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  • October 23, 2009 at 3:30 PM #473697
    Wickedheart
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    Kelly Bennett saw your message:
    http://tinyurl.com/yfttegg

    October 23, 2009 at 3:57 PM #472866
    equalizer
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    [quote=Wickedheart]Kelly Bennett saw your message:
    http://tinyurl.com/yfttegg%5B/quote%5D
    Yahoo had Kelly’s link for a minute on front page in local news section.

    October 23, 2009 at 3:57 PM #473042
    equalizer
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    [quote=Wickedheart]Kelly Bennett saw your message:
    http://tinyurl.com/yfttegg%5B/quote%5D
    Yahoo had Kelly’s link for a minute on front page in local news section.

    October 23, 2009 at 3:57 PM #473408
    equalizer
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    [quote=Wickedheart]Kelly Bennett saw your message:
    http://tinyurl.com/yfttegg%5B/quote%5D
    Yahoo had Kelly’s link for a minute on front page in local news section.

    October 23, 2009 at 3:57 PM #473484
    equalizer
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    [quote=Wickedheart]Kelly Bennett saw your message:
    http://tinyurl.com/yfttegg%5B/quote%5D
    Yahoo had Kelly’s link for a minute on front page in local news section.

    October 23, 2009 at 3:57 PM #473706
    equalizer
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    [quote=Wickedheart]Kelly Bennett saw your message:
    http://tinyurl.com/yfttegg%5B/quote%5D
    Yahoo had Kelly’s link for a minute on front page in local news section.

    October 23, 2009 at 4:16 PM #472871
    SD Realtor
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    I don’t have anything more to add then what has already been discussed. I think Russ and Dr Boom made the best point. With regards to Dr Boom, you need to figure out a way to minimize the prejudice that accompanies any VA offers. VA offers are great deals. I had a listing in the spring and the buyer was VA and we sold it to them. It went off without a hitch. They overbid the other offers and we took it. As previously mentioned, the VA inspection, (which is also true for FHA) is such that any items flagged MUST be payed for by the seller. So maybe you figure out a way to overcome that, perhaps making sure that all these things are remedied prior to the inspection at your expense rather then the sellers. How you do that, well you need to be creative. You may have to extend yourself and there will be an element of trust…

    As for the market conditions and market bottoms? No I don’t see it being a bottom at all either. We have already bounced in many areas. Which is more frustrating, no jobs or no good deals on homes? It all sucks and is all manipulated. Yet it continues and will continue. For all those who wish for the tax credit to go away, it could very well be replaced by a bigger one!!! How f’d up would that be? Alternately there are some who predicted that the entire economy would be crashing around Halloween or so… maybe that will happen.

    Finally in terms of sellers thinking that nobody will get residential loans anymore and dumping properties for well below list price for cash? Not so sure about that.

    I have seen more then a few homes go for below list price because of cash deals but moreso because they will not get the loan due to damage, remediation or other items, not because the lender secretly thing the bottom is falling out of the residential loan industry.

    I believe Obama will peel money out of his wallet personally to finance your home before he lets residential lending go belly up. So I don’t see that as a concern.

    We recently took a cash offer on one of our deals that was about 6% lower then the financed offers we had received but that was also accompanied by a 12 day escrow. We did it because of the rollover of putting that money into another opportunity, not because we felt the residential loan industry was kaput.

    Try to keep the faith. Also as posted by others, work with a good VA guy hang in there.

    October 23, 2009 at 4:16 PM #473047
    SD Realtor
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    I don’t have anything more to add then what has already been discussed. I think Russ and Dr Boom made the best point. With regards to Dr Boom, you need to figure out a way to minimize the prejudice that accompanies any VA offers. VA offers are great deals. I had a listing in the spring and the buyer was VA and we sold it to them. It went off without a hitch. They overbid the other offers and we took it. As previously mentioned, the VA inspection, (which is also true for FHA) is such that any items flagged MUST be payed for by the seller. So maybe you figure out a way to overcome that, perhaps making sure that all these things are remedied prior to the inspection at your expense rather then the sellers. How you do that, well you need to be creative. You may have to extend yourself and there will be an element of trust…

    As for the market conditions and market bottoms? No I don’t see it being a bottom at all either. We have already bounced in many areas. Which is more frustrating, no jobs or no good deals on homes? It all sucks and is all manipulated. Yet it continues and will continue. For all those who wish for the tax credit to go away, it could very well be replaced by a bigger one!!! How f’d up would that be? Alternately there are some who predicted that the entire economy would be crashing around Halloween or so… maybe that will happen.

