Wed, November 19th, 2008
Protecting Your Home, One Community at a Time
I like hearing about new community watches. Not because we need more security. Which we do. But because we need more community involvement in general. Families and individuals just getting to know each other and looking out for each other in all phases of life, not just in the fight against crime. Put it this way, a community that sets up a neighborhood watch is that much closer to being a community that people will feel good about living in. This came across a local Folsom real estate blog, about the Empire Ranch community and its new neighborhood watch. This is what homebuyers and their real estate agents love to see.
Posted by Nick Yonano at 04:50
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Labels: property value, real estate, real estate agent
Wed, September 17th, 2008
Sleep-overs for Home Buyers?
Here’s an article I came across this morning about a new trend in home selling (and home buying). Seems some buyers want to hear what sounds the house makes at night. Actually, there’s more to sleeping over in a potential home than just looking out for squeaks. How does the home, where you will be living, raising your kids, make you feel if you were really living there? The closest thing would be a sleep-over. For some sellers these days, whatever it takes! And if the home is vacant, bring your sleeping bag and air mattress and have a slumber party.
Next? Timeshares with an option to buy.
Posted by Nick Yonano at 03:22
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Labels: real estate, real estate agent
Thu, September 11th, 2008
Sacramento Bee tells a Short Sale Story
Today’s Sac Bee has an interesting article on the difficulties with short sales. It’s like many real estate agents and brokers are sitting there reading this and saying, yeh it has been tough to deal with banks, what’s new?!?. But it sounds like more and more lenders are willing to work with homeowners to avoid additional foreclosures. The next step for some of these folks is to figure out how to streamline the bidding process by cutting out some of the steps in getting an offer approved. Instead of 60 -90 days, it should only take 2-4 days to get an offer and counter through their systems.
Posted by Nick Yonano at 09:13
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Labels: Uncategorized, foreclosures, real estate, real estate agent, short sale
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