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Scambusters, ( http://scambusters.org ), is a great resource and in this month's newsletter they relayed a story from the San Francisco Chronicle on how an identity theft victim actually chased down the crook that had been going through thousands of dollars of her credit cards. The downside is t...
05/14/2008

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Somewhere I know I posted a blog article about a home on Washtenaw in Ann Arbor that we almost helped a client buy. I say almost because when the buyer's home inspector looked at the home he found EIFS that had been incorrectly installed. He couldn't determine if it was a $5,000 problem or a $30,...
05/11/2008

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A couple weeks ago I was out with buyers evaluating homes and we came across an unusual home North of Ann Arbor. I posted about it here: Funny Home Well just South of Ann Arbor is this unusual home: This is actually the front view. This is the back view. The white home is across the street. It ce...
05/11/2008

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  I was helping a home buyer evaluate a home this week and I noticed that there was a basement wall that had been built with steel studs. This is not unusual and certainly many if not most commercial buildings are built with steel studs. What was notable was that the wiring in the wall was just d...
05/11/2008

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  I generally don't have a lof of enthusiasm about the holidays that seem to be so heavily promoted by the greating card companies. Bose's day, secretary's day, neighbor down the street day... But Mother's day is a bit different for me. I have a great mother who is still sharp and engaged. And I ...
05/11/2008

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 For the last six years of so Southeast Michigan Ash trees have suffered terribly from the Emerald Ash Borer bug.Some local neighborhoods have had their trees devistated.So ther question is... how many have survived?Our agent Laura Degiovanni has two in her yard that are alive. One that is very y...
05/08/2008

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 Certainly there are many real estate licensees who are leaving or have already left the business because of the market downturn.But, I was especially saddened to find out recently that our local Board of REALTORs had to lay off a long time administrative person.Nancy had been answering the phone...
05/08/2008

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 Monday night on May 12th from 7:00 to 8:30 we will have another of our home buying classes.The focus is on putting togehter a well planned, well researched home purchase.This class is a lot of nuts and bolts down and dirty information about the four stages of home buying. The class and materials...
05/08/2008

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The Detroit News published an article today discussing the possible rebound of the housing market in Detroit. The article is interesting but some of the numbers are actually amazing.For example; there were more foreclosure transactions in Detroit in April than there were non-foreclosure transact...
05/07/2008

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Sometimes we see newspaper writers who will go out of their way to paint a rosey picture of the marketplace, usually in papers that receive a significant amount of their income from Advertising.In this case the Free Press seemed to be relatively objective.Note especially the quote:"There is abso...
05/04/2008
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