chrisgriffith on January 12th, 2011

Choosing a Short Sale Listing Agent While email isn’t new or revolutionary in real estate it has become instrumental to the success of most contract negotiations and closings, especially when a property is a short sale or a foreclosure. This isn’t a general whine about real estate agents that don’t or won’t properly use email. [...]

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chrisgriffith on March 24th, 2010

Foreclosures, Streamlined For Your Enjoyment If you have your heart set on buying a foreclosure and to great deal bank by taking one of their “assets” off of their hands you should erase just about any romantic notion from your thought process that it will be fast, easy and painless. With the ease and speed [...]

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chrisgriffith on October 22nd, 2009

  Yeah, this just about boils it down to the ugly reality of buying an, reo, foreclosure, bank owned home. If you do not see the video above CLICK HERE.

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chrisgriffith on May 16th, 2009

Notes From A Foreclosed Home Owner The home buyers and real estate agents shopping in the current market see just about everything when dealing with foreclosures or bank owned homes and especially their swimming pools. Sometimes, it is clear that vengeance is all that is left.  Homes are destroyed by the owner because they’re so [...]

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chrisgriffith on November 29th, 2008

What if We’re Not Going to Hell in a Hand Basket? On the heals of my column about how many mortgages are actually being given to buyers of Southwest Florida real estate. This is across the board: Bonita Springs, Estero, Fort Myers, Fort Myers Beach, Lehigh, Cape Coral, North Fort Myers. Read also: Will Banks [...]

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chrisgriffith on August 18th, 2008

Banks Still Can’t Sell Real Estate There probably isn’t any way to fully illustrate the pain and suffering that is involved with a transaction that involves a bank or lending institution. I’m not sure that I can even come up with a comparable or an analogy to demonstrate how unorganized, inefficient and ridiculous the procedure [...]

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chrisgriffith on May 10th, 2008

Do You Want a Couple of New Toilets? “I never thought I would be one of those people.” he said. Frankly, I never thought he would be one of those people, either. We’ve all read about foreclosure and we’ve seen a few stories on TV but may not have the chance to see it up [...]

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chrisgriffith on April 1st, 2008

Foreclosure Real Estate Isn’t Always The Best Deal Sunday evening I met a buyer to look at a foreclosure home listing just North of Bonita Springs, Florida. The foreclosure real estate market in parts of Bonita Springs, Estero and South Fort Myers moves swiftly so we drove to look at the home right away. What [...]

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chrisgriffith on March 26th, 2008

(x + 1)2 + (2×2 + x + 1) = Bottom of the Market Everyone knows there are a whole bunch of fence riders out there. Buyers are watching the market, waiting to get in at the “right time”. When is the right time? What magic number is a buyer waiting for or what feeling [...]

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chrisgriffith on February 18th, 2008

Sellers, Is Your Home a Prize Fighter or a Bench Warmer? Today I will be out with a lovely couple from Wisconsin looking for their Florida home. I try to stay upbeat and not hyper critical of what other agents consider “marketing” but it’s a nightmare, plain and simple. It is literally a struggle for [...]

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