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Here is the Bellevue Real Estate Report for August 8, 2011:
INFO THAT HITS US WHERE WE LIVE…Last week’s silver lining for housing came in the form of mortgage rates, pushed lower by the cloud of financial market turmoil. The average 30-year fixed rate stayed near historic lows, while the average 15-year fixed rate hit a [...]

Here is the Bellevue Real Estate Report for August 1, 2011:
QUOTE OF THE WEEK…”Anything worth doing is worth doing slowly.”–Mae West
INFO THAT HITS US WHERE WE LIVE…Maybe the famous actress liked the slow approach, but it sure would be nice if our housing recovery were moving faster than a snail’s pace. Last week’s most positive [...]

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What Should I Say In My Short Sale Hardship Letter? Courtesy of Tni LeBlanc.
As a Santa Maria short sale agent, this is probably the most common question I’m asked by potential short sale sellers. It can easily become the “never-ending term paper,” you know, the one you never [...]

Here is the Bellevue Real Estate Report for July 25, 2011:
QUOTE OF THE WEEK…”Problems are the price of progress.”–Charles F. Kettering, American inventor
INFO THAT HITS US WHERE WE LIVE…Last week included both problems and progress in the housing market. Getting the problems out of the way, June Existing Home Sales came in down 0.8% versus [...]

Important Update on Housing Rights
Here is an interesting and humorous commentary from fellow Real Estate Broker J. Philip Faranda from NY.
Item: The Senate passed a measure late yesterday evening to ensure that buyers of homes have their rights to “Housing with Dignity.” The act’s precepts include the right to an home in “compliance” and other [...]

Here is the Bellevue Real Estate Report for July 18, 2011:
QUOTE OF THE WEEK…”There is no right way to do the wrong thing.”–Anonymous
INFO THAT HITS US WHERE WE LIVE…Increasingly, the wrong thing for consumers to do is to stay out of the housing market. In many locales, owning a home is now less expensive than [...]

Here is the Bellevue Real Estate Report for July 11, 2011:
QUOTE OF THE WEEK…”Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.”–Robert Louis Stevenson
INFO THAT HITS US WHERE WE LIVE…It finally appears seeds are being planted for a housing recovery. Fannie Mae’s monthly survey reported that Americans expect [...]

Here is the Bellevue Real Estate Report for July 5, 2011:
QUOTE OF THE WEEK…”Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.”–Mark Twain
INFO THAT HITS US WHERE WE LIVE…Last week’s housing market facts were so good, it was hard for commentators to distort them into the negative picture many like to paint. [...]

Here is the Bellevue Real Estate Report for June 27th, 2011:
INFO THAT HITS US WHERE WE LIVE…It certainly takes plenty of determination to find the opportunities in today’s housing market. Last week the National Association of Realtors (NAR) reported Existing Home Sales down 3.8% in May to an annual rate of 4.81 million units, a [...]

Here is the Bellevue Real Estate Report for June 20, 2011:
QUOTE OF THE WEEK…”Don’t look back. Something might be gaining on you.”–Satchel Paige, Hall of Fame pitcher who last played at age 59
INFO THAT HITS US WHERE WE LIVE… What was gaining on us last week were May Housing Starts, up 3.5% for the month [...]