chrisgriffith on March 14th, 2012

Renegotiate the Real Estate Contract – Concessions It doesn’t matter what side of the transaction you’re on sooner or later the question, “what can we ask for” is going to come up. It’s the nature of the game, human nature even; to question, to negotiate or renegotiate as a real estate transaction evolves from initial [...]

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chrisgriffith on January 5th, 2011

Selling Your Real Estate For Free Most consumers only buy and sell real estate as a necessity. Often times there are great periods of time between transactions so there isn’t exactly common familiarity with the procedures and protocols of how things work. Revise that, how things work down here. Odds are, the last transaction was [...]

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chrisgriffith on September 15th, 2010

Selling for sale by owner and inviting real estate agents to show and sell.

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chrisgriffith on August 11th, 2010

Propertly listing a short sale to appraise and close sale.

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chrisgriffith on January 25th, 2010

The Homeowner’s Parting “Remarks” If you do not see the video above Click Here. We’ve seen it all and we’re still seeing it, the trashed foreclosure.  Occasionally, the owners have just walked away and left the home intact.  Other times they take it out on the walls and strip the home bare.  Recently, I had [...]

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chrisgriffith on January 19th, 2010

The Internet: How to Sell Real Estate in 2010 If you’re currently selling or about to sell your real estate you need to know how buyers shop for real estate in Southwest Florida. There’s been an evolution towards buyer empowerment by way of the internet. It’s nothing new, of course, but if you or you’re [...]

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chrisgriffith on September 30th, 2009

$180,000 Less Than 2005 Appraisal! There have been a few ads spotted out there with the declaration of how much lower the home price is compared to an appraisal from back in the day. Advertising an old “appraised at” price is totally irrelevant to buyers. If a home was such a great deal and priced [...]

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chrisgriffith on September 23rd, 2009

It’s Still All About The Real Estate Appraising Recently there’s been a lot of hubbub about the effects of the new Housing Valuation Code of Conduct – HVCC. The HVCC was intended to create a system to eliminate inflated values by either bad or novice appraisers or by predatory lenders. The resulting unintended consequences have [...]

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chrisgriffith on July 10th, 2009

HVCC survey results

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chrisgriffith on July 1st, 2009

The home valuation code of conduct HVCC and what it means to those getting or making loans.

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chrisgriffith on June 22nd, 2009

Why HVCC just must loans and funding worse for consumers.

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chrisgriffith on May 11th, 2009

Are you too late to the home buying or refinancing game? Some people still think that things are going to get better.  So I decided to hold off one week on writing something, so this way I could write on what did happen.  As they say, “Hindsight is 20/20.”  Now, there is no arguing that [...]

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chrisgriffith on December 8th, 2008

Mortgage financing that you may not be aware of…. Home financing is available through the USDA – the zoning of the property is important, but you would be surprised at how many areas actually do qualify in Florida. Believe it or not, 100% financing IS still available. Features of these mortgages include: No Mortgage Insurance [...]

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chrisgriffith on July 20th, 2008

A Tale of Pricing Riverfront Gulf Access Homes Sometimes when homes don’t sell as fast as expected the homeowner becomes frustrated. The current state of the Bonita Springs real estate market has brought sales to some home sellers while other homes remain unsold. The only thing that is obvious about the current real estate market [...]

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chrisgriffith on June 30th, 2008

A good many of us have played a pinball machine. A friend of mine, “Big Al,” restores and maintains them as a hobby. He has a brilliant mind that can disassemble anything and reassemble it in better-than-new condition. Most importantly, he knows what they are worth. Friday afternoon we had a conversation about him “previewing” [...]

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