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Ask anyone who has applied for a mortgage recently about the process and I’m sure one of the first things that is mentioned is “Oh my gosh, the lender wanted everything you can think of!”   I always smile when I hear these comments coming from my buyer clients, because even though I’ve told them that [...]

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You don’t have to be a first time home buyer to be confused about how sellers concessions work.   Many 2nd and 3rd time home buyers ask the sellers for concessions (help in paying the buyers closing costs, pre-paid items, and/or tax prorations.) The confusion sets in for buyers when they make a strong offer on [...]

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A recent phone call that was placed to me from someone who had read many of my articles for first time home buyers leads to this one being written now.  The caller was confused because she had been led to believe that FHA had income limits, and that the loan limit was part of the [...]

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I’ve heard it so often that I cringe each time I hear it from a potential home buyer: “So-and-so told me to never offer more than 50% of the list price” or some version of that sentence. My response? If the homes list price is double what the market value is, then by all means [...]

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Normally when people think about buying a home they start out searching for homes on the Internet. They have their wish list and must have list in mind, they have a good idea about what city they want to reside in, and they have a bit of an inkling of how much their new home [...]

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I love the excitement that a home buyer has once they hear that their offer to purchase has been accepted by the seller.  One of the areas that we talk about before they write an offer on a home is what happens during that “in between” time.  As a buyers agent in Macomb County I [...]

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Last week I received an email from a past client who purchased a home in St. Clair Shores several years ago.  She wanted to know how sales were going in her area, and if we are seeing signs of market recovery yet. What I found was actually rather encouraging: A couple of homes similar to [...]

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A few days I wrote an article about the National Association of Realtors® taking a stance and adding to their Standards of Practice the verbage “don’t give out the lockbox code!”.   While reading and commenting it reminded me of something that is taking place with HUD owned homes:   The locks are re-keyed with the same [...]

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I dislike pressuring people, especially home buyers.  If you would ask my previous clients they’d be apt to say that I’ll talk them out of purchase rather than talk them in to one. That being said, if you are thinking about buying a home solely to take advantage of the first time home buyers tax [...]

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I wrote this article the other day and published it on my first time home buyers blog, and then decided to add it here.  (Something I don’t normally do – I don’t like to duplicate content as it appears to be spammy. ) This is so important though that I broke one of my own [...]

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