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New home sales in and around San Antonio Texas for information for the public and fellow real estate practitioners. Includeing single family homes, HOA, POA, horse properties, small ranches, river front, lake view, metro city, downtown, and new construction/new homes. Serving the Greater San Antonio Area including Alamo Heights, Alamo Ranch, Bandera, Boerne, Bulverde, Canyon Lake, Castorville, Dominion, Helotes, Hill Country, Hollywood Park, LaVernia, New Braunfles, Olmos Park, Shavano Park, Sonterra, Stone Oak, Terrell Hills and more.
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TRAINING..TRAINING..WE DON'T NEED NO STINKING TRAINING.. We had to cancell a back to basics one day real estate training boot camp in Los Angeles County in the Antelope Valley today. Why, well because either the audience of real estate agents was either not interested or felt they did not need an...
08/24/2010
ARE YOU AN INTERNET THIEF? Yesterday I replied to an AR Blog that had a full length ZZ Top song embedded into and playing at the end of the post. This is stealing even when it is not intentional.  Song writers and artists depend on royalties for much of their income and when you use their materia...
08/18/2010
In an earlier post on REO's I heard many replies about the condition of REO's during the listing period. The master agreement between the listing firm and the lender/seller almost always calls for utilities on in the brokers name for inspections through the close of escrow except for HUD properti...
08/08/2010
Just read on Sean's Blog on Foreclosureradar.com last night that revealed a study was done that concluded that foreclosures sell for 20% less than market value.  I have a few issues with this study as follows: 1. Isn't market value what a buyer will pay for the median home in a market?  If the ma...
08/07/2010
So today I received a call today from another past student who attended our Silver Lining Workshops intense two day live REO training course who was solicited by yet another "pay to play" so called third party REO Asset Management middle man company.  DO NOT PAY THESE GUYS!  This one wanted $295....
07/26/2010
When is a short sale Pending?  The lender is not a principal and does not sign the contract.  The seller negotiates with the buyer through their agent in good faith and then submits the offer to their lender for 3rd party approval.  The process is longer and more difficult to complete as we all k...
06/23/2010
If anyone wonders why they may be loosing business take note of what happened in my office less than 10 minutes ago.  A very friendly lady just popped in and tried to sell me advertising in one of our local phone directories.  Not a problem so far.  Here is the rub.  She had her bra straps hangin...
06/21/2010
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Many blogs are now being written about the dip in foreclosure numbers in hardest hit states like California, Florida, Arizona, and Nevada.  Problem is that sometimes the numbers do lie.  Sure the amount of properties canceled (postponed) in California have risen due to all the government interven...
06/17/2010
OK, I woke up in rant mode this morning.  No wonder.  First I see that the government cancelled 80% of the HAMP loan mods in the pipeline yesterday and then I get a RED ALERT message from CAR asking me to call my State Congress Representative to pressure them to sign a bill that would allow the f...
05/25/2010
HOPE, HAMP, HARP, HAFA, maybe HAHA is next. I know I should not be saying I TOLD YOU SO, but.....HAMP just cancelled 80% of all the applications in their pipeline. Loan Modifications are not working.  A majority of the borrowers were either under qualified for the program or were just trying to u...
05/25/2010
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