Real Estate

What are some sites that are good… is mls.ca the only one? Does Canada have a site like realestate.com.au to search for homes.. with lots of pictures etc…

Call an agent! Why not have someone who knows what their doing, do the work for you.

They are putting a lock box on the door for the realestate company to show the house and want us the leave when they show it. Can she do this to us?

Michelle, they cannot put a lock box on your door, as that is a dead give-away that the house is for sale and may be vacant. It also gives you no knowledge of who or when someone enters your home when you are not at home, with the key in that box. That puts you at a greater risk for break-ins and burglaries. Even long-term commercial leases specify that a landlord can only put a for sale/lease sign on the property in the last few months of the lease (number of months specified in lease) after either you or your landlord have indicated that the lease will not be renewed.

The landlord has no right to simply give you 24 hour notice to show the house to prospective buyers, unless such right is specified in the lease and I have never seen that. Most residential leases (about 95%) are prepared on standard forms written by lawyers for the state or national associations of Realtors or that of Professional Publishing Corp. (check in a top corner or at the bottom of the page, especially the last page of the lease for any copyright) and none that I know of or have seen had and any such ornery provision.

The landlord or his agent have the right to enter when you requested a repair to be made at the dwelling, or in case of a bona-fide emergency when you are not at home. The landlord or his agent have the right to periodic inspections, say once or at most twice a year. The courts in the past have held that routine quarterly or more frequent inspections are unreasonable and unenforceable. So, you can agree with your landlord to allow an agent to show the house, but then you can also ask for a rent concession for that agreement because of the burdens imposed on you.

Your landlord can sell the home you have leased, but he can sell only a LEASED FEE estate and not grant a buyer FEE SIMPLE title. This sale will not affect or modify your rights under your lease, but you simply will get a new and substituted landlord. No paperwork is necessary for that, but the new owner has to advise you on where to send the rent check.

hello all,, i just became the new owner of a new property which i purchased as a short sale..the realestate person that sold it to me did not get the last owner to remove,,weeds,,junk,,junk and a large bus which is in backyard area …i do not know what to do???

You will probably have to follow the abandoned property laws of your state and county. You cannot get rid of ANYTHING until you’ve followed those laws EXACTLY. You can certainly move the items and store them in a secure location, but that’s the extent of it.

Most abandoned property laws are that you must attempt to contact the owner of the property and give them 30 days to get the items. You may also have to post public notice (like in the penny save or classifieds section). Once that time frame is up, you can do with them what you wish. I would probably post an ad in the newspaper & on craigslist saying "junk. free. u-haul." and then a short description of a the items. Post a photo (on CL) and after that, call some junk haulers to come get the bus and rent a dumpster to get rid of the rest.

You want us to do your homework for you? No way!

Just google "real estate, short sale" and you will get an excellent explanation of a ’short sale’ and it will be a learning process for you.

http://realestate.aol.com/listings-Oakland-CA#/sort-price/order-asc/page-11

I have been searching for a home in oakland CA because I heard of the high foreclosure rates, but it doesn’t make since that you could buy a home for $3,000.

What are the real prices of these homes?

Those look like they might be redemption prices, how much was not paid. Foreclosures sell for about 90% of fair market value.

Without addresses it is hard to tell what the real prices are, but I will see if I can find an example and post it.

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That took me awhile. They are pulling default notices and calling them foreclosures. Those homes are not for sale at all and have not been foreclosed on. The owners are late paying their mortgage, but that is the extent of it.

I found one real foreclosure, http://realestate.aol.com/foreclosures/Surrey_Ln-Oakland-CA-94605/4.32112323

However they are saying it is only 459,146 when the actual list price is $599,000

Listing the default notices seems to be a lure to get you to pay for information that is actualy free.

I want to give my Las Vegas Condo/Loft as much exposure as possible.

Free listing services are much preferred.

http://www.realtor.com/realestate/las+vegas-nv-89101-1091670662/

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www.trulia.com
www.zillow.com
www.craigslist.com

we were told it was stick built, today at the assessors office we find out its been placed in 1992, placed? we were told it was stick built? what can we do, its not energy efficennt like we believed a home in 1996 would be, we have done aton of work to this property, what can we expect? called attorney, is he good?

Did you get an appraisal and a building inspection? If you did, they would have easily discovered it.

If you didn’t, then that’s your fault.

Contracts don’t require that type of disclosure if the house was moved from another location.

Technically, it WAS stick built…just not where it is now.

With the housing market being so bad I see daily homes that should be listing for 99 to 125.000 being listed for 175.000 and the agent say well we will just come down. Well in a market that had supply and demand when the suppy is low you can demand but our market is reversed at the present time.

mike
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Buyers always want to negotiate down. So, if a seller lists his home higher than those around it and/or higher than what he actually really wants, he can afford to negotiate down and still get the amount of profit from the sale that he desires.

Also, in this market there are so many sellers that are having to short-sale their homes. They owe more than what the home is worth (and what others around them are worth), so they price high, hoping they can eke out every penny they can so that the gap when they sell is as small as possible.

Then there are foreclosures. Banks price foreclosures low, in order to get them to sell quickly, and there are tons of them now. The low price of a foreclosure can make a house next door that’s actually priced appropriately look as though it’s priced high.

Some sellers can afford to price their homes high and wait for them to sell, while others are desperate to get out and will take whatever they can get – whether it’s a fair price or not.

And also, it has a lot to do with how much the seller really knows about real estate. A seller that doesn’t know anything is likely to take the advice of the realtor. The realtor is also going to suggest the highest price possible in order to get a bigger commission.