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We've Signed a Contract With a Michigan Solar Panel Installer

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This is from a press release last month: Select Solar And Generator, a Michigan solar panel installer, has signed a contract to design, install, and commission a solar roof for Jon Boyd, a local home buyer's broker and nationally recognized home buying expert. The installation will have the abi...

01/25/2011

When it comes to closing fees do you have a "Guttless" buyer's agent?

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A lot of real estate agents in our markets these days say they are buyer's agents. (Most are actually designated buyer agents but that is a different issue.) However in our experience few agents will actually help a buyer negotiate anything other than the purchase contract on the house. Here is a...

08/07/2010

A Delightful Meeting with a Window Replacement Contractor

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It is funny what you learn and when you learn it in the real estate business. As an exclusive buyer agent I've been been in thousands of homes with new or updated windows. In fact window discussions are very common for us because it does have a significant impact on the quality of living in a h...

06/16/2010

Hey Professionals! How About Intelligent File Names For Scanned Documents?

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Hey Real Estate Professionals - How about we all start to use some intelligent, useful, time-saving file names for all the scanned documents we are passing back and forth these days? Here is the problem: Every day I receive documents from lenders, title companies and other agents/brokers that are...

02/26/2010

Another Ann Arbor Real Estate Buyer Gets "The Big Lie" From a Local Agent

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I received another call yesterday from a frustrated home buyer. This young man had been working with a real estate agent from one of the big five firms here and he really felt he wasn't getting his questions answered. He wasn't even sure he knew what questions he should be asking. He did make sur...

02/26/2010

Rant - They call themselves "buyer agents" but they are still missing the point!

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I just read an interesting post here on Active Rain on the private "Member Only" side. It was about a real estate agent bringing in an offer from a buyer and trying to get the listing agent to respond in a professional way. This is certainly a common problem in many markets, fortunately here in A...

09/15/2009

The Ann Arbor MLS System Is Going Crazy Today!

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It is funny how much we depend on technology in the Ann Arbor real estate business these days.About an hour ago I started having problems with our MLXchange system. (That is the database of property used by the Ann Arbor Area Board of REALTORS.)Today the MLXchange system was crashing a lot when...

08/13/2009

Exaggerated Listing Descriptions - Ann Arbor Real Estate Buying Expert Interview Published At CNBC, Bankrate

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Being an expert involved with the National Association of Exclusive Buyer Agents (naeba.org) has given me some interesting national exposure. A month or so ago I spoke Jay MacDonald of Bankrate.com about the exagerations we see in the listing information. As the Ann Arbor company who represents ...

08/08/2009

Rant Warning: Another Annoying Listing Agent Behavior

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As an Exclusive Buyer's Agent office we show a lot of property. And, we get opinionated. And, this month I seem to be running into a lot of listing agents who are happy to tell me over the phone what a wonderful large or deep lot their listing has, but then they are too lazy to provide: 1. A copy...

07/09/2009

Michigan May Have Missed The Poison Chinese Drywall Issue

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I've posted before about the concern with poison drywall from China. It is a big problem in Florida and a number of other states. The Consumer Product Safety Commission now has a website devoted to the topic here: Drywall Information Center And it looks like there have not been problems reported ...

06/03/2009

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