chrisgriffith on August 17th, 2011

Buy a Foreclosure and Earn a Foursquare Badge! More often than not there is a buyer at the other end of the phone or an email requesting help to purchasing a foreclosure. Today, I actually received an email asking what’s the best value is, foreclosure or short sale? It’s been years since a day has [...]

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chrisgriffith on February 2nd, 2011

Foreclosure, Short Sale or Equity Owned Real Estate   For additional real estate reports for January 2011, read also: SW Florida Real Estate: Historical Sales January 2002-2011 Real Estate | What Price Range Sold January 2011? ### All information is deem accurate, not guaranteed and subject to change.  Check the date on this report for [...]

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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 January 7th, 2011

Foreclosure, Short Sale or Equity Owned Real Estate Real estate buyers are often interested in the amount of distressed real estate an area may be experiencing.  The month of December 2010 offered a slightly higher amount of short sales and foreclosures that closed.  The quarter end and year end likely had to do with the [...]

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chrisgriffith on August 4th, 2010

Unseen difficulty in short sale or foreclosure real estate transactions.

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chrisgriffith on December 9th, 2009

That Warm Fuzzy Feeling It’s that time of the year folks. It’s time to give. Give heartily and freely because it’s the right thing to do and there are so many people in need. Why I even received an email with the greatest header that read “Dignity, Peace, Prosperity” asking me to give, give, give. [...]

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chrisgriffith on October 28th, 2009

Foreclosure by Choice When did the mentality about walking away from the obligation of a home change? Maybe the change started when the possibility of owning a home was made so easy that anyone with a pulse and a blue ink pen could qualify for a loan. Home ownership was no longer a challenge for [...]

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chrisgriffith on September 16th, 2009

Finance Barbie: Fake Currency Included Party Dress & Yacht Sold Separately Several days ago I was crossing the state in my car. While listening to the radio I overheard a report of senior vice president, banking executive who had “borrowed” a bank owned home in Malibu, California for her own personal use and entertainment. On [...]

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chrisgriffith on September 3rd, 2009

The Banks Ran Me Around For Two Years and One Half Years   Two and one half years with no payments made to the bank, no response from the bank, no foreclosure, no loan modification, seven accepted offers at about $40,000 as a short sale on his home when he just needed and wanted an [...]

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chrisgriffith on September 2nd, 2009

Banks Get The Gold Mine Consumers Get The Shaft … and Jesus Loves You Sometimes actually getting the bank to give a loan modification doesn’t end with the borrower being getting their issues solved. Loan modifications are an emotional roller coaster. From the day a borrower finally gets a living, breathing human on the phone [...]

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chrisgriffith on August 16th, 2009

  Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy If you can’t see the video above, CLICK HERE. This is a little ditty about how the real estate market really is.  Many buyers of real estate worry that because the market is moving so swiftly they won’t get a great deal.  [...]

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chrisgriffith on August 13th, 2009

The Second Run of Investors “But I thought it was a buyer’s market” … That’s what the last buyer said to me that had put in a half dozen offers on homes and lost the contract on every single bid. It is, in fact, a buyers market but there are also a lot of buyers [...]

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chrisgriffith on August 10th, 2009

What is the condition of real estate sales in Bonita Springs and Estero Florida: Short Sale, Foreclosure or Regular?

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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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