Unemployment, divorce, job transfer, death, financial crisis is finding many Raleigh homeowner’s struggling to make their mortgage payments. Mortgage payments are due by the first day of each calendar month. They are late on the 15th day of the month. After 15 days a late payment reminder letter arrives, after 30 days it is mortgage […]
Category Archives: Raleigh Short Sales and Foreclosures
Should Buyers Buy in a Buyers Market?
Interest rates are below 5%, there is a surplus of housing which gives buyers unbelivable choices, sellers are motivated to sell and are pricing realistically and are still negotiating even lower than list price…Sounds like a fabulous buyers market to me and buyers should buy. Right? But, here it is January 2009 and buyers who […]
Safety for Raleigh Home Owners
Today I heard that WRAL- Channel 5 -would be featuring a story on the potential danger home owners face when allowing strangers into their home when they are selling it themselves. As Agents we take this matter very seriously. Some of you may remember several years ago when a real estate agent in the Fayetteville […]
Raleigh Has A Growing Number of Homes in Foreclosure
Every day I watch and the number of new listings, price reductions and failed listing in the Raleigh real estate market. It is very concerning to me as I see our historically safe real estate market falling and our personal equity investment decreasing. Although Raleigh home prices have not fallen to the extent other areas […]
The Raleigh Real Estate Market is Causing Unbearable Stress and Heartache For Many Families.
The Raleigh Real Estate market is causing unbearable stress and heartache for many families. Many Raleigh homeowners’ are losing their homes to foreclosure because their anticipated income did not keep pace with their adjustable rate mortgages and inflation. Many people in this position call a REALTOR to help them sell their homes only to discover […]
Staging Your House to Sell
Many people ask me weekly “What do I need to do to sell my home?” Buyers purchase homes with emotion. So, one of the things you have to do is stage your home to capture emotions. There is a big difference between staging a house to sell and decorating a home. When you decorate you fill […]
Raleigh REALTOR Earns Certified Distressed Property Expert Designation
RALEIