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Looking for real estate information? Articles on the home buying and selling process are here. What you need to know, from A to Z.

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Short sales in Phoenix are a fact of life. No one wants to short sale their home. But if you need to, you need to be informed. We can help.

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Thompson's Realty has agents all across the Phoenix metro area who are available to help you sell or purchase a home. From first time buyers to investors, we can help!

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Short Sale Seminar to be held in Phoenix on Thursday

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Thinking about short selling your Phoenix home? Have questions about the short sale process? This may be just the ticket (a free ticket mind you) that you have been looking for: Phoenix short sale panel for the public to include Thompson’s Realty agent Dean Ouellette. This Thursday the folks over at Shortsaleopedia are putting on [...]

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Three years ago today…

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Hard to believe it’s been three years… Please, don’t ever drink and drive.  

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Veterans Day 2011

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As you go about your day today, stop, pause and reflect on what this country’s men and women in uniform have sacrificed. The video below is of LTC Oliver North making an address at a NRA annual meeting in 2009. I don’t care what your political leanings are, or what your feelings are about Ollie [...]

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An Interview With Justin LaJoie on the Zillow Acquisition of Diverse Solutions

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Last week’s announcement that Zillow had acquired real estate search provider Diverse Solutions caused a bit of a stir across the real estate vertical. Much speculation ensued, along with the requisite Zillow bashing that seems to take place any time Zillow makes another splash in the industry. I’ve known the Diverse Solutions founder and CEO [...]

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Should I keep paying my rent? My Landlord is in foreclosure

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If you spend any amount of time perusing real estate question and answer forums, you will find an inordinate number of questions framed something like this: My rental is being foreclosed on, should I keep paying my rent? Or the slightly more hostile version: If my landlord isn’t making his mortgage payments, why should I [...]

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Specifying a Lender. Steering? Illegal? Or just Stupid?

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There was a “featured” post on Active Rain (a real estate blogging platform) today that discussed real estate listing agents placing certain requirements into the Multiple Listing Service (MLS). The article, titled Can the Listing Broker Specify the Lender?, (must be a logged in Active Rain member to access) expressed concern with what appears to [...]

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November is National Novel Writing Month. Taking the plunge.

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First, let me make this perfectly clear: This is all Elizabeth Newlin’s fault. For the past couple of years, I’ve pondered signing up for “NaNoWriMo” (NAtional NOvel WRIting MOnth), which is a… challenge? of sorts to write a 50,000 word novel during the month of November. The rules are simple — you can’t start writing [...]

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7 Habits of Highly Effective Home Buyers

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If you read the article published here last Thursday, 7 Habits of Highy Effective Home Sellers, then you probably saw this one coming… This time I’ll try not to leave one of the seven habits out. Though by accidentally doing that with the seller’s habits post, we got some outstanding contributions from readers. Be sure [...]

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Help for Underwater Homeowners in Arizona. New HARP / Making Home Affordable Rules

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HARP – the Home Affordable Refinance Program - is undergoing some much needed revisions to its eligibility criteria. Previously the program allowed some homeowners to refinance their existing mortgages up to 125% of the home’s value. For example, let’s say you owe $200,000 on your mortgage. Due to the dramatic drop in home values across the Valley [...]

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They say once you go Mac you never go back…

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Back in 1983 I was working as a process engineering technician in the semiconductor manufacturing industry and my cube mate, a brilliant engineer named Charlie Hong, brought in an Apple IIe. The thing was huge, with a monochrome monitor — green I think, maybe it was amber. I don’t recall exactly, after all,that was 28 [...]

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