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Are Buyers Getting Ripped Off with REO Escrow Fees?

Rhonda Porter on 12 14, 2011 | 23 Comments

[Warning: rant ahead]. Recently I've closed a couple of REO transactions lately where I've been dismayed at what the escrow companies are charging the buyers. They claim it's is warranted because o

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Is King County at 2001 or 2005 price levels?

ARDELL on 09 29, 2011 | 2 Comments

Is King County at 2001 or 2005 price levels?

Was reading the questions in the comments over on The_Tim's post about "The Bottom Falling Out on the Low Tier". That prompted me to run some numbers on two cities in King County. One of which is movi

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Seattle Eastside Housing – Buy or Wait?

ARDELL on 08 28, 2011 | 5 Comments

Seattle Eastside Housing - Buy or Wait? is a Google Query that directed someone from Bellevue over to my blog about ten minutes ago, looking for an answer to that question. Often people get confuse

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Are you buying in a “Financially Healthy” neighborhood?

ARDELL on 11 11, 2010 | 39 Comments

Are you buying in a

Foreclosures and Short Sales impact home values in the neighborhood, especially when there are 3 of them, and those three are the ONLY sales in the neighborhood in a 6 month rolling basis period of ti

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