Keith Carberry's (carberry) Blog

This happened a few weeks ago.  I just wakled in the door from showing some houses (showing, not selling as I am in a bit of a rut), when my wife informed me that we were out of milk. UGH! After changing into my blue jeans, I headed out to the grocery store. Picked up a gallon of milk and placed ...

When I saw "Free High Quality Reports", my first thought was "Yeah, sure. Free AND High Quality!" But I joined. Why not - it's free.I joined with healthy skepticism. Like most of us, I am usually pretty critical of the free content you find out there. However, I soon found my skepticism melting a...

How to get rid of ugly mortgages and get out of being upside down faster. Wholesale inflation rates soar. Keith provides some helpful insight as to how this is going to effect interest rates. He also discusses other factors causing 30 year term rates to rise (those darn banks). Buyers are stiull ...

The Real Estate Wind Is it still a Buyers market? When is it going to be a Sellers market again? Are home prices going up or down? I am asked these questions and similar ones everyday! My response to this question is with another question: Are YOU a real estate "flipper"? 9 times of 10 the answer...

Auctions That work....Online real estate auctions can be a great way to sell your home. Also, if you happen to be a real estate agent, and not an auctioneer, you can still help your seller sell there home on a date certain. And get paid!Given the fact that 80% of home buyers search the internet b...

I am not used to this Social Networking thing but I thought I would come here to see if there is anyone who handles real estate business in the Toledo Oregon area. As I mentioned in an earlier blog, we are currently doing a national website and we are picking up a buyer and seller That would like...

Although I have been using "Market Snapshot" for several months, it never did much for me until NOW! We just added it to our www.ReNewsYouCanUse.com website and immediately we are getting refferrals! Yup! Market snapshot is a local program but we figured why not test it out to see if we can get i...

New Fannie, Freddie mortgage fees! Reverse mortgage fees!! Countrywide and ACORN together!!! Option ARM borrowers left out! Acorn drives me crazy. Really they are like a pit bull on an ankle. They over do it! They are working hard to put Countrywide out of business. Mortgage fees going up? YUP! W...

The Market is soooo bad Ruben and I didn't even change our close from the last episode! "pay off your mortgage in half the time. Is real estate a global market? MSNBC.com "Michigan number 1 and Ohio #2. I can't believe what I do with my finger. Odd. Educational. Humorous. We offer our interpretat...

BankRate.com article on: Mortgage foreclosure bailout plan may help few Realty Times article on: New IRS Website Section Provides Information for Those Facing Foreclosure CNN Money article on: A low, low interest rate of 396 percent InMan News article on: Senate's FHA modernization bill stingier...