You all think real estate is Beemers and golf outings during the day. I know you do, but really real estate is more glamorous than that. Seriously…so much more glam. In fact, I am wearing my Vera Wang and Jimmy Choos as I type this. I will share an only slightly embellished true story…
I wrote before Thanksgiving that I think sometimes we forget that we should be thankful the other 364 days a year. With this economy, the needs of our local citizens isn’t changing because the holiday season is over. Our charities are still hurting and all of us are stretching our dollars in our…
For my two regular readers of my blog, you’ll notice that I had a writing lapse here. The rest of you didn’t even notice I was gone. Sometimes life just happens that pulls you in other directions and something has to give. Alas…this time it was writing. One of the things that threw me off…
I was supposed to write a thankful post. That’s what every blogger does this time of year, right? I’m supposed to write some thought provoking post about how I am thankful for the multitude of things in my life. Gathering dust on a shelf are those “thankful” cards I’m supposed to send out to my…
August saw a bit of a jump up in home prices from last August. I certainly wouldn’t say that home prices are appreciating in Keizer but last year was the end of the tax credit and July and August were dismal months in real estate. Home prices really couldn’t get worse than after the tax…
The average and median home prices have been hovering in the $150,000-$160,000 range for most of this year and August was no exception. With sales of more expensive homes incredibly lackluster with no change in the foreseeable future, this is going to be where home prices will continue to stay. The nice thing about August…
Oregon has long been a state that uses Trust Deeds for real estate transactions. With the ease and low cost of foreclosure for banks, it was the instrument of choice for many years here in Oregon…well as long as you follow the state laws. You’ve heard the terms, judicial foreclosure, non-judicial foreclosure, deficiency state, non-deficiency…
Floating around the real estate blogosphere is a discussion created by Chris Smith over at Inman. He wrote a post stating that real estate is no longer a relationship business. Essentially he was saying he doesn’t want to be friends with his real estate agent after the transaction. As of today there were 153 comments…
A glowing recommendation. It’s what everyone wants in their business. Who doesn’t want to be acknowledged as being good at what they do? Gallup released their latest poll about feelings about different industries. What’s up with this touchy-feely stuff anyway? Feelings, schmeelings… I’m incredulous that in this current time of real estate turmoil, that the…
Last year, at the end of June 30, the tax credit ended. July was the first independent month that the real estate world had last year and the statistics were dismal. It isn’t surprising, then, that we sold more homes this July that last July. It was kind of hard not to. That said, it…