I feel bad for my AP English teacher in high school…I appear to have fallen off the creativity wagon a bit… While I try and come up with something catchy,…
Earlier this year I “lost” a listing. That’s what we agents say when a home seller chooses to go with another company. I am a call it as I see it type of person, and with this seller, I said the words “your home needs to be staged to sell. It won’t photograph well.” I…
For those of you that have read my blog in the past, you know that I had an iPhone app that I was trying out for local Salem Oregon home searches. I wasn’t pleased with it so I discontinued using it. No more is this true. This new app is cool for iPhone users, and…
It was well known in the real estate world that banks didn’t like to take deed-in-lieu of foreclosure from sellers in trouble. Any seller that has tried to negotiate one of these in the past two years has gone up against a brick wall. It is well known in the real estate world that there…
Ten years ago or so now, we decided to leave our beloved West Hills of Portland and head down to Salem for a great opportunity for my husband. I was not thrilled, which is an under statement, about leaving Portland because everyone knew that Salem was ugly and that it sucked. Never mind that I…