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It's a Great Time to Sell......Low-ball Offers a Thing of the Past? Daily Real Estate News | Tuesday, April 24, 2012 Last year, 10 percent of REALTORS® complained about receiving low-ball offers on l...

Word of the Day for Sunday, April 22, 2012 obtuse \uhb-TOOS\, adjective: 1. Not quick or alert in perception, feeling, or intellect. 2. Not sharp, acute, or pointed; blunt in form. 3. (Of a leaf, petal, etc.) rounded at the extremity. 4. Indistinctly felt or perceived, as pain or sound.   "Excus...

Breaking News! Fannie & Freddie set requirements for responding to short sale offers at 30 days, if there are any unique issues, (there always are!) then 60 days. If a counter offer is involved the buyer has 5 days to respond, the lender has 10 days .   For full article:   http://www.dsnews.com/a...

Word of the Day for Thursday, April 12, 2012 macaronic \mak-uh-RON-ik\, adjective: 1. Composed of a mixture of languages. 2. Composed of or characterized by Latin words mixed with vernacular words or non-Latin words given Latin endings. 3. Mixed; jumbled. noun: 1. Macaronics, macaronic language. ...

On This Day: Tuesday April 10, 2012 This is the 101st day of the year, with 265 days remaining in 2012. Fact of the Day: golf balls Golf balls were originally made of wood, but in the early 17th century the feather ball was introduced. It was a slow and expensive process to manufacture these ball...

Currently the scoop is.... Active Notices of trustee sale for residential properties as of the end of March were 16,947 units. Down from last month of 17,331. Down slightly by a total of 384 properties. Down from the all time high of December 2009 of 47,606. Residential Foreclosures were at ther...

  Word of the Day for Monday, April 9, 2012   cumshaw \KUHM-shaw\, noun:   A present; gratuity; tip.   Many had nothing to give, but the younger wives always brought a modest cumshaw—a gift—for whatever mysterious service Dr. Ransome provided. -- J.G. Ballard, Empire of the Sun   No one in the fi...

  In the palm of your hand   A successful project might very well lead to having your customers, your vendors or your employees eating out of the palm of your hand--aware of your wishes and eager to to do what you ask.   Now what are you going to do?   This is always a temporary state. Abuse it a...

Alex Charfen from CDPE has announced this on his blog. Last month, Bank of America announced a pilot program that will provide some distressed property homeowners with a new foreclosure alternative. This new “Mortgage to Lease” program will allow homeowners facing foreclosure to remain in their h...