South Jersey Real Estate Tips

Hello Real Estate Cognocenti, Following is a great post from a fellow Active Rain colleague. It was funny and reminded me of my bad timeshare sales pitch experience, oh some 20 years ago.  People, beware the timeshare! I had a client who last year couldn't buy the home that he wanted because of h...

I recently came across a post on another real estate site wherein the buyer had concerns about his final walk-through. Here's the blow-by-blow: Buyer was scheduled to close on his home on Monday.  His final walk-through was scheduled for  the previous Thursday.  He would get keys on Tuesday, acco...

Voorhees, NJ is a great place to live. Lovely homes, both modest and very high-end, but all quite nice; tree-lined streets and excellent schools. There's phenomenal shopping, and cool places to stroll and dine and be entertained, like the Voorhees MainStreet development. And, (drumroll here....) ...

I came across a customer question this morning.  A potential buyer had some confusion about the terms assessed value and appraised value.  He asked if the home that he bid 119k on but was "appraised at 53k" would be OK to purchase and would the bank loan him the 119k.  This happens a lot with buy...

Look!  It's time to get out there, especially if you're a first-time buyer! See the proof below that the much-talked about $8000 tax credit is real and it can work for you to get you into your first home. More good news about the tax credit:  It was just announced on Friday, May 28th that the fi...

In answering a blog post about Loan Modification scams and the failure of government plans to help homeowners by Lenn in Maryland today, I started thinking about the whole situation that we Americans find ourselves in today.  Here's what I wrote:  ...It seems quite un-American what has been perpe...

Ok so it's my first full day on AR, and I do mean FULL DAY, and I am hooked.  This harkens back to those first days in real estate where my husband, Ray, became an RE widower. Now he's feelin' the pain again.  I think he sees the writing on the wall.  Yup.  He's gonna be an AR widower!  But I acc...

Ok, so here I sit trying to write my first blog. I'm wrestling with where and how to begin. I used to write as a freelancer and as a stringer reporter for a local newspaper, but that was years ago. How do I write a blog??? Do I talk about myself or my business, or throw out a bunch of stats about...