Here at Intero, we have a charitable foundation (the Intero Foundation), fully funded by the agents at Intero, whose goal is to positively impact the well being of children in the communities in which we work, by supporting organizations focused on assisting in their education and personal development. Last Monday, we presented a check for [...]
The SAMCAR Foundation, the philanthropic arm of the San Mateo County Association of REALTORS® – of which yours truly is a member, announced their third quarter 2010 grant recipients recently and awarded three organizations $12,500 in grant monies. The Foundation provided $5000 grants to both Habitat for Humanity and Shelter Network to support the work they do in [...]
There’s a polarizing issue in the Highlands Park neighborhood of San Carlos these days, and it has to do with the potential to install artificial turf at the neighboring park. How does this affect homes and home values? Since everything under the sun has to be disclosed when selling a house, here’s a simplified after-effect of [...]
One of the most critical things when getting your mortgage to purchase a home is the loan contingency. Speaking from recent experience, and understanding the new reality of overly scrutinizing lenders, here are Ed’s must-know things when it comes to loan contingencies: Don’t Take Shortcuts Firstly, please, please, please, for the love of God, work [...]
No, I’m not ultra-productive tonight. I’m not churning out nine blog posts in a matter of hours. Oh, if only I could though, then I could remove “part-time procrastinator” from my resume’. Seems that in the process of moving my Gory Details Blog from TypePad over to WordPress (all coinciding with my recently redesigned www.EdGory.com), [...]
Doesn’t matter whether it’s a Buyer’s Market, or a Seller’s Market. Lowball offers are as old as the oldest profession. Let’s say you just received an offer from someone who wants to buy your home. You’re excited and relieved, until you realize the offer is an unrealistic lowball price. Insulted? Disappointed? How should you respond [...]
As the first and longest running real estate podcast in the SF Bay Area, The Gory Details is back again for its next monthly installment of 2010. In this episode, Ed interviews Adam O’Donnell from WJ Bradley Company, a mortgage banking firm that truly knows that there is more to home financing than simply securing [...]
Yes, it’s FINALLY back – the first and longest running real estate podcast in the SF Bay Area – the Gory Details, is back again for its first monthly installment of 2010. In this episode, I interview the always entertaining, highly regarded speaker Carole Rodoni, to discuss the current state of affairs in today’s real [...]
It’s safe to say that mortgage interest rates have been at historic lows since the summer of ’09, mostly around and sometimes even under 5%. Currently, they’ve been floating around the 5 & 1/8% range. Part of the reason for these low rates has been because the Fed has been on a buying binge of [...]
Ok, so obviously there’s nothing in Les Propheties that I can think of that predicts any real estate market. But if I was Nostradamus, here’s what I’d predict: “ Your local housing market will be one of the following; up, down or the same.” Whoah, Ed….prolific yet prescient. How can you be so sure? Ok, [...]
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