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Brown Real Estate in Snohomish county does almost exclusively REOs but not sure about NTS's.
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I disagree with Sniglet though his idea sounds good in theory. In practice, REO properties tend to be in poor condition so you will typically see them discounted because of that. Also, there is the issue of having to deal with a slower-than-normal…
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What I find odd is that it sounds like the family is having allergies since they moved into this house. And that there are at least two members of the family suffering from them. The first thing that comes to my mind is mold. Have they investigate…
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Land is valuable when developers want land. It's usually not valuable when they don't. Again, basic supply and demand at work. Right now, the developers have acquired too much land and there are not enough buyers to buy it after they develop it. …
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Checked in with Marlow and she doesn't think she, or any of us who contribute there, has/have the ability to ban IP addresses. If the IP address of Microsoft is being banned, it's probably either a glitch (that seems most likely to me) or something…
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It's too bad because I had really hoped for that blog to be a good resource. I think it still could be but I don't know what to do about the general tone of the discussions over there.
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Oh, and for the record, the anonymity issue is just stupid. I don't care who you are or where you're from, I can judge the validity of your opinions and the depth of your thought process based on your writing. I don't need to see a resume.
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Good grief. You leave town for a couple of weeks and look what happens. Is it all the comment areas or just SREP? It may not be a policy from the SREP people, because if it is they didn't discuss it with me and I would not support it. If it's …
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I do know ig-pay atin-lay, but I am reasonably certain that would not get me off the hook with regard to the COE. Urgh! Glad you like the mid-century stuff Deejayoh. I'm behind on updates, I'm off to Japan in the morning, but I'll get some new …
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I want to comment about this SO BADLY but the Realtor Code of Ethics says I can't. Dammit.
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This one is too easy. July was the peak and at the end of July American Home Mortgage imploded. They were the first Alt-A to go and after them, the deluge. Once Alt-A and Jumbos hit the fan, our market was in trouble. Not to say we knew it at t…
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That sounds about right. That's what we're seeing up in the north end anyway. (That's one of the things that median prices don't tell you--even if prices are holding steady, a more important question is what is that pricing getting you? It's ge…
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Oh come on. It's no fun if you don't play along!
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Good practice would be to throw out the outliers at the top and the bottom of the list if they are clearly not indicative of "market value." Not sure why you'd throw out the low one and not the high one--that's just a bad practice. This is assumin…
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rcc--this is one of those areas where you will find realtors don't speak with one voice. I know I don't care if you're anonymous or not. I think that is an individual quirk of Mack's. I've been involved in blogging for some time and what I've lea…
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True and a good point. Part of the reason we wouldn't bring it up in the case of a married couple is that there is at least a declaration of commitment there. It may not mean much these days, but the commitment was made even if it may not be hon…
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I can't have that conversation with them, but JLD can.
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Ah, here's the rub. The MLS would almost certainly consider a $20K price increase to be a significant change. A $1K price change would not be, but $20K probably would be. This is the problem with using words like "significant" rather than being…
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No down is likely to be a problem at the moment unless they go FHA. They would probably at least need enough to cover closing costs plus 3%. Not sure they can get that rate with FHA. Otherwise his price range works for FHA, and seems in keeping…
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Well, any agent can tell by looking at the property history whether it was canceled or expired. But the general public can't tell this as easily as you don't have access to the history. Most of the time we don't call in the rules violations on t…
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The challenge we face is that if we want the blog to be a place where people can openly discuss and debate different points of view, we can't really create an environment like that by "purging" our ranks. Mack and Larry may be pretty shrill at time…
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The Tim--I am in the business of real estate--you know me from the SREP blog. Remember how I said I'd never come over here? Never say never, I guess. The situation TJ described sounds like a violation of MLS rules to me. He can call the MLS di…
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You can call the MLS directly at 425-820-9200. I am not sure who you would talk to but just tell the receptionist and she can probably direct you to the right person.