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First Time Home Buying Quiz with Insider Information

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A while back we set up a online Home Buying Quiz that was well received by other home buying professionals around the country. I wanted to share it here for any home buyers who might be interested in learning real "meat and potatoes" information that is difficult to find anywhere else. There are ...

10/21/2008

A local Ann Arbor "Buyer Agent Bribe"

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One of the ten under-reported challenges home buyers face these days is bribes the seller or listing agent offers to the agent/brokerage who brings in the buyer. You can download the whole report from the National Association of Exclusive Buyer Agents website here. If for some reason you can't ...

10/09/2008

Yahoo Search Engine Curiosities

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Today I was doing some search engine inquiries to see how our webpages faired in the big three search engines "GYM". (That is SEO guy speak for Google, Yahoo, and MSN. The three big players left in web searches.) I found that our Ann Arbor buyer agent web site came up in the first place on one o...

10/06/2008

The impact Fredie Mac and Fannie Mae issues will have on Home Buyers

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This video may be out-of-date in a few days with the way things are changing, but it is fairly up-to-date as of this moment. This morning I received a summary from mortgage genius Dawn Davis in Memphis which I used to put this together: Let me know if I've left anything out. Jon Boyd, Bro...

09/19/2008

IDRBNG and BATVAI or how not to write remarks in a listing

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I just came across a listing in our market by an out-of-area brokerage.Along with the three short sentences of the description were the abreviations IDRBNG and BATVAI.Now understand I've been buying homes for 25 years, and helping other people buy homes as a buyer's agent for about 20. And, I did...

09/18/2008

Explosive! Homes Built on a WWII Bombing Range

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My wife just just saw this online. A Florida development was built on a bombing range. Somehow the information on the land's history got removed from the titlework?? Explosive Real Estate: Florida Homes Built Atop WWII Bombing Range Doesn't it make you wonder how this could happen? Jon Boyd,...

09/18/2008

Inman News Post on Russian Buyers - Focused Against the Buyer!

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Inman News just republished an article originally from the Global Edge titled "Selling to Russian buyers: 10 tips for real estate agents" The writer, Ashley Rigg generaly provides useful information. But, point 5 includes "Emphasize any aspirational features of a property or area that you can. If...

09/15/2008

Boston Area Exclusive Buyer's Agent's blog makes it to Breitbart Front Page

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Another Exclusive Buyer Agent friend of mine from the Boston area just hit a home run with her blog post about her local market. Rona Fischman blogs for Boston.com and her post about the local Boston market made it to the front page of Breitbart this morning. In case you don't know, Breitbart i...

09/14/2008

Good Article On Buying a Vacant Home

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I saw my friend Merrill Ottwein, a top buyer's broker in Illinois, quoted in this recent article in the San Jose Mercury News.: Tips on buying a vacant home Like me, Merrill had the honor of being the President of the National Association of Exclusive Buyer Agents a few years ago. The guy is ...

09/14/2008

Home Buyer's Agent Helps Alpha-Geek Buy a Great Home

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We had the pleasure this year of helping a senior engineer from the automotive industry buy a nice four bedroom home.I've had the pleasure of knowing this particular engineer for twenty five years. In fact he was the first great boss I had after I graduated from engineering school myself in 1982....

09/12/2008

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