If you’ve been searching for homes in the Seattle area for longer than about a week, you’ve probably had an experience like this: After searching your favorite listings website for homes between 1,500 and 2,000 square feet, you find a decent-looking 1,800 square foot home that looks like a good candidate in your price range….
Real Actual Listing Photos: Fun-House Edition
It’s time for another installment of Real Actual Listing Photos. Once a month (or so) I round up some of the most bizarre listing photos from around the Seattle area and post them here, with brief excerpts from the real actual listing description, and probably a bit of snarky commentary. The idea for this series…
Poll: Will you avoid buying a bank-owned home because of the foreclosure mess?
This poll was active 10.17.2010 through 10.23.2010.
Weekly Twitter Digest (Link Roundup) for 2010-10-16
Michael Hellickson's real estate license reinstated pending a court hearing later this month. http://bit.ly/cV2wka # LOL. RT @ARDELLd Only in TX: a bunch of agents call themselves geniuses & publicly whine about an 8% cap commissions. http://bit.ly/c7dIr9 # RT @KellyGilblom: #WaMu gets $4.8 billion of a $5.2 billion refund from the U.S. Treasury http://bit.ly/9CHVPG #…
Foreclosure Documentation Mess: What Does It Mean?
It would seem the $#!@ has really hit the fan lately with the sloppy documentation (or sometimes complete lack of documentation) banks have been keeping as they package, re-package, and transfer the ownership of various mortgages between each other. I’m not going to go into the details of the mess that has finally come to…