by Michael Olear | Jun 25, 2010 | Buyers, Sellers
Q. SHOULD YOU HAVE A HOME INSPECTION BEFORE YOU BUY? An inspection of a home before you purchase it allows you to get to know your future home inside and out. You already know certain dominant features about the home that caused you to like it, but do you really know...
by Michael Olear | Jun 22, 2010 | National Trends
June 22, 2010 ? There is a proposed law in Congress that extends the deadline for closing a qualified transaction from June 30, 2010 to September 30, 2010. First time and repeat buyers needed to have a written contract of sale no later than April 30, 2010 in order to...
by Michael Olear | Jun 20, 2010 | Buyers, General, Sellers
Multiple Listing, or ML, is the phrase used to describe the cooperative arrangement among all realtors who belong to the same, local Board of Realtors.? This agreement allows realtors from all companies to share access to the properties that have been put up for sale...
by Michael Olear | Jun 17, 2010 | Buyers, General
A joint committee of the Board of Realtors and The Bar Association created the standard residential real estate contract that we use.? This was put together to allow buyers and sellers to sign off on their intentions with the comfort that comes from knowing that your...
by Michael Olear | Jun 10, 2010 | National Trends
We are blasted with so many bogus advertising pitches day in and day out, I think it often desenitizes us to what is really a good deal and what isn?t?..we don?t know what to believe. ?I thought I?d take a quick historical look at rates and try to put some facts out...