Alain Pinel Is Back In Town… Intero Real Estate Services, Inc. the obvious choice for industry icon Alain Pinel, the renowned real estate entrepreneur whose name is on the façade of a leading national real estate company, has returned to Northern California and will serve as Senior Vice President and Managing Officer of Intero [...]
Recently, Governor Jerry Brown signed into law all of the five natural gas transmission pipeline safety bills passed this year by the Legislature. The new laws place California in the national forefront of pipeline safety awareness. In addition, the laws bring into sharper focus the lessons learned from the deadly gas transmission pipeline explosion [...]
File this under the Alannis Morrissette “isn’t it ironic” category. Founder and former CEO of ForSalebyOwner.com, Colby Sambrotto listed his 2,000 square foot New York condominium on his own through online classified ads and FSBO sites, but after six months, he opted to hire New York broker Jesse Buckler who immediately advised a price change [...]
I won’t pretend to know everything. But what I just saw right now made me laugh/squirm/say “WTF are you thinking?”. And I just had to write and rant. For anyone who knows me, knows I’m not a big believer of print advertising in the real estate world. When over 80% of potential buyers get their [...]
In perusing the vast swath of RE articles on Alltop, I am always amused/perplexed/stupefied by the contradicting reports on housing predictions. Here’s two examples — which one do you side with? “Experts Say Housing Recovery is Still Years Away” versus “58% of Americans Expect Housing Market to Recover After 2012″ Good heavens! Who’s right here? American [...]
As the first and longest running real estate podcast in the SF Bay Area, The Gory Details is back in October for its next installment of 2010. In this episode, Ed interviews the one, the only, Carole Rodoni. Carole is formerly president of Fox and Carskadon Realtors, COO of Cornish & Carey Real Estate, President [...]
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), [...]
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 [...]
Good article in the WSJ about how lenders might actually be checking your credit on closing day, hence advising would-be benefactors of the $8000 first time homebuyer tax credit to NOT buy stuff until after you close. Here’s some more of the good snippets from the article: With the deadline on the first-time home buyer [...]
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