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Impatiens
2008-06-05 19:24:00 I was driving down Harmon Street in Birmingham today and I was compelled to jump out of the car to take pictures of a couple of homes with beautiful flowers in front of them. After our especially long winter, the bright colors seem even brighter this year. Thank you to this Harmon Street homeowner ...
Home Stager Experiences Drop in Property Values Firsthand
2008-06-01 07:06:00 When the Feds dropped the prime a couple of months ago, my husband and I decided to refinance our home in Rochester Hills. Our 5-year ARM was maturing in September. We never planned to refinance this home. In fact, I believe the phrase “if we’re still living here in 5 years, I’m going to shoot myself” ... More About: Property , Home , Metro Detroit , Experiences , Values
Birmingham Farmer?s Market Season Kicks Off
2008-05-31 00:51:00 Look for me Sunday morning, perusing the wonderful offerings at the Birmingham Farmer ’s Market . The season kicks off at 9 am in the parking lot on Old Woodward at the end of Harmon, kitty corner from Booth Park. The organizers have done a GREAT job with the farmer’s market since it started, and I know they ... More About: Season , Kicks
Good Things Come to Those Who Don?t Wait
2008-05-27 16:19:00 In the last few weeks we got an offer on a new listing within 6 days of it hitting the market. Not bad, huh? For all the bad things you hear about the Southeast Michigan real estate market right now, there are lots of stories that are not sexy enough to make it in ... More About: Things , Good , Wait
$100 Well Spent: Inspect the Sewer
2008-05-27 16:17:00 For years now, we have been recommending that buyers have the sewer scoped during their home inspection period. For about $100, a guy named Dave and his colleague show up, head down the basement and stick a camera on the end of a long cable all the way down the sewer line until they ... More About: Inspect
Listing Agent More Valuable Than Ever!
2008-05-23 03:02:00 There has been a lot of buzz out there this year about how mortgage brokers created the current crisis in mortgage lending. Say it isn?t so! Well, it isn?t. Mortgage brokers can only work within the framework of guidelines set up by the investors (banks) who buy loans from them. The bank sets down rules for ... More About: Agent , Finance , Listing
Birmingham Bassett Hound Parade
2008-05-19 03:01:00 In typical Michigan fashion, we experienced hail, rain, wind and bright sunshine all within an hour span. The weather did not prohibit all who turned out for today’s parade from having a great time. I just realized I did not get any pictures of the Bassett Hound s! Next year… More About: Parade , Birmingham
$100 Well Spent: Inspect the Sewer!
2008-05-18 02:33:00 For years now, we have been recommending that buyers have the sewer scoped during their home inspection period. For about $100, a guy named Dave and his colleague show up, head down the basement and stick a camera on the end of a long cable all the way down the sewer line until they ... More About: Inspect
HGTV: ?The #1 Biggest Real Estate Mistake is Failing to Stage?
2008-05-12 17:02:00 HGTV recently aired a special program entitled “25 Biggest Real Estate Mistakes” which featured experts in all aspects of real estate: agents, mortgage lenders, home inspectors, flippers and stagers. The experts opined about the top reasons a listing lags on the market. Catch the full list here. Better yet, watch ... More About: Real Estate , Stage
It?s Sunday, I am a Mother and a Realtor, and I am NOT doing an Open House
2008-05-11 21:31:00 Happy Mother ’s Day to all of the Oakland County (and farther afield) mothers out there. Gloomy as our weather here may be, I hope it is a special day for all. We’ll now return to our regularly scheduled real estate discussions. There is a Mother’s Day tie-in since today is Sunday , open house day ... More About: House , Open , Metro Detroit
Metro Detroit Home Sales UP for the 4th Consecutive Month
2008-05-06 20:54:00 Yes, that headline is correct. Sales are up over last year for the fourth month in a row, according to our MLS, Realcomp II. We’ve told you, we are seeing a lot of activity, and we are busier than ever. Spring has sprung! Here is Realcomp’s report. Yesterday I tried to show 4 ... More About: Home , Metro Detroit , Metro , Detroit
11 Things About Buying A Short Sale Property In Michigan
2008-05-05 16:13:00 In today’s Metro Detroit real estate market, there is almost no way a prospective buyer cannot run into a few short sale properties or foreclosures during a home search. Each is much different from a standard “retail” home purchase where you are working with Susie and Sam Seller, their agent and your agent. In a ... More About: Buying , Property , Sale , Michigan , Things
East Side Real Estate Blog Launched
2008-05-02 14:46:00 Kris Wales, a great Real tor and blogger, has just launched Chat About Macomb. Take a look. Kris is a great writer with lots of insight about living in Macomb County. More About: Estate , Real Estate , Blog , East
Observations: Oakland County Housing Market Spring 2008
2008-05-01 10:19:00 Dmitry and I have had our busiest Spring in real estate in years in 2008. We are working with more clients than ever before. Last week we had a couple of closings and we asked the other Realtors and mortgage brokers if they were seeing what we are seeing: a lot more buying activity in ... More About: Market , Oakland , Metro Detroit , Housing
Birmingham Bloomfield Realtor Network News
2008-04-26 19:01:00 On Tuesday April 29th, the Birmingham Bloomfield Realtor Network is having it’s Spring Flowers tour from 10 to 1. Visit LastTuesdayTour.com for more information. We are also excited to be sponsors of the 2008 Birmingham Farmer’s Market. The market is a favorite with all of us. Our members will even be there to greet you 5 ... More About: News
?Chatting? with me (through that thing to the right of this post)
2008-04-26 01:49:00 I really like my little Plugoo thingy that sits in the center column of my site. But sometimes I forget to turn it off when I walk away from the computer. You might send me a message and I might not see it until I come back later. Other times I forget to turn ... More About: Blogging , Post , Thing , Chatting
