Tips for sellers of real estate to freshen their market reports to get their home sold. Absorption rate calculator and recent closed sale comparables.

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chrisgriffith on September 1st, 2009

The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon – Thurs 11p / 10c Home Crisis Investigation www.thedailyshow.com Daily Show Full Episodes Political Humor Healthcare Protests Geitner Claims The Housing Crisis is Over   If you don’t see the video above CLICK HERE

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chrisgriffith on August 26th, 2009

Maybe You Should Test The System There’s currently a fair sized pile of printed out property reports on my desk that have been marked up and highlighted from last weeks showings. Almost thirty percent of them have a big black slash across the page. The agents who were supposed to be marketing the properties were [...]

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chrisgriffith on August 19th, 2009

Buyers don’t have the attention span to wait out short sales in real estate.

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chrisgriffith on May 25th, 2009

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chrisgriffith on May 7th, 2009

Shouldn’t Real Estate Buyers Actually Buy? Never will your home seem to be instantly sold more so than the day you mention to your friends, neighbors or colleagues that you’re putting it on the market. Suddenly, it seems people come out of the woodwork that really, really secretly loved your home and have always wanted [...]

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chrisgriffith on April 9th, 2009

Things to Do at Riverside Park | Bonita Springs, Fl This Friday, April 10, enjoy Evenings in the Park Six Artists – Six Cottages – 5:00pm – 8:00pm A delightful evening with friends, meeting the artists while enjoying music, wine and refreshments. Sunday, April 12, 2009, 2:00pm (Happy Easter!) Free Concert – Bonita Springs Concert [...]

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chrisgriffith on March 9th, 2009

Bee Bravery at Riverside Park These flowers grow in the park right behind Engle’s Bike Shop on Old 41 Road, just before you get to the Artist’s Cottages.  Yes, they’re really that colorful.  This is an unretouched image.

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chrisgriffith on December 10th, 2008

If you don’t see the video above, click the link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ivp4YqGCI-s

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chrisgriffith on December 4th, 2008

The Financial Crisis: an Historical Perspective View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: contest mortgage)

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chrisgriffith on November 20th, 2008

Real Estate Has No Short Term Fixes Some people who decide to sell their Bonita Springs home find out the value that they had in mind isn’t really the reality of their current situation. Well, I guess a fair number of them find that out, not just some of them. There is a photo snapshot [...]

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chrisgriffith on October 21st, 2008

Are You Sure Buyers Actually Get In Your Home? Sometimes it really isn’t that difficult to figure out why a  home isn’t selling. I stumbled onto a big reason why some homes don’t sell this past weekend.  There wasn’t a whole bunch of hocus pocus involved or even a comparative market analysis.  All the home has to [...]

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chrisgriffith on September 25th, 2008

Here’s a big news alert that just came out that may effect your short sale real estate transaction. In an opinion letter issued today to the Florida Association of Realtors, the Department of Revenue ruled that “when the lender cancels indebtedness of the seller, that cancellation is not included in determining the amount of consideration [...]

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chrisgriffith on September 13th, 2008

You Can’t Hide From Foreclosure Most of my listings are posted on Trulia and I also subscribe to Trulia alerts.  I get email alerts for new listings, foreclosures and even the “Voices” that I participate in from time to time.  I mostly read those just to see what people are asking and what information real [...]

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chrisgriffith on August 20th, 2008

Come Any Closer & I’ll Jump! This is a thankless job.  There are times when it is fun to sell real estate and there are times when it would be more fun to have my fingers crushed in a door.  There are things that real estate agents do that is such hard work.  Well, some [...]

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