Derrick Guevremont's (derrickg) Blog

Recently I showed some homes to a couple of new buyer clients of mine here in Rochester, Minnesota.  Rochester's real esate market is the largest single city's market witin the southeast Minnesota real estate market.  Other cities in this market include Austin, Albert Lea, and smaller Rochester ...

  Recently I showed some homes to a couple of new buyer clients of mine here in the Rochester, MN real estate market.  I had not looked in the price category they were in for a couple of months but I thought there would be more homes to look at since spring had now sprung.  It didn't take very lo...

Hello everyone.  I hope you had a great Easter weekend.  Markets were closed for Good Friday and therefore interest rates remained the same for the past 3 days.  Just a side note, the New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq are not Federal or State institutions.   From a lender in Rochester last Thurs...

When applying for a mortgage, or refinancing for that matter, make sure you don't forget to check the Good Faith Estimate (GFE) document!  This is a document, standardized to be the same for all lenders, containing all of the costs associated with getting that loan.  Items covered in that documen...

How did your day go today?  Did you get together with family or friends and have a nice feast?  Did you say "Happy Thanksgiving" to a few people?  Well, it is the Holiday Season again and I would like to remind everyone that while many of us are here struggling to sell real estate there are peopl...

This is a wonderful idea and one that can easily say so much about our appreciation for these people who serve us so well.  Maybe a couple minutes out of our day to do and it's done! Worthwhile holiday idea: If you still do Christmas cards (and if not, you can still buy one when out shopping), ta...

The home buyer tax credit has been extended until April 30th 2009, we are all aware of that.  Here is a post that I'd like everyone who's served in our military to know about:  The tax credit incentives have been extended an additional year for active members of the military who are serving overs...

Good information.  Regardless of whether or not the dog does physical harm it must be taken care of to make a listing less intimidating.  I know I had a listing a few years ago that had a renter who owned a Pit Bull.  When that dog was home and the renter was at work it was impossible to show the...

Good information.  Regardless of whether or not the dog does physical harm it must be taken care of to make a listing less intimidating.  I know I had a listing a few years ago that had a renter who owned a Pit Bull.  When that dog was home and the renter was at work it was impossible to show the...

There are few things that can frustrate an agent more quickly than a short-sale transaction. Many of these dealings have been taking 3+ months to close; if they close at all. The agents involved seem to have minimal control over how quickly the lender processes the short-sale request, accepts an ...