The New Home Sales Center

April 24, 2010

Ever pull into a new, under construction community and waltz right into the Sales Center for some information? Of course you have. Everyone does this. It’s fun and the folks in the sales center are typically oh so helpful and chipper. “How are you today? It’s sooo nice to see you…can I offer you some [...]

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Exclusive Buyer Brokerage Agreement

April 24, 2010

Planning on using a Realtor to help you purchase a property? If so, at some point early in the process, your Realtor is going to ask you to sign a form called the Exclusive Buyer Brokerage Agreement. If he doesn’t, you’ve got a pretty clueless Realtor on your hands. What is an Exclusive Buyer Brokerage [...]

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Lease Purchase Options

April 22, 2010

Let me just come right out and state it at the top here: Lease Purchase Options are a complete rip off. To understand why, you need to view it from the eyes of the people that invented it, the Real Estate Investors. The Investor has an investment property to rent. He’s looking to make a [...]

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First Time Home Buyer Tax Credit

February 24, 2010

On November 6th, 2009, Congress signed into law The Worker, Homeownership and Business Assistance Act of 2009. This Act extends and expands the first-time home buyer credit allowed by previous Acts. The deadline was extended from November 30, 2009 to April 30, 2010 and the scope was expanded to include repeat buyers, not just first-time [...]

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2009 FMLS Statistics

February 21, 2010

Here are some interesting statistics compiled from the final 2009 FMLS data. The FMLS is the First Multiple Listing Service, or MLS, for the greater Atlanta Metro. Of special interest is the number of buyers that use the internet, 87%. Also, the number of weeks searched and homes seen, 10 each. Due to so much [...]

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