Home Buying / Selling December 2008 Archive

If you have a home to sell, buying and selling at the same time involves a few more steps than those first-time home buyers face, but it can also be ... Read More

At holiday parties, mall shopping or out to lunch with friends, anywhere I see people, I'm constantly barraged with questions about the falling real estate market. Everybody wants to know where ... Read More

Here's what real estate agents and brokers don't want you to know: contracts are not always 100% binding, even if the agent tells you that you can't cancel the contract. There ... Read More

It might shock you to hear a Realtor say that maybe, just maybe, you are better off renting; yet the question continues to nag: should you buy or rent a ... Read More

Not a day goes by when I don't receive an email or phone call asking me whether a lender will file a deficiency judgment after a foreclosure or short ... Read More

So your agent hasn't called you in weeks and you want to cancel your listing agreement. Can you? How do you do it? How do you fire an agent? What ... Read More

Odds are most real estate investors have never heard of a Delaware Statutory Trust. Delaware is the second smallest state in the U.S., beat out for first position by Rhode Island. ... Read More

Once I start humming the 12 Days of Christmas carol, I can't get it out of my head. Plus, for some reason, this December has been the busiest month for me ... Read More

Virtual tours are to online listings as the single photograph was to paperback-bound MLS listings. Nowadays, your home may get passed over online without a virtual tour. Some real estate ... Read More

Seems like everybody and their aunts and uncles are interested in buying bank repos today. In the market where I work in Sacramento, inventory is way down, including REO inventory, ... Read More

Earlier this year, banks were more reluctant to offer a loan modification to delinquent borrowers; however, government pressure has changed that. In fact, it's not even necessary to be delinquent, in ... Read More

Every smart home buyer today knows to submit a loan approval letter with an offer or the seller might not consider the offer. However, the quality of that loan approval letter ... Read More

There are many reasons to buy a home, but the most common is to have control of one's own space. The primary reason I bought my first home was to blast ... Read More

To effect a successful 1031 tax-deferred exchange, many sellers engage the services of a qualified intermediary. Doing a 1031 exchange is not as difficult as it used to be many years ... Read More