Get Buyers Inside by Staging the Outside
2008-04-22 02:32:00 After an excruciatingly long winter, I hereby declare? gratefully and optimistically? that spring is finally here! The birds are chirping, the trees are budding and the baseball season has begun. In the real estate world, this means the time has come to kick curb appeal up a notch. In a buyer?s mind, the home?s exterior reflects the ... More About: Inside , Buyers , Staging
March 2008 Oakland County Property Statistics
2008-04-18 21:58:00 This just in from MCAR, our board of Realtors. Sales figures for March cooled off a little from the previous two months. In February, for example, sales in Oakland County were up seven percent year-to-year. For March, sales dipped four percent. One likely culprit: the fourth snowiest March since 1880. And home buyers that may have ... More About: Property , Metro Detroit , Statistics
Polar Bears Swimming
2008-04-16 20:22:00 .flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } polar bear, originally uploaded by Maureen Francis. Been to the Detroit Zoo lately? No school today, so we took a rare family trip to the zoo to enjoy the first days of spring. The ... More About: Swimming , Metro Detroit , Bears , Polar , Polar bears
Property Tax Relief For Those With Two Homes
2008-04-10 00:44:00 I am clipping an interesting portion of an email just received from the Michigan Association of Realtors, witha bit of good news for those home sellers who are carrying two homes in Michigan. Yesterday, Governor Granholm signed 3 significant pieces of REALTORŪ supported legislation. First, legislation enabling home sellers to retain 2 principal resident exemptions for ... More About: Property , Homes , Relief
Phenomenal Quarton Lake (Birmingham) Value Alert
2008-04-06 17:11:00 Today Dmitry and I will be holding open 490 Lake side in Birmingham … together. We don’t usually do open houses together, but last Sunday Dmitry had 45 guests through, and we expect more today, so we want to both be there to field questions. The house is directly on Quarton Lake! Check out ... More About: Alert
Transfer Tax Exemption Could Offer Some Relief to Michigan Home Sellers
2008-04-04 04:28:00 The following is a reprint of an email we received tonight from the Michigan Association of Realtors. It’s actually the first I have heard of this exemption, and it is exciting. I am going to have to do a bit more digging to see what this actually looks like when it is applied. Attorney ... More About: Home , Transfer , Relief , Sellers
Transfer Tax Exemption Could Offer Some Relief to Michigan Home Sellers
2008-04-04 04:28:00 The following is a reprint of an email we received tonight from the Michigan Association of Realtors. It’s actually the first I have heard of this exemption, and it is exciting. I am going to have to do a bit more digging to see what this actually looks like when it is applied. Attorney General Mike ... More About: Taxes , Home , Transfer , Relief
4 Things Luxury Home Buyers MUST Know in Today?s Market
2008-04-01 15:56:00 There has been a lot of bad press over the past year about real estate values declining, home loans being hard to get and foreclosure troubles with homeowners and lenders. I have to admit it?s a very challenging time in the mortgage lending business. In times of trouble there are also opportunities that present themselves ... More About: Finance , Luxury , Market , Home Buyers , Home
WP Upgrade ate my blog
2008-03-31 15:27:00 Things look funny here today. I will work later on getting the blog back to the way you are used to seeing it. I upgraded to wordpress 2.5 last night and it did not like something in my theme’s header. I threw this theme up in the meantime. Back later! More About: Blog , Metro Detroit
So, You Want to Buy an Oakland County Foreclosure
2008-03-31 14:18:00 Dmitry and I happen to represent a couple of banks on their higher end Oakland County foreclosures. Most of the sellers we work with are your garden variety homeowner, and working with the banks is a completely different animal. For the banks, we do a lot in the way of reporting and maintenance. ... More About: Metro Detroit , Foreclosure , Oakland County
Count the Lockboxes in this Birmingham Condo Complex
2008-03-29 23:24:00 36 Condo s in the building. 12 lockboxes at the door. It was a bit of a jarring sight to behold when we entered the foyer on Friday morning. The good news is that even though there are 12 lockboxes, only 5 of the units are on the market. The ... More About: Complex , Count , Birmingham
Taxes. Taxes. Taxes.
2008-03-28 05:17:00 Source: ShutterstockWell, it’s really Millages. Millages. Millages. I’m interrupting our series on Oakland County luxury homes today to bring you a post about property taxes. I was perusing a report on 2007 Oakland County Millage Rates and decided to see where we would find the highest property tax rates. The winners: Lathrup Village, where the homestead millage ... More About: Finance , Taxes , Metro Detroit
Taxes. Taxes. Taxes.
2008-03-28 05:17:00 Source: ShutterstockWell, it’s really Millages. Millages. Millages. I’m interrupting our series on Oakland County luxury homes today to bring you a post about property taxes. I was perusing a report on 2007 Oakland County Millage Rates and decided to see where we would find the highest property tax rates. The winners: Lathrup Village, where the homestead millage ... More About: Finance , Taxes , Metro Detroit
Orchard Lake?s Most Expensive Home
More articles from this author:2008-03-27 12:41:00 We are continuing our series on Oakland County’s most expensive homes on the market today by stopping off in Orchard Lake . We started Sunday in the City of Bloomfield Hills on Vaughan Road. Tuesday found us in Bloomfield Township?s gated community, Turtle Lake, at a home on Turtle Ridge. Wednesday we were ... More About: Home , Metro Detroit , Most Expensive 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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