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 [...]
Monthly Archives: December 2000
How to Help Your Home Sell
California Foreclosures Down
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
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
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?
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 [...]