Tuesday, March 15, 2011

Are All Real Estate Sales Short Sales or Foreclosures?

If you are injured on top of a mountian and 3 helicopters land to pick you up, which one should you get in? Should you get in the Army Medivac Helicopter, Flight for Life or the News helicopter? The answer -- much like the foreclosure situation -- is not so obvious. On the mountaintop if you can still crawl, crawl to the Army Huey because you will be rescued for no cost and things work out fine. If all you can do is move your mouth, say Flight for Life, because they have the best trained medical people and best helicopters on the planet. For no reason whatsoever, should you get into the News helicopter because they won't have enough power to take off again with a passenger and you will probably die.

If you have a chance to buy a short sale property, just say no because at the last second the lender will change their mind and they won't go through with it. This is a fact that all Brokers know. A property that has been through foreclosure and is banked owned is only slightly better. The real values in today's market which account for 7/8ths of the closings, is a seller that wants to sell bad enough on a clean transaction and the deal gets done.

Monday, February 7, 2011

Too Much Of A Good Thing

Could we start with that it is actually possible for there to be too much snow? This season is doing great business for Summit County because of a spectacular snow year. We are really only like farmers because we rely on the weather to give us our crop.

The overabundance of easy to get financing is credited with the downfall of the real estate market. The overabundance of properties to sell is credited with keeping the market at the current level. A gut check of any serious real estate investor comes to the conclusion that now is the time to buy. We are passed the point of panic in the country. We are passed the point of exploding forecolsures. Interest rates are starting on their way up. Those people with the backbone to be pruchasers now are going to come out like bandits.

Ask for abundance, but be careful what you wish for.