Todays trivia question: What area in the U.S. that is now famous for extremely high property values was used to grow lima beans in the early 1900’s? Click on the comments below to see the answer.
Month: January 2011
Today’s term is Private Mortgage Insurance (PMI): Specialty insurance paid by a borrower monthly, generally when the amount borrowed exceeds 80 percent of the properties value.
Here’s todays tip: If you’re thinking about selling your home, you need to figure how much your home is worth today to determine if it would be worthwhile. A real estate agent such as myself can give you a free Comparative Market
Here’s my weekly trivia question: Who is the world’s largest landowner? Please post your guesses as comments and I’ll post the answer tomorrow as a comment.
The National Association of REALTORS® just posted some good economic news today. Existing-home sales were up 12.3 percent for December, though they are still 2.9 percent down from sales last year. I’ve been seeing a big improvement in the Longview market as
Every Wednesday I will define a Real Estate term. Todays word is Listing: A listing is a brokers written agreement to represent a seller and their property. Agents use the term to refer to their inventory of agreements with sellers.
Every Tuesday I will be posting a new Real Estate tip. Feel free to comment on them! Todays tip: When buying a home, both the buyer’s and seller’s agents commission is usually paid for by the seller. Occasionally when the house is
I have been interested in helping out in my community for some time now. God seems to be leading me towards Habitat for Humanity, so I am going to start volunteering there on Jan. 27th. I’m looking forward to getting to know
We finally got some snow in Longview yesterday! My church cancelled evening services and Christian Heritage School(where Lindsay teaches) didn’t start till 10AM this morning. On Saturday, when I was at the office I got a call from a couple standing in
If you don’t plan your work or your life, how is it going to become what you want it to be? I’m working on setting goals for myself so that I can be headed in the right direction in 2011. In our