Landlords who don’t take the proper steps in securing their units can make their tenants easy marks for criminals. As a property owner, if you fail to take the proper precautions you could be held liable for damage done to your property, your tenant’s property or to your tenants themselves. Landlords can especially be held [...]

In today’s market your return on investment is much greater in the digital world than it ever was in the print world. Online marketing lets you post in one virtual place that is accessible to thousands upon thousands of house hunters who can find you without leaving the comfort of their home. Posting your home [...]

A circle, a roller coaster, a teeter-totter, any metaphor you want to use is fine, but one thing is for certain: the real estate market is full of ups and downs. It may be hard to pinpoint where the circle begins, but it definitely follows a rinse, lather, repeat pattern.   Let’s start at what [...]

The “shadow inventory” in an area represents the amount of homes that are in pre-foreclosure status and bank-owned homes (REOs) that are not yet listed on the MLS. These properties are in the “shadows” waiting to hit the market sometime in the near future. A large shadow inventory brings with it a sense that the [...]

January 7th of this year resulted in one of the decade’s largest settlements between foreclosed homeowners and their lenders. About 4 million homeowners who were treated poorly in the foreclosure crisis by 10 big banks nationwide will receive payment for their ordeals. Eligible borrowers include those in the foreclosure process during 2009 and 2010. They [...]