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Open House HUD Home

Come and see us at our open house 11:00 - 1:00this weekend 3687 Hawkins, Meridian Idaho

HUD Home. Beautiful home in Champion Park with many quality features. Constructed in 2005 with extensive hardwood floors, tile kitchen countertops and backsplash, and an open floor plan. Property is NOT located in a FEMA Special Flood Hazard Area but is listed as a low to moderate flood risk. Please refer to www.FloodSmart.gov for additional information regarding flood zones & insurance. HOA Association fee of $250 Annually-Champion Park.

Sandy Hurricane relief

The Best way that you can help is to donate to your local Red Cross.  Don’t fall for the email and website fishing scams.  I am providing the link for the American Red Cross of Idaho.  You can give money or blood.  These are all needed on the East Coast!

First Time Dream Owner!

Many of my past clients are probably considered to be first time home buyers, this because they have either rented, bought manufactured housing or just plain moved all over the country.

When searching for homes, many of the folks have a certain mindset that makes them believe that they can’t have the home that they have been dreaming of for years.  It is the belief that this type of home is to retire into or pay exorbitant amounts of money.  Every one of the buyers has a base plan of what they want.  My job as an agent for first time buyers is to show homes that most represent their current dream. Now will this be the home that they spend the rest of their time? Probably not, but that is only because tastes change and visions change.

A dream home is most likely the culmination of several factors;
 

§  Price

§  Area

§  Schools

§  Churches

§  Crime rate

§  Type of home (single level, neighborhood attributes etc.)

There are those buyers that have the forethought to realize they are buying the first of maybe several homes in their lifetime.  But others prefer to live for the moment and the times.  There is give and take with any home, unless you are building a house from ground up, established homes are your choice.

Dream homes are a matter of opinion.  Realtors do their homework to search out the best suited properties to fill the wants of the buyers.  Remember those give and takes are good rules to live with.  The buyer needs to know if they are going to be happy in the choice of houses that you offer for several years.  Remember the “dream Home” is in the eye of the buyer!

Pumping up the pain!

Listening to the local news you would believe that the upcoming election has something to do with the gas prices being the highest in four years! Well, prices have always been political games that play into the miserable economy.

Every president since and including Ronald Regan have tried to appease the motoring public by assigning the Attorney General to investigate the high prices of gasoline.  Fact of the matter is that no leader of the free world, Republican or Democrat has the power to change gas prices. 

Our prices in Boise Idaho seem to be some of the lowest in the country right now, however, it is reported that they will take a fall even further in the next month. You ask how they know.  The oil companies have now got a small glut of oil and they need to get it off the books.  They use the motoring public as the pawns.  This is always the time of year prices come down and as soon as the extra oil is used up the prices will go back up oh say about Thanksgiving and Christmas. 

The fact of the matter is that the oil companies have complete control over the prices and they are waiting for the next reason to stick it to the little guy.  Enjoy low prices when you can for they will soon eat more of your wallet space!

Blah blah, Home Sales, Blah Blah

It seems that there are so many opinions on the housing market that you can’t figure out what is real and what is pumping up the numbers. Who do you believe when it comes to stats?  One day the article says resale’s are on the rise, later that day you read that the market is still crawling out of a hole.

I don’t know of many in the real estate business that are jumping up and down and singing songs of joy.  I look at what I have available to my disposal to review.  Here are real time examples of why things look different.

Ø  I have personally been involved with several transactions that have contracts within the first week of the listing.

Ø  The MLS show an increase of closed listings on a weekly basis.

Ø  The number of showings where Realtors place their cards is growing.

Ø  Realtors are advertising regularly. (this goes down when activity is low).

The market is far from hot and in fact will take a long time to get to that point again, but its like an earthquake, you can feel the pre-shocks!