chrisgriffith on August 11th, 2010

Propertly listing a short sale to appraise and close sale.

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chrisgriffith on August 5th, 2010

Short Sales & Foreclosures vs. Equity real estate sales.

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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 July 21st, 2010

Short sales are subject to third party approval and discovery of fees and back assessments that may need to be paid in order to close.

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chrisgriffith on July 14th, 2010

Someone Has To Buy Those Homes How does one eat an elephant? The answer is one bite at a time. There were so many distressed properties on the market at one time that is was almost insurmountable to believe that it could ever be behind us. In a market full of short sales and foreclosures [...]

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chrisgriffith on July 7th, 2010

Scammers take advantage of distressed home owners when they’re confused by foreclosure.

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chrisgriffith on July 6th, 2010

How many short sales and foreclosures are in the local Florida real estate market?

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chrisgriffith on June 30th, 2010

Selling distessed real estate is a legal issue not a real estate issue.

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chrisgriffith on June 6th, 2010

What percentage of SW Florida Real Estate sales was a short sale, a foreclosure or equity owned.

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chrisgriffith on May 17th, 2010

Coughing Up Info Before The Real Estate Hunt What do you have to divulge before you buy real estate?  The short version is “it depends”.  The longer version comes after you decided what you’re thinking about budgeting for your real estate and how you’re going to pay for the real estate. It really doesn’t matter [...]

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chrisgriffith on April 19th, 2010

Four People Shot By Pool in Bonita Springs, Fla There is no faster way to clear off a pool deck than to announce to the general area, “I am here to take pictures.”  Today, as I quietly took pictures someone in the pool, yes, the pool asked to take my picture with his friends.  He [...]

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chrisgriffith on April 7th, 2010

Loyalty in Real Estate Goes Both Ways It’s probably happened to just about any real estate agent out there whether the agent realizes it or not. Cold hearted, white lyin’, running off into the sunset with another real estate agent kind of cheating. The short sale phenomenon in the market has fanned the flames of [...]

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chrisgriffith on January 27th, 2010

Foreclosure Real Estate It’s just murder out there this time of the year. Homes priced under $200,000 are tearing it up in the market. The closer the price of the home gets to entry level pricing the faster new listings hit and leave the market. Buyers snap them up fast when they’re a great deal [...]

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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 4th, 2010

How Much of Our Market is Short Sale & Foreclosure? The area that this report covers is all real estate sold in SW Florida from Marco Island, Naples, Fort Myers, Fort Myers Beach, Bonita Springs, Estero and outlying areas. If it was registered in the Sunshine MLS, it was counted in this report.  A little [...]

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