    Finally in terms of sellers thinking that nobody will get residential loans anymore and dumping properties for well below list price for cash? Not so sure about that.

    I have seen more then a few homes go for below list price because of cash deals but moreso because they will not get the loan due to damage, remediation or other items, not because the lender secretly thing the bottom is falling out of the residential loan industry.

    I believe Obama will peel money out of his wallet personally to finance your home before he lets residential lending go belly up. So I don’t see that as a concern.

    We recently took a cash offer on one of our deals that was about 6% lower then the financed offers we had received but that was also accompanied by a 12 day escrow. We did it because of the rollover of putting that money into another opportunity, not because we felt the residential loan industry was kaput.

    Try to keep the faith. Also as posted by others, work with a good VA guy hang in there.

    October 23, 2009 at 4:16 PM #473413
    SD Realtor
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    I don’t have anything more to add then what has already been discussed. I think Russ and Dr Boom made the best point. With regards to Dr Boom, you need to figure out a way to minimize the prejudice that accompanies any VA offers. VA offers are great deals. I had a listing in the spring and the buyer was VA and we sold it to them. It went off without a hitch. They overbid the other offers and we took it. As previously mentioned, the VA inspection, (which is also true for FHA) is such that any items flagged MUST be payed for by the seller. So maybe you figure out a way to overcome that, perhaps making sure that all these things are remedied prior to the inspection at your expense rather then the sellers. How you do that, well you need to be creative. You may have to extend yourself and there will be an element of trust…

    As for the market conditions and market bottoms? No I don’t see it being a bottom at all either. We have already bounced in many areas. Which is more frustrating, no jobs or no good deals on homes? It all sucks and is all manipulated. Yet it continues and will continue. For all those who wish for the tax credit to go away, it could very well be replaced by a bigger one!!! How f’d up would that be? Alternately there are some who predicted that the entire economy would be crashing around Halloween or so… maybe that will happen.

    Finally in terms of sellers thinking that nobody will get residential loans anymore and dumping properties for well below list price for cash? Not so sure about that.

    I have seen more then a few homes go for below list price because of cash deals but moreso because they will not get the loan due to damage, remediation or other items, not because the lender secretly thing the bottom is falling out of the residential loan industry.

    I believe Obama will peel money out of his wallet personally to finance your home before he lets residential lending go belly up. So I don’t see that as a concern.

    We recently took a cash offer on one of our deals that was about 6% lower then the financed offers we had received but that was also accompanied by a 12 day escrow. We did it because of the rollover of putting that money into another opportunity, not because we felt the residential loan industry was kaput.

    Try to keep the faith. Also as posted by others, work with a good VA guy hang in there.

    October 23, 2009 at 4:16 PM #473489
    SD Realtor
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    I don’t have anything more to add then what has already been discussed. I think Russ and Dr Boom made the best point. With regards to Dr Boom, you need to figure out a way to minimize the prejudice that accompanies any VA offers. VA offers are great deals. I had a listing in the spring and the buyer was VA and we sold it to them. It went off without a hitch. They overbid the other offers and we took it. As previously mentioned, the VA inspection, (which is also true for FHA) is such that any items flagged MUST be payed for by the seller. So maybe you figure out a way to overcome that, perhaps making sure that all these things are remedied prior to the inspection at your expense rather then the sellers. How you do that, well you need to be creative. You may have to extend yourself and there will be an element of trust…

    As for the market conditions and market bottoms? No I don’t see it being a bottom at all either. We have already bounced in many areas. Which is more frustrating, no jobs or no good deals on homes? It all sucks and is all manipulated. Yet it continues and will continue. For all those who wish for the tax credit to go away, it could very well be replaced by a bigger one!!! How f’d up would that be? Alternately there are some who predicted that the entire economy would be crashing around Halloween or so… maybe that will happen.

    Finally in terms of sellers thinking that nobody will get residential loans anymore and dumping properties for well below list price for cash? Not so sure about that.

