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What to expect with the Escrow Process

Posted in Conejo Valley News, General Real Estate, Home Buyers, Home Sellers, Listings, Los Angeles County Real Estate, Real Estate, San Fernando Valley Real Estate, Southern California Real Estate, Thousand Oaks Real Estate, Ventura County Real Estate, West Hills Real Estate, Westlake Village Real Estate on February 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Escrow is an impartial, unbiased third party, working for buyer and seller. Escrow holds funds and documents on behalf of the buyers and sellers and distributes them according to buyer and seller instructions.
To start the process, the agent (usually the listing agent), delivers to the escrow officer such items as, but not limited to, [...]

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What does the new 2009 Stimulus Package have for Homeowners?

Posted in Conejo Valley News, General Real Estate, Home Buyers, Home Sellers, Los Angeles County Real Estate, Oak Park Real Estate, Real Estate, Real Estate News, Real Estate Sales Data, San Fernando Valley Real Estate, Southern California Real Estate, Thousand Oaks Real Estate, Ventura County Real Estate, West Hills Real Estate, Westlake Village Real Estate, foreclosure, foreclosure crisis, foreclosures, housing crisis, real estate crisis on February 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

This is the first in 4 or 5 part series we will do on where we are, how we got here and where we feel the SoCal Housing Market is going in 2009/2010. Your comments and emails are always welcome, please don’t be shy about giving feedback or asking for clarification.
There has been an incredible [...]

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Breaking News for Investors!

Posted in Conejo Valley News, Home Buyers, Los Angeles County Real Estate, Oak Park Real Estate, Real Estate Investing, Real Estate Investors, Real Estate News, San Fernando Valley Real Estate, Southern California Real Estate, Thousand Oaks Real Estate, Ventura County Real Estate, West Hills Real Estate, Westlake Village Real Estate, foreclosure crisis on February 17, 2009 | 1 Comment »

Fannie Mae just lifted the 4 property limit for investors who are buying properties backed with Freddie or Fannie loans. You can get the skinny here directly from Fannie Mae.
The highlights include:
Minimum FICO Score of 720
6 months reserve (PITI) for each unit over 4
No late mortgage payments in the last 12 months
No BK or foreclosure [...]

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So you think foreclosures are a good deal…

Posted in Conejo Valley News, General Real Estate, Home Buyers, Home Sellers, Los Angeles County Real Estate, Oak Park Real Estate, Real Estate, Real Estate Investing, Real Estate Investors, Real Estate News, San Fernando Valley Real Estate, Southern California Real Estate, Thousand Oaks Real Estate, Ventura County Real Estate, West Hills Real Estate, Westlake Village Real Estate, foreclosure, foreclosure crisis, foreclosures, housing crisis, real estate crisis on February 14, 2009 | 1 Comment »

On Friday, Richard and I previewed several homes for one of our clients who is looking for a 4 bedroom home in West Hills. The price range for our client  is $450K.  In our computer search, many homes showed up and about 5 of them had what our client was looking for. May we remind [...]

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Short Sale Secrets

Posted in Conejo Valley News, Home Sellers, Los Angeles County Real Estate, Oak Park Real Estate, San Fernando Valley Real Estate, Southern California Real Estate, Thousand Oaks Real Estate, Ventura County Real Estate, West Hills Real Estate, Westlake Village Real Estate on February 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

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Real Estate Update February 4, 2009

Posted in Conejo Valley News on February 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

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Property Tax Fraud Alert!

Posted in Conejo Valley News, Home Sellers, Los Angeles County Real Estate, Oak Park Real Estate, Real Estate Fraud, San Fernando Valley Real Estate, Southern California Real Estate, Thousand Oaks Real Estate, Ventura County Real Estate, West Hills Real Estate, Westlake Village Real Estate on February 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Kirsten wrote a great blog entry on this a couple of days ago, I just wanted to reiterate the point.

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Video Blog Starts today!

Posted in Conejo Valley News, General Real Estate, Home Buyers, Home Sellers, Los Angeles County Real Estate, Oak Park Real Estate, Real Estate News, San Fernando Valley Real Estate, Southern California Real Estate, Thousand Oaks Real Estate, Ventura County Real Estate, West Hills Real Estate, Westlake Village Real Estate on February 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

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So you received a letter from Property Tax Assessment… what should you do?

Posted in Conejo Valley News, Los Angeles County Real Estate, Oak Park Real Estate, Real Estate, Real Estate Fraud, Real Estate News, San Fernando Valley Real Estate, Southern California Real Estate, Thousand Oaks Real Estate, Ventura County Real Estate, West Hills Real Estate, Westlake Village Real Estate, housing crisis on February 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

There are always people and “companies” who will attempt to make money on any situation and this week, we learned of yet another.  We, along, with many of our friends, received a letter from Property Tax Assessment a few days ago.
In the letter it states that our property may have an over-assessed by an amount [...]

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