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How Much Should a Short Sale Cost?

by Jon Griffith December 28, 2009

What could be worse, in times of financial hardship, than receiving news from your real estate agent that his or her services will cost you, out of pocket, before any work begins? Now that would be adding insult to injury. In a normal real estate transaction, the cost to sell a home is typically on [...]

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Five Reasons to Avoid Foreclosure

by Jon Griffith December 26, 2009

Experiencing foreclosure is an extremely emotional event in one’s life. It ranks in the top 5 most-traumatic things that can happen to an individual. The ramifications of foreclosure reach much further than most people understand. Here are the top five reasons why avoiding foreclosure is the best choice you can make: Disclosure For the rest [...]

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Is it a Virus, Infection, or well what!

by Jon Griffith February 5, 2009

There’s a certain threshold in a given area regarding how much you should upgrade your home and how much it will make a difference in the competition. It would not make sense to put a $5000.00 stove in a $200,000 condomimium, etc. That’s just one example. So, when a prospective tenant or buyer is looking [...]

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What Does Escrow Mean?

by Jon Griffith August 1, 2008

Susan Gruenling in an article entitled Open Sesame, outlined what it means to “open escrow.”  As I was reading it, I was thinking about what the word Escrow really means and where it comes from, so I did a little research. If you ever learned Spanish, you probably remember that the verb to write is [...]

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Experience the Fourth Advantage

by Jon Griffith July 28, 2008

I know the market and our industry inside and out. After all that is what being an executive is all about.  Realty Executives agents average more years in the real estate profession and typically represent more buyers and sellers than the average agent.  The result?  The knowledge of what it takes to achieve the best [...]

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