The past two blog posts have been dedicated to thinking outside of the box and using creative real estate solutions for home sellers who are having a tough go at selling their homes in the Tallahassee real estate market. Yesterday, we posted two riddles and asked readers to respond with the corre
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07/30/2010
Yesterday I posted some riddles and asked if our readers could solve them (click here to visit yesterday’s real estate blog). I was pointing out the parallel between these tricky riddles and the daily problems that home sellers in our struggling real estate market face every day. Both require c
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07/29/2010
Good stuff. Just another example why real estate consumers should do some research before deciding with whom to work to buy or sell a home! Buyer's agents are the biggest roadblock to closing a short sale. Buyers, if you've been writing offer after offer on those short sales without success, perh
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07/27/2010
I received a great newsletter from a friend, David Rich, who included a few “thinking outside of the box” riddles that made me see a parallel between what we are doing now to help people sell their homes and solving these riddles. When the housing market is balanced (supply and demand are at equ
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07/27/2010
Home sellers are competing for an increasingly smaller pool of homebuyers, and our recent housing market reports are providing proof that the market is going to be tough going for home sellers for some time to come. In case you missed yesterday’s blog on the rapid growth of foreclosure sales, it
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07/27/2010
Jay writes a neat article about wiring... but it just reminds me how important trusting your home inspector is during your real estate transaction. They say to never say never, and never say always. Well, when I do inspections on old homes, I almost ALWAYS have a mish mash of wiring! And why no
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07/27/2010
The Tallahassee MLS shows that the relative home supply in the entire MLS dropped during the month of June. While the Tallahassee Real Estate Market Report mostly focuses on Leon County, Florida, we occasionally look at the overall and surrounding markets including our neighboring counties. By us
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07/26/2010
The daily closed home sales information graph has been updated. The Homebuyer Tax Credit has come and gone, and by the looks of it the Tallahassee real estate market benefited as planned by our leaders in Washington. The real question now is will the stimulus provided over the past year be a star
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07/26/2010
After conducting a preliminary study on foreclosures and lis pendens in Leon County last week, we knew that something exciting was happening and it needed to be analyzed with much more scrutiny. In case you missed the blog, it was titled Tallahassee Foreclosure Report Posts Positive News and it
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07/26/2010
A lot of homeowners who are upside down in their homes are wondering how to handle a short sale. They are plagued by rumors, incorrect assumptions, and hearsay that often times leads them away from making the best decisions. Long time reader “Sarah” read yesterday’s blog regarding Parents of FSU
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07/23/2010