    I have seen more then a few homes go for below list price because of cash deals but moreso because they will not get the loan due to damage, remediation or other items, not because the lender secretly thing the bottom is falling out of the residential loan industry.

    I believe Obama will peel money out of his wallet personally to finance your home before he lets residential lending go belly up. So I don’t see that as a concern.

    We recently took a cash offer on one of our deals that was about 6% lower then the financed offers we had received but that was also accompanied by a 12 day escrow. We did it because of the rollover of putting that money into another opportunity, not because we felt the residential loan industry was kaput.

    Try to keep the faith. Also as posted by others, work with a good VA guy hang in there.

    October 23, 2009 at 4:16 PM #473711
    SD Realtor
    Participant

    I don’t have anything more to add then what has already been discussed. I think Russ and Dr Boom made the best point. With regards to Dr Boom, you need to figure out a way to minimize the prejudice that accompanies any VA offers. VA offers are great deals. I had a listing in the spring and the buyer was VA and we sold it to them. It went off without a hitch. They overbid the other offers and we took it. As previously mentioned, the VA inspection, (which is also true for FHA) is such that any items flagged MUST be payed for by the seller. So maybe you figure out a way to overcome that, perhaps making sure that all these things are remedied prior to the inspection at your expense rather then the sellers. How you do that, well you need to be creative. You may have to extend yourself and there will be an element of trust…

    As for the market conditions and market bottoms? No I don’t see it being a bottom at all either. We have already bounced in many areas. Which is more frustrating, no jobs or no good deals on homes? It all sucks and is all manipulated. Yet it continues and will continue. For all those who wish for the tax credit to go away, it could very well be replaced by a bigger one!!! How f’d up would that be? Alternately there are some who predicted that the entire economy would be crashing around Halloween or so… maybe that will happen.

    Finally in terms of sellers thinking that nobody will get residential loans anymore and dumping properties for well below list price for cash? Not so sure about that.

    I have seen more then a few homes go for below list price because of cash deals but moreso because they will not get the loan due to damage, remediation or other items, not because the lender secretly thing the bottom is falling out of the residential loan industry.

    I believe Obama will peel money out of his wallet personally to finance your home before he lets residential lending go belly up. So I don’t see that as a concern.

    We recently took a cash offer on one of our deals that was about 6% lower then the financed offers we had received but that was also accompanied by a 12 day escrow. We did it because of the rollover of putting that money into another opportunity, not because we felt the residential loan industry was kaput.

    Try to keep the faith. Also as posted by others, work with a good VA guy hang in there.

    October 23, 2009 at 4:20 PM #472876
    fredo4
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    I feel your pain. My advice would be to do what we did and find a really great rental house (perhaps in the area where you’d like to eventually buy) and hunker down for the next few months (or years)until things are less weird. The truth is that nobody knows how this is all going to pan out with all of the government intervention. Why fight over the few crummy houses available to buy? Wait until buying conditions are more in your favor. It’s better to keep liquid in these uncertain times anyway.

    October 23, 2009 at 4:20 PM #473053
    fredo4
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    I feel your pain. My advice would be to do what we did and find a really great rental house (perhaps in the area where you’d like to eventually buy) and hunker down for the next few months (or years)until things are less weird. The truth is that nobody knows how this is all going to pan out with all of the government intervention. Why fight over the few crummy houses available to buy? Wait until buying conditions are more in your favor. It’s better to keep liquid in these uncertain times anyway.

    October 23, 2009 at 4:20 PM #473418
    fredo4
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    I feel your pain. My advice would be to do what we did and find a really great rental house (perhaps in the area where you’d like to eventually buy) and hunker down for the next few months (or years)until things are less weird. The truth is that nobody knows how this is all going to pan out with all of the government intervention. Why fight over the few crummy houses available to buy? Wait until buying conditions are more in your favor. It’s better to keep liquid in these uncertain times anyway.

    October 23, 2009 at 4:20 PM #473494
    fredo4
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    I feel your pain. My advice would be to do what we did and find a really great rental house (perhaps in the area where you’d like to eventually buy) and hunker down for the next few months (or years)until things are less weird. The truth is that nobody knows how this is all going to pan out with all of the government intervention. Why fight over the few crummy houses available to buy? Wait until buying conditions are more in your favor. It’s better to keep liquid in these uncertain times anyway.

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