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2010 

4 KEYS TO A STRONGER PURCHASE OFFER - By Tara-Nicholle Nelson, October 7, 2010  Q: When you finally settle on the house you want to buy and you find there are multiple offers, how should you negotiate to make your offer the better one? A: To those who are not currently active in the market, your...
10/31/2010
Is it Safe to Buy a California Foreclosure? Question:  I bought my home from a major Bank that does business in America, do I have to worry that they did not own it legally and it can be taken from me?  Answer:   No.  Especially if the property is in California.  Over the past few weeks I have ha...
10/29/2010
  49 homes at Irvine 92603 are now scheduled for Trustee Sale Auctions After Foreclosure.   Here are some of the Irvine, California, most expensive homes now scheduled for trustee sale auctions at some time during the next four weeks.   Address:  65 GrandviewTract:  Turtle RidgeAuction Date:  11...
10/28/2010
  UCLA Anderson School of Business Forecast predicts that the Orange County housing markets will have home sold price up by 2012, and home sales volume will rebound by 43% over the next two years. We don't know what algorithms they used for this but hope they're right about predictions for the Or...
10/27/2010
  It's PROPERTY TAX PAYMENT TIME. California property tax bills for 2010-2011 have been mailed by each county to home and property owners.  1st installment payment is due on November 1st.  That payment would eventually become delinquent on December 10th. 2nd Installment payment is due on Februar...
10/25/2010
   28 homes at the luxury community of Newport Coast are now scheduled for Trustee Sale Auctions After Foreclosure.  Here are five of those homes now scheduled for auction.   10 Via CoralleTract: PerazulAuction Date: 10-28-2010Time: 10:00 AMLocation: 401 E. Chapman, Placentia, CATrustee: First Am...
10/21/2010
VOTE  -  ELECTION DAY ON TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 2010 Most people are concerned about issues of JOBS, private industry and EMPLOYMENT.  If you aren't registered to vote, time is NOW for that in most areas for this election.  For Orange County, California, residents, see www.ocvote.com or call 714-5...
10/18/2010
  Helping people through customer service is what we do.   Selling real estate is a planned result.  Part of our customer service is being involved with folks who want to avoid foreclosure by loan modifications or short sales.   Please let's stop the worries about lender "robo-signers" on foreclo...
10/16/2010
  Leslie Appleton-Young, chief economist for the California Association of REALTORs®, has said that California home prices will rise by 13.5% by 2012, and sales will drop 10% this year 2010 and rise 2% in 2011.    What about current economy momentum in California? Impact of federal stimulus and h...
10/16/2010
Mortgage home loan interest rates dropped to lowest again yesterday and for the 12th time this year.  Rates on 30-year fixed mortgage has gone down by full percentage point since April this year (according to Freddie Mac).  30-year fixed-rate mortgage is now at 4.19% with 0.8 of a point (0.8% of ...
10/15/2010
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