The easiest listings to get are from people who have to move. People that have to move fall into several different categories. Relocating Found a house they want Financial hardship Vacant homes Finding a House They Want When people start the process of selling a home the first thing they do is to look at other homes to determine if there is anything that they …

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The easiest listings to get are from people who have to move. People that have to move fall into several different categories. Relocating Found a house they want Financial hardship Vacant homes Relocating People who are relocating are in a situation that many times requires that they sell their current home. Paying for two mortgages can strain or drain the savings of the homeowner. This …

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The quick and easy answer is yes they are harder to qualify today than they were back when lenders and buyers shared a phone call or two and the loan was approved and we were all at the closing table. At the time there were no qualifying parameters and a good strong breath was all that it took to qualify for a mortgage, regardless of …

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Doing the best for the market does not always mean achieving the best and highest price for a home. Sometimes it means getting the home off of the market and this helps the entire community. Home prices are based on the other homes in the market. For this reason a vacant home can have a dramatically negative effect on the rest of the neighborhood. Focusing …

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It has been understood by the most successful real estate agents that a niche is worth everything while trying to be everything to everyone is a task that few can accomplish. Being a foreclosure specialist is not as hard as we may think and it does not limit the real estate agent to only foreclosures. Identifying one’s self as a foreclosures specialist tells those that …

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We have all seen them. The houses that look like if they had a knife they would attack us. The houses that children’s nightmares are made of. These homes are not always a bad thing, especially if we know how to use a FHA 203k mortgage. A 203k mortgage is generally available for a home that requires more than $5000 or more in order to …

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Homes come in all shapes and sizes. They come in all types of designs and floor plans. They also come in all sorts of condition. Some are like magazine covers and some are more like a bad dream after a hurricane. Most are somewhere in the middle and we would like to buy them but they need our own special touch to make them our …

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If we were planning a trip to the grocery store we would probably have some sort of list of the items we want to buy as well as a rough idea of a budget we planned to spend on food that day. What we would not do is go to the grocery store and just put one of everything in our cart. That would not …

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As people can access a complete list of foreclosures from either their desk top or mobile devices using USHUD.com and we have had thousands of downloads from our app on both the major app stores we have been able to assist countless people get a list of foreclosures that are both accurate and free. We are happy to find that people using USHUD.com are connecting …

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The idea that USHUD.com only offers a free list of foreclosures is understandable but it is completely wrong. USHUD offers homes in the traditional resale market as well and there are no price limits. Just like foreclosures our conventional resale properties range from beginner homes to multimillion dollar homes. The focus is to provide whatever the home buyers are shopping for in one easy to …

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