Tony's Big Bear REO Blog

  Three months ago, I took a listing on a clean 1 bedroom cabin in the east end of the Big Bear Valley.  The problem is that I took the listing at to high a price.   After previewing the cabin, I suggested a list price of $99,000.  At that time, there were very few, if any homes for sale priced u...

The search has ended and you found the perfect cabin in Big Bear.  The negotiations are over, the inspection is history, and the long and stressful escrow period has closed. Now comes the tough part, it's time to move. Even though you have spent many weekends in Big Bear, the thought of moving ca...

    There's little doubt that the real estate marketplace in Big Bear and all over California has changed from a Seller's to a Buyer's market. Sale volume has dropped off from where it was at the peak in 2005. The days of quick sales and multiple offers are few and far between. On top of the chan...

When the time comes to buy a property in Big Bear, do you shutter at the thought of dealing with Real Estate Agents?  Have you ever been in escrow on a property and wondered if your agent was really working with your best interests in mind?  More and more people are turning to the internet to sea...

With the change in market conditions my clients are asking me a lot of questions while we're out looking at property in Big Bear.  I've compiled a list of some of the most frequently asked questions and thought I would go over them in this blog. •1)      What is going to be required to write an ...

Winter has arrived and you're now driving to work on rain slick roads.  You look up snow caped mountains of Big Bear and you wish you up there snow boarding at Bear Mountain or sking at Snow Summit.  The traffic isn't moving and you're going to be late for work, so you call in sick and head to th...

  As I sit in the office this morning where it is warm and dry, I know that just outside the building we are experiencing blizzard conditions.  The much anticipated storm has arrived in Big Bear and the snow is falling faster than it can be cleared.  It goes without saying that with all of this ...

After spending time with your Realtor in Big Bear looking at property,  You find what you were looking for.  Your Realtor takes you to a perfect 3 bedroom, 2 bath cabin backing to the ski slopes in your price range.  You and the wife fall in love with it, so you make an offer. A few days after w...

When you priced your cabin in Big Bear for sale in 2004, you didn't have to be too concerned with the value that you placed on your cabin.  The market was a very strong sellers market and everything sold.  If you over priced your cabin, it would take a little while longer to sell, but you could b...

There isn't a day that goes by that I'm not on the phone talking to clients about Short Sales.  Today's buyers spend a lot of time on the internet looking at cabins for sale in the Big Bear area before they ever come up and look around.  Between the bank owned, REO properties and the Short Sales,...