Dear Loan Underwriters – Please stop asking for pointless, time wasting minutiae

September 28, 2009 Comments

From the “Huh?” files comes this request from a client’s loan underwriter:
Please provide the following:
1) Fully completed and executed Lead Based Paint Notice to Purchase Agreement.
Of note, the home being purchased was built in the year 2000. Lead based paint ceased to be manufactured in this county c. 1978. The Residential Lead-Based Paint Hazard Reduction [...]

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Thompson’s Realty Welcomes Shar Rundio!

September 25, 2009 Comments

“Thrilled” may not be a strong enough word to describe my feelings in announcing Shar Rundio has joined our growing family at Thompson’s Realty. Let’s try “jubilant”. Those that know Shar understand she is smart, funny, hard working and treats her clients the way they should be treated.
She’s a perfect fit for what we [...]

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You’re Fired!

September 24, 2009 Comments

If you have ever been a boss in Corporate America before, chances are that you have had the privilege of sitting down and having the “it just isn’t working out” conversation with one of your employees.
Or maybe you have even been lucky enough to be on the receiving end of one of these conversations [...]

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An Open Letter to Manuel Contreras-Galdean

September 23, 2009 Comments

Mr. Contreras-Galdean:
On November 15, 2008, you killed Kelly Tracy. Kelly was 16 years old when you decided to get behind the wheel of a car with a blood alcohol level of 0.192 – more than twice the legal limit – at six-thirty in the morning.
This was, according to some reports, the third time you’ve been [...]

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Home Buyer Tax Credit Extension: Yet another bill introduced

September 21, 2009 Comments

UPDATE Nov 5, 2009: The Senate and House have both passed legislation extending and expanding the home buyers tax credit. See details here!
Back in June, I wrote an article, Homebuyer Tax Credit to be Extended? Expanded? That article linked to five bills that were circulating in the House and Senate that would either extend [...]

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Hosting Change on Phoenix Real Estate Guy

September 19, 2009 Comments

I just flipped the big virtual switch. We’re now hosted with Rackspace Cloud.
The name servers could take a day or so to propagate, so you could be served up from either Media Temple or Rackspace over the weekend. This could produce some wonkyness in regards to comments – if someone gets the MT version [...]

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Huntington National Bank: Are you freaking kidding me? From deep with the WTF files

September 18, 2009 Comments

Dear Huntington National Bank -
The addendum you are requiring potential home buyers to sign before you will even look at their offer is, in my opinion, ludicrous and borders on criminal.
I’ve seen a lot of banks put a lot of asinine things in their addendums that makes me question whether you people have a [...]

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What You Won’t Learn By Watching TV

September 17, 2009 Comments

How to get the best deal on a mortgage and what questions you should ask your loan officer. What you won’t learn by watching TV.

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Want a Ubertor Website for a Year? For a DOLLAR?

September 15, 2009 Comments

Thanks to the folks at Ubertor, a terrific real estate web site provider, not one, not two, but THREE lucky readers of Phoenix Real Estate Guy will get a complete Ubertor Premium site for a year for the ridiculous price of one dollar.
That’s no typo.
Win a website for a year for a [...]

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Thompson’s Realty Welcomes Nancy Hawkes

September 14, 2009 Comments

Ever meet someone and just think, “I like this person”? Sometimes you can’t even really place exactly why, you just know it when you meet them?
Well, that’s Nancy Hawkes, the latest addition to the growing family at Thompson’s Realty.
She didn’t want to do it, but here’s Nancy in her own words:
Nancy Hawkes [...]

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Susan Boyle’s First Single – Wild Horses

September 13, 2009 Comments

Now here’s something *completely* non-real estate related…
If you’ve been connected at all to the Internet over the last six months or so, you’ve probably heard of Susan Boyle. The runner-up in Britain’s Got Talent TV show has an AMAZING voice. Her YouTube performance from episode 1 of BGT has been viewed over 29 million times.
Her [...]

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