Kathleen Woolrich's (kathleenwoolrich) Blog

I have closed several short sales as a buyers agent and I keep hearing one buyer after another telling me that their former agents told them under no uncertain terms to ever look at short sales. I know short sales are difficult but if they have been negotiated already, they are often amazing deal...

 I was watching a video with Donald Trump talking about the intelligence of buying bank owned properties... Donald Trump is right on.   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MdMt_0e5Qs   I was amazed at what he had to say about agressively investing now. I made a bid last week and by the time I got the...

I am sure that by now you have seen SUSAN BOYLE who sang on Britain's Got Talent. She was not much to look at and kind of low key but when she opened her mouth and started to sing, Simon Cowell's mouth dropped. I am kind of like that as a realtor. I am an excellent realtor but I am not the pretti...

I don't know about the rest of you,but I have been a full time realtor for 14 years and it really has come to my attention that I thank God that when times were awesome , I did not get into debt over my head. I always pay my mortgage ahead when I get big closings and I live within my means. I hav...

Buying a house is alot more than signing a contract.   It is risk reduction for everyone involved. I cannot imagine how anyone could buy without a warranty and a home inspection. But buying without a termite inspection? Have people lost their minds? Just because the bank does not require one, for...

I have been a realtor in the Orlando area since 1995 and have literally sold all over central Florida from Polk County to Seminole to Lake and then up to Volusia and of course Osceola and my home county of Orange. I have sold about 40 million dollars of real estate, one 90 thousand dollar transac...

I hear all this bunk about technology. You can be a technological whiz and not know a thing about people. Realtors need to hold hands, calm down people and be a real friend in sometimes the hardest of times to their customers. Technology is important but people skills are much more important. I h...

I have been a real estate agent for 14 years. I used to sell primarily owner occupied houses and work with sellers transferring,etc. Lately ,all my business has been foreclosures and short sale offers. Its a new world and as a very experienced agent with alot of my fellow agents gone or out of bu...

I am besides myself with realtors who do not care enough about other agents to promptly remove the active label from their listings causing those of us working as buyers agent to have to call one by one ( each agent) therefore eliminating the showing button's usefulness. What gives people? Please...

I have been seeing a ton of cut rate condos out there for 20 25 30 thousand that are cash only now because financing is not offered because of the condo associations that are in arrears. What the heck is going to happen to people buying in there in terms of condo fees and are they going to skyroc...