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2013
Backup Offers: How to use this strategy successfully in the current market. With record-low inventory levels and an unusually high pool of buyers, properties are flying out the door, well over asking, and in some cases are sold before processing. This places a whole new value and weighted levera...
03/31/2013
Want to do well on ActiveRain? Take your "shy" and throw it out the window!! I just wanted to reach out to some of our new members, and even existing members for that matter. It seems I hear this question quite often: "How do I get ActiveRain to work for me?" My answer to that is: You Don't. T...
03/11/2013
Don't tell me anything about shadow inventory: Who new about shadow buyers? For years, we've been hearing about "shadow inventory", or this mysterious stockpile of bank-owned properties that at some point would be released into the market like some biblical plague. I'm not buying it. (No pun in...
03/07/2013
Another $uccessful closed deal via ActiveRain referral! I just closed another deal via ActiveRain Referral. A great agent from the Silicon Valley contacted me last year for a client that was looking for investment property here in the Los Angeles area. Well, it took us quite a while to find just...
03/06/2013
Have any AR Peeps processed a short sale with a relocation company? I am very familiar with real estate transactions involving relocation companys. I actually work with several and I'm closing one presently in the next couple of days. However, I am currently initiating a short sale with a reloca...
03/06/2013
Finally! Our MLS makes an effort towards upholding the rules........ I logged on to my MLS yesterday, only to find the following bulletin screen pop up: I can't begin to tell you how satisfied I was to see this. Especially since some agents still do not get the fact that with a short sale the ...
03/06/2013