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Shadow Inventory.  It’s a murky term, as the word “shadow” usually means something dark following us around.    When we hear it in a way that relates to our local real estate market, for example Macomb County and the Metro Detroit area, it means homes that are sitting vacant on our blocks and in our subdivisions [...]

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Several months ago I read an article written by another real estate agent (in another part of the country) about an incident she had while showing homes to a  young buyer couple. The house was empty (the sellers left for the showing) and the buyers looked at the home thoroughly, even though they really [...]

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So often lately I receive a phone call from either a past client, or someone that knows a past client and refers them to me.
What is the first thing I do? I refer them to someone that I work with that knows what he is doing.  As I tell these callers:  Short sales are a [...]

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Is it really April already?   I think this winter dragged on so long that the first few days of April kind of sneaked up on me!
This morning I took a peek at the single family residential home sales that happened in the first quarter of this year in Macomb County and realized once again that [...]

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What a frustrating weekend!
I tried to make appointments for my buyer client to view 2 owner occupied Oakland County homes this weekend.  We were giving plenty of notice (a day and a half).    Both homes were set up for “online showing access” through our Multilist databases.   Should be easy enough right?
Wrong.
We couldn’t get a [...]

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I was out and about yesterday in St. Clair County showing homes to a wonderful couple.  One of the homes that we were really interested in viewing seemed to have most of their “wish list / want list” covered.
Imagine our disappointment and surprise when we pulled up to this:

This was an extremely long country driveway [...]

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Finally back on track (and with some free time!) to analyze a bit more today the homes sold in Macomb County during the past year. Once again the north west part of the county, Macomb Township, showed me in black and white what I had been seeing with my buyer clients:  Stability.
There were fewer homes [...]

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In Michigan as in other states when a home owner puts their home on the market in most instances they are required to fill out a sellers disclosure form.
This form really isn’t tricky or difficult to fill out. It has basic “yes and no” questions about whether certain items are in [...]

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Last week I received a call from a condo owner in Sterling Heights. She has had her condo on the market off and on a couple of times and would really like to sell it.  Pricing isn’t an issue, she is realistic about the over saturation of condos on the market and can price her [...]

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A while back I received an email from someone who wanted to know if there is a list of HUD approved condos that she could look over.  I directed her to HUDS site that is updated when condo sites are approved, searchable by state, city or zip code.
This morning I had some free time to [...]

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