How To Make FHA Offers To Buy A House, More Enticing
A REALTOR’S VIEWPOINT – ON LENDING FOR TODAY’S MARKET As a real estate agent you need to know the products out there for the buyer. I mean loan products. Everyone and anyone could buy a home during the heyday! Now it’s more limited – houses for sale and there are really only a few…
Read moreReal Estate and Buying A Home – On A High Horse But A Good One!
LENDER’S VIEWPOINT by Broker, Forest Tardibuono “High Horse” – In a Good Way “Get off your high horse” is a request to someone to stop behaving in a haughty and self-righteous manner. But notice that a high horse is a common depiction in statues of leaders. These conjure images of a leader on his…
Read moreMake the Winning Offer
Make the Winning Offer Who doesn’t want to know how to beat out the other purchase contracts in today’s multiple offers and lower inventory markets, and buy that house! There was a really good article in the Wall Street Journal recently about Hard Money loans. It was informational to borrowers and investors alike. It spoke…
Read moreCREDIT – The Bane of Home Loan Approvals
CREDIT – The Bane of Home Loan Approvals This aspect of qualifying for a home loan boils down to good credit versus bad credit. The lenders left in the mortgage market arena, let’s call them institutional lenders, the ones that are offering the 30 year mortgages at historic low rates, require good credit (among…
Read moreHow Can I Get A Home Loan?
Out of the Ashes… LENDER’S VIEWPOINT by CA Broker, Forest Tardibuono Out of the Ashes… I have empirical evidence of the real estate market recovery. Statistics I monitor that have seen a dramatic turn recently. It has me more excited about the recovery than housing sales. My Past Borrowers are buying houses, and they…
Read moreThe Winning House Bid – You Get the Deal
The Winning Bid It looks like the various predictions that 2012 will be the best year in Real Estate since 2006, are coming true. The statistics bear this out for sure, but a more telling phenomena is the dreaded bidding war. That is a listing that receives multiple offers. These happen with frequency in…
Read moreProven Realtor Social Networking & Marketing Sites
Lenders Viewpoint By Forest & Lynn Tardibuono Proven Realtor Social Networking & Marketing Sites After our Daughter ‘n Law (who is our Marketing Director) attended the local Sonoma County Tech Expo with seminars from experienced representatives of Trulia, Zillow and C.A.R., we all decided a list of the staple social networking, marketing and advertising sites…
Read moreMake The Market Work For You Instead Of Desperately Working For It!
Getting the message out to Realtors and your clients about the current market good news, such as “You can sell your house for free with a short sale” and “equity sales are up 59%!” will only make you more money. Like Mike Kelly of Keller Williams Realty stated, “By creating a bigger pie we…
Read moreSure Advice for Real Estate Success
LENDER’S VIEWPOINT By; Broker Forest Tardibuono Sure Advice for Real Estate Success As Rick Laws mentions in his 2nd quarter real estate report, the Bay Area experienced over 30% increase in homes sold compared with last year. A 30% increase! The big question is: “How does a Buying Agent get their Buyers to write the…
Read more6 Ways Your Home Can Help You Retire
Once upon a time (i.e., 2006) in a magical place called the Bay Area, the real estate market got so heated that it became commonplace to hear coffee shop patrons trading stories about their little old million-dollar houses. It became equally commonplace for this excess of home equity to create a false sense of financial…
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