by Athena Paquette | Aug 29, 2015 | Blog, Home Owners, Investors, Realtors
What a week! After last week’s stock market drama, the world economy and our stock market looked like they was headed for free fall. Then a new week begins. While stocks were still on the downtrend earlier this week, on the home front we had surprisingly good news....
by Athena Paquette | Aug 29, 2015 | Blog, Home Owners, Investors, Realtors
This week’s win was actually helping one of my realtor partners avoid disaster. They had an offer from a realtor whose lender was very inexperienced. They said that the buyer was getting an FHA loan. But when I double checked as part of my quality control process for...
by Athena Paquette | Aug 29, 2015 | Blog, Home Owners, Investors, Realtors
Your VA loan benefit can only be used once. FALSE! The VA allows the veteran to use their benefit as many times as they want as long as the guarantee is still enough to back the loan. Usually this means using the VA loan guarantee 2 to 3 times in their life for most...
by Athena Paquette | Aug 21, 2015 | Blog, Home Owners, Investors, Realtors
Buyer uses one of my favorite strategies to beat out an all cash buyer. This summer has been a robust seller’s market with first time buyers being all cash buyers in many cases. This makes it hard to look like an attractive, safe buyer with one’s $20k for a down when...
by Athena Paquette | Aug 21, 2015 | Blog, Home Owners, Investors, Realtors
You have to sell, and close escrow on your current house before you can buy another house. FALSE! While it’s true that in a seller’s market that you should make a non-contingent offer so that you look as strong as possible, and so the seller does not worry about your...
by Athena Paquette | Aug 21, 2015 | Blog, Home Owners, Investors, Realtors
Town homes are like houses. TRUE… but they are legally condos. You may not have neighbors upstairs or downstairs, you may not even have any attached walls with the neighbors, but it still may be a condo. Many buyers think that a town home is a single family...
