Any ratings source for a realtors for home buying ?
I am trying to buy a house and would like to choose a realtor. what options should I consider in choosing a realtor. I have no friends who are realtors. I have a few recommendations. But how would I narrow the ONE. Are there websites that rate the realtors? Like CNEt for electronics or rate my professors for professors, are there any websites with the realestate agent reviews or rating. Any tips in helping choose a realtor is greatly appreciated.
I am looking for one in grand rapids michigan.
There are no sites that rate realtors.
I would pick a realtor and use them a day BEFORE you sign a buyer broker agreement. OR sign the buyer agreement for a one day period only.
Treat the one day they take you out as a job interview. Did they ask you questions about what you want in a home, area, price, etc. And then did they show you want you wanted and explain the questions you had.
Why do realtors seem very eager to sell at first?
Realtors seem real interested to sell to you at first then start slacking off and isn’t really assisting in their search you have to remind them what you wanted and ask hey did you find any homes like the ones I have asked about?
Why do they "lose interest"?
1. They don’t think you’re serious about buying (how long has the search gone on for?).
2. They don’t think you’re realistic about your budget/location and needs/wants and the reality of finding your "dream home" simply won’t happen as it stands.
3. The realtor has ADD or they’re extremely unorganized or lazy or have other priorities and do put you on the back burner. This is a perfect example of my former business partner and the reason why we lost several clients (he wouldn’t let me take charge and so they walked away and went with someone else).
4. They really don’t like you and it’s their immature way of hoping you’d stop working with them (seen this happen).
Are realtors required to give a copy of the contract to the sellers?
We are attempting to sell our house and signed a contract with a local realtor. The realtor has not given us a copy of the contract after telling us one would be emailed. Now the realtor won’t answer emails, letters or phone calls. Are realtors required to give a copy of the signed contract to the sellers and what can we do about it? I don’t want to have to camp out at the office in order to finally see her.
Contact the managing broker of the office in which you agent works. The office has a copy of the signed listing contract and will forward one to you.
What is the best realty company to work for in Florida?
I’m looking for anyone who has worked for these companies Keyes, Keller Williams, Coldwell Banker etc. I already know that I need one that provides great training and mentoring, which is why I want details on your experience with these companies and which one you think is best. No generic answers please!
Keller Williams or Remax is about the best. Florida also has some small independent realtors that provide what your looking for depending on your area of interest.
How can a realty company take posession of my land and assets when I own it?
A realtor has taken twenty feet of my land including a well and driveway claiming it as theirs. I have owned this land for over ten years although I’ve never fenced it or lived on it.
You may be mistaken.
You would have to have a licensed surveyor mark the lines in a dispute.
How are this houses selling for so little?
I was looking at some houses in California and they were going for like 30-40K. They were beautiful homes and I just wonder how they can sell so cheap? Copy/paste to see the house I am speaking of. Be sure to copy and paste it in your yahoo address bar at the top of the computer screen.
http://realestate.yahoo.com/California/Beverly_Hills/14135-beresford-rd:af49968222f395148ab9a18d91efc2;_ylt=Auh2_ib0t_Z8MFG5yJW4Kqln47Qs
No, no, that’s not a selling price! The $29,000 for that home is the monthly RENT.
See the description. I know it starts out saying "For sale or lease" and I know the page shows the price as a mortgage price, but it’s a short-term rental price. At the end of the description, it says "Also for sale." because they’re talking about the rental in this listing.
Is there any website which can give me Fair Market Value of a home?
I’m not talking about zillow.com’s Zestimate or RealEstate.com’s not-so-accurate market values. I’m asking about a website that can give me an accurate Fair Market Value, is there any?
No, nothing like that exists and can not be possible to do, zillow is an example of a failed attempt.
Only an appraiser can give you the value if you need it for a legal purpose.
Otherwise any decent real estate agent can give you a BPO, which is pretty accorate if the agent is good.
what do you think about the domain www.earlyproperties.com is it sutable for realestate bussiness websit?
please send the review just on domain name i know i parked it so i don’t want any clicks just let me know how the domain name looks
give the rating to domain name only
Sure.
What Do You Think – Couple Gets Blasted For Using Law Written in the 1800s To Keep Their Home?
The Iowa couple, Matt and Jamie Rae Danielson, are now under scrutiny from skeptics who are wondering if perhaps the couple devised a "win-a-free-home" scheme from the get-go.
It all started when Matt Danielson and his broker, Jason Larson, arranged an impromptu meeting at a mall food court to sign the CitiMortgage financing documents for their new construction 3-bedroom home that they had been negotiating for a while.
Matt dialed his wife’s cell, but didn’t reach her; so in a rushed session he signed the papers without her, finalizing a $320,000 mortgage for 100 percent of the sale price, which included an additional $50,000 to finish the basement.
In Iowa, if only one spouse signs a mortgage document, creditors have little recourse of coming after the home. The state’s homestead law dating back nearly 125 years to 1888 — a law which might soon get rewritten — says mortgages are not valid until they are signed by both spouses.
"People are threatening to burn our house down. There are nasty blogs going around where people are outraged," a distraught-sounding Matt said. He says he and his wife didn’t seek this loophole when they purchased their house in May 2007.
"You don’t make this kind of thing happen. It happens to you."
http://realestate.aol.com/blog/2011/03/22/couple-owns-home-after-one-payment-due-to-foreclosure-glitch/?icid=maing|main5|dl3|sec1_lnk3|51327
Dumb as hell on all fronts.
Only a moron would accept a mortgage signed by only one owner.
Law in every state.
When underwriting once, I refused to accept a mortgage because husband and wife were in title and the husband said the wife was "unable to sign".
Turns out she was dead in the trunk of his car……
Law isn’t all that hard. If you own, you sign on any encumberance
What Do You Think – Couple Gets Blasted For Using Law Written in the 1800s To Keep Their Home?
he Iowa couple, Matt and Jamie Rae Danielson, are now under scrutiny from skeptics who are wondering if perhaps the couple devised a "win-a-free-home" scheme from the get-go.
It all started when Matt Danielson and his broker, Jason Larson, arranged an impromptu meeting at a mall food court to sign the CitiMortgage financing documents for their new construction 3-bedroom home that they had been negotiating for a while.
Matt dialed his wife’s cell, but didn’t reach her; so in a rushed session he signed the papers without her, finalizing a $320,000 mortgage for 100 percent of the sale price, which included an additional $50,000 to finish the basement.
In Iowa, if only one spouse signs a mortgage document, creditors have little recourse of coming after the home. The state’s homestead law dating back nearly 125 years to 1888 — a law which might soon get rewritten — says mortgages are not valid until they are signed by both spouses.
"People are threatening to burn our house down. There are nasty blogs going around where people are outraged," a distraught-sounding Matt said. He says he and his wife didn’t seek this loophole when they purchased their house in May 2007.
"You don’t make this kind of thing happen. It happens to you."
http://realestate.aol.com/blog/2011/03/22/couple-owns-home-after-one-payment-due-to-foreclosure-glitch/?icid=maing|main5|dl3|sec1_lnk3|51327
Law in IA is that both people have to sign the document. Only husband did. And everyone is assuming that the husband would have been aware of the law and was planning a scam, when CitiMortgage did NOT know the law? Give me a break. Citi is at fault for processing the mortgage and ever giving them possession in the first place.