6.25.12 Monday News You can USE!

“Success is getting what you want..
Happiness is wanting what you get.”
― Dale Carnegie

Tighter supply of lower priced homes Slowing Sales (??spin selling here??)

$100,000 Rentals Not that rare 

Priciest Cities to Rent

Ways to Work with Chinese Investors  Or... find some Local ones instead to buy at all time lowest prices and rates! :)

Here's a "No Duh!"  Mortgage reductions are working and there's $13 Billion that the big banks must spend on Mortgage reductions!  Seems like Government/Judicial involvement may get this solved after all...

Recovery?  To show your Sellers: May numbers discouraging

6.18.2012 Monday News you can USE

“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
― Maya Angelou

Make Someone Feel Good today!!!

Cities leveling housing: Why?

Why Banks WANT to work with HARP: Money

Why there aren't more homes for sale. (California at 2005 numbers)

Compare what $163.000 Buys across the country! FUN READ

Canada sales up 3.8% Nationwide! Details Here

Are you using Dropbox?   You should be!  Very very very handy tool for agents and file/document handling. If you're not sure why you should use it - send me an email to mike.stott@mac.com and I'll tell you!

Compliments of The "Feel Good by Doing Good" Coaches at
YourCoachingMatters.com

6.11.12 Monday NEWS you can USE!

Mortgage Rates at 62 year low It's never been lower guys - are you spreading that news to the rooftops!  WHY NOT??  - It's the best time in the history to buy real estate in the US!

A bunch of Experts answer the question: has the market bottomed out?

As the boomers age is this a market we should explore?

Foreclosures made up 26% of all sales in 1st quarter wonder how many short sales were done?

Foreign investors in Toronto helping fuel price increases!

One of the things we love about real estate - it's a career with Heart! :)
"When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.” --Betty Bender

From the Gang at Your Coaching Matters.... here to help!

6.4.2012 Monday News you can USE!

“So be sure when you step, Step with care and great tact. And remember that life's A Great Balancing Act.

And will you succeed? Yes! You will, indeed! (98 and ¾ percent guaranteed) Kid, you'll move mountains.”

― Dr. Seuss, Oh, The Places You'll Go!

What would you do today if you were guaranteed success? If you knew you could not fail?  If every 10th person you asked said "Yes, I AM moving this year" ?- Here's the secret … they do! Over 12,000 coaching calls and tracking of the numbers prove it! 

Housing Market -in Slow Recovery

Location, Location, Location - trailers renting for $2000 a month

This could be a game changer - FNMA and FHLMC exploring principal reduction refinances in Nevada

People do criminal things when they are desperate - HOA scam

Canada's Market still going strong

5.21.12 Monday News you can USE

I have never seen a bad television program, because I refuse to. God gave me a mind, and a wrist that turns things off.
- Jack Paar

What choices are you making with regards to what's going into your head? YCM

Have clients who went through foreclosure? Check this out!    The banks are sending out 4 million more letters to offer to pay restitution to those they made mistakes on - only 4.1% responded to the first mailing!  I wonder if they mailed it to the foreclosed property address :)

Hey - all you Canadian Real Estate agents - your clients are investing in the USA maybe you should refer some of them to fellow YCM agents!!

Time Magazine - Housing recovery has officially begun!

Interesting statistics in this Article - Bank of America offering up to $30,000 to complete a short sale!
Average Sales  Price Foreclosure: $150,000  Short Sales: $185,000 and then add in increased expenses with a foreclosure for taxes, maintenance fees, condition of the home, and attorneys fees and it's easy to see this makes dollars and sense! Wells Fargo and Chase are also contemplating doing more of this!

Got a neighborhood farm - look at this NextDoor.com cool site with some really useful features.

Are you ready for the Echo Boomers?

5.14.12 Monday News you can USE!

John Maxwell says - “If we’re growing, we’re always going to be out of our comfort zone.”

How are you growing today?
What are you going to do today that makes you a little bit uncomfortable and will help you reach your goals?

Buyers - Mortgages at New Lows

Inventory Down 41% - And when that happens, what normally happens to prices?

10 Markets Poised for Double Digit Gains - Is one of them YOURS? BIGGEST NEWS TO SHARE!

Let us know which expert you think is right? Is now the best time to buy your first home?

How to fire a pushy agent - Some good nuggets and insight into a buyers mind.

Great Ideas are valuable How one Canadian traded a paperclip for a house!  Play Big & Better this week!  Love this quote:
The experience wasn’t about gaining a house. It was the power of “working together to make it happen” and being “open to adventure”.If I had not traded away that first paperclip, none of this would have happened”  It’s not really about paperclips, he says, but how you network with individuals and touch their lives.

From The Coaches at Your Coaching Matters
Kate Vail
Donna Fleetwood
Ilona Matteson
Donna Stott
Mike Stott

5.8.12 Monday News you can USE

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
― H. Jackson Brown Jr., author: P.S. I Love You

Buy Now! Homes won't be getting more affordable

Inventory Down in Many Cities

Mortgage Rates at Record Lows

100 Markets Improving

Anybody noticing a trend here?  Get your buyers to take action now!   Call Expireds from a year ago - Knock on a FSBO's door - the market is changing. Are you working it to your advantage?