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RECENT BLOG POSTS
As an Exclusive Buyer's Agent office we show a lot of property. And, we get opinionated. And, this month I seem to be running into a lot of listing agents who are happy to tell me over the phone what a wonderful large or deep lot their listing has, but then they are too lazy to provide: 1. A copy...
07/09/2009
I've posted before about the concern with poison drywall from China. It is a big problem in Florida and a number of other states. The Consumer Product Safety Commission now has a website devoted to the topic here: Drywall Information Center And it looks like there have not been problems reported ...
06/03/2009
 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN January 19 -- An Ann Arbor real estate Buyer's Agency released data on their 2008 purchases today. The Home Buyer's Agent of Ann Arbor reported that their average savings figures are up 39% to $22,777 per purchase compared to 2007 levels. Unlike traditional real estate compan...
06/03/2009
  It sounds like some incoming physicians doing their residency here have been receiving bad information about available mortgage options The mortgage market has changed dramatically over the last two years. There are now only about a half dozen zero downpayment mortgage options now where two yea...
04/16/2009
I heard an interesting story yesterday from a home inspector that works in the Washtenaw County area. It was about one of those enlightening moments in his career and it happened ten or twelve years ago. He was at an inspection and he was talking to the home buyer about radon and how it was a sus...
04/14/2009
One of the business consultants I get news from has shared this with me. I find it interesting and inspirational. So, I'm going to share it with you! Here is a link to a Today Show video about this unusual entrepreneur. I hope you enjoy it and share it:   TODAY SHOW VIDEO ON AUGIE'S STORY   We se...
04/04/2009
The national association most of the top buyer agents belong to (naeba.org) just posted this press release:   AVONDALE, Ariz., March 31, 2009 /PRNewswire-USNewswire via COMTEX/ -- As fewer transactions are split up between a relatively fixed number of real estate agents, those agents are using wh...
03/31/2009
We sometimes talk about homes that have suffered from abuse from their owners.A friend of mine ran across this example in a home he bought recently.The furnace had been run for years without a filter.Here is what he saw when he opened it up and looked at the air conditioning coils:   Homes that h...
03/30/2009
In the business of helping home buyers I am often working on Sunday afternoon. When I don't have appointments though, I like to take a Sunday afternoon nap in front of the woodburning fireplace.Yesterday my life took me in a different direction. You see we live in a ~40 year old home that has a d...
03/30/2009
  I was visiting a friends home this weekend and he showed me what the dish service people did for his mounting. He lives in a area where roof mounting isn't practical, and wall mounting won't work because of the type of construction of his home. So the alternative was a ground mount. The dish co...
03/16/2009
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