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As time goes by a lot of good information can get lost on the internet. This is a press release from NAEBA in August of 2004 that covers the intentional effort of many state REALTOR associations (Including ours here in Michigan) to confuse and mislead buyers about agency. It is clear enough and i...
03/06/2011

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Moving is ususally a challenging and time consuming effort. These two tips will probably help anyone moving a home or office save time, stress, and money.In our many years of helping home buyers we've found two things that most movers need to make a transition from one home to another. These thin...
01/25/2011

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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
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