Reprinted with permission from Chicago Title Insurance Company
A Good First Impression Can Help Sell Your Home
When you are showing your home to prospective buyers, first impressions are the most lasting and the most important to its sale.
Your major role as a seller will be to make your home as attractive as possible to potential buyers. The [...]
Yearly Archives: 2000
How to Help Your Home Sell
December 1, 2000 – 4:07 pm
California Foreclosures Down
December 1, 2000 – 4:06 pm
LA JOLLA, Calif. – (BUSINESS WIRE) – Nov. 10, 2000 – The number of California homes going into foreclosure continued to decline last quarter, the result of a strong economy and rising home values, a real estate information service reported.Lending institutions started foreclosure proceedings on 21,006 homeowners during the third quarter of this year. That [...]
Evaluating Your Associations, Part II
December 1, 2000 – 4:05 pm
Last month we took a look at the power of influence in our lives and how it is possible to be nudged off course a little at a time until finally, we find ourselves asking, “How did I get here?”
We then asked three key questions:
“Who am I around?” You’ve got to evaluate everybody who is [...]
Guarantees and the Anti-Deficiency Laws, Part 2
December 1, 2000 – 4:04 pm
In October’s Legal Corner, I discussed how the law prevents a person from being a guarantor of his or her own debt, and why this principle prevents the circumvention of the anti-deficiency. Simply stated, a creditor cannot get around the anti-deficiency laws by having the debtor sign a guaranty along with the note and deed [...]
So You Want to be a Pirate?
December 1, 2000 – 4:03 pm
As I’ve noted in past articles, the real estate market is “on fire” in many parts of the country, especially in California, where I live and work. Right now, it is very hard to buy property for wholesale prices. However, like in any market, there is never a time that it is easy to BOTH buy [...]
Back Door Investment Strategies
November 1, 2000 – 6:32 pm
This is the second of a four-part series, following an article in the October 2000 issue entitled “Your Market “Too Hot” to Find the Deals?“
The real estate market is “on fire” in many parts of the country, especially in California, where I live and work. Right now, it is very hard to buy property for [...]
When do you “Do-it-Yourself”
November 1, 2000 – 4:02 pm
Distressed property investing is all about buying “junkers,” fixing them up and then selling them for huge (we hope) profits. So when is it best to “Do-it-yourself?”
Fixing it up means increasing the property’s value by improving its appearance and enhancing its livability. Small do-it-yourself projects, such as painting a room or installing new flooring, don’t [...]
What Every Home Buyer and Seller Should Know About Title Insurance
November 1, 2000 – 4:01 pm
Reprinted with permission from Chicago Title Insurance Company
Most home sellers and buyers have been informed that obtaining title insurance will provide them necessary protection over possible title defects; but many remain uncertain about why this is so – or even about what title insurance is. At the Chicago Title and Trust Family of Companies, we believe [...]
Capital space race: Officials say region could get overbuilt
November 1, 2000 – 4:00 pm
By Bob Walter
Bee Staff Writer
(Published Sept. 29, 2000)
Is Sacramento’s latest commercial building boom leading to the kind of bust that followed an even bigger surge a decade ago?
Federal banking regulators warned this week that the capital region may be seeing too much of a good thing – again. And while most developers and brokerage [...]
Evaluating Your Associations
November 1, 2000 – 4:00 pm
If you were to evaluate the major influences in your life that have shaped the kind of person you are, this has to be high on the list: the people and thoughts you choose to allow into your life. Mr. Shoaff gave me a very important warning in those early days that I would like [...]
