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Short Sell your Phoenix home

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If you’re underwater, you’re in a very crowded, very unhappy club. Possibly tens of thousands of Phoenix homeowners are underwater. Whether you bought too much house, or carefully avoided over-extending yourself; whether you borrowed equity for vacations or for home improvements… sometimes through no fault of your own, you’re underwater on your home mortgage. If [...]

9 August 2011 Read the full article →

Underwater in Scottsdale. Do you need a lawyer for a short sale?

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For a number of years, many homeowners in tony Scottsdale thought they would be insulated from the real estate crisis. For years, they were right. Not any longer. In general, Scottsdale median home prices are down about 43% from their peak in late 2006. Many Scottsdale homeowners are “underwater”, owing more on their home than [...]

4 August 2011 Read the full article →

Avoid foreclosure: tips to short sell your home

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If you live in metro Phoenix, chances are that your home might be “underwater” – you owe more on it than it’s worth in the current real estate market. Is this a problem? That depends. If you don’t want to move for many more years in the future, it might not be a problem to [...]

29 March 2011 Read the full article →

Top 3 tips to short sell your Phoenix home

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You can avoid foreclosure and instead do a short sale on your Phoenix area home. Short sales are not always easy, and not always short, but they can be done when you work with experienced professionals. Here are our top 3 tips for successfully requesting and completing a short sale with your mortgage lender. 1. [...]

1 March 2011 Read the full article →

Price cuts on nearly half of homes for sale

In The News

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Nearly half of homes on the market [took] a price reduction at least once in October, according to a monthly review of multiple listing service listings in 26 major markets conducted by national online brokerage ZipRealty. The ratio of price-reduction amount to list price was 7.5 percent… If you’re selling your home, read that again. [...]

18 November 2010 Read the full article →

Will my house ever sell?!?

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Sometimes selling your home in Metro Phoenix in 2010 can feel like a lot of hurry up and wait.  There are some things you can do to make the process quicker and less stressful.  This is reprinted from December 6, 2008. Gives you a little idea how long sellers have been struggling to sell their [...]

6 November 2010 Read the full article →

Wells Fargo allows 1 shortsale extension

Mortgages

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Wells Fargo is no longer granting more than one extension for homeowners to complete a short sale. “We do allow for one foreclosure postponement provided we have a short sale in hand that has been approved, the buyer has proof of funds of financing approved, and the short sale can close within 30 days of [...]

5 October 2010 Read the full article →

Staging Insider: how to de-clutter

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Reality TV shows on networks like HGTV and DIY Network tell the tale of the economy’s impact on housing: Flip & Sell, Flip That House, and Flipping Out have moved over to make room for Staged to Sell, Sell It Right, and Real Estate Intervention. On TV and in real life, one of the most [...]

19 September 2010 Read the full article →

Lease Purchase, Rent to Own

Buyer Help

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Rent to own and lease-purchase agreements are cropping up in the Greater Phoenix real estate world these days. They’re a natural result of the continuing tight credit market. Lease-purchase and rent to own are essentially the same things.  A lease with a purchase option is almost the same, just with more complicated legalese thrown in [...]

11 September 2010 Read the full article →

Photographing the front of your house

Listings

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Sometimes a head-on shot of the exterior front of a house isn’t the best way to showcase what the home has to offer. Sometimes you should take a picture from an angle you’d never normally use. That’s the same house and the two pictures were taken within about 60 seconds of each other. You’d hardly [...]

2 September 2010 Read the full article →

When to *not* re-do a kitchen

Lifestyle

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When the kitchen is vintage and the building is “mid-century modern”, and it’s a condo, there’s a good argument to be made for not re-doing the kitchen. This is kitschy and cute and “period”.  Long time readers may have deduced by now that I am a sucker for the mid-century modern look. And I even [...]

25 August 2010 Read the full article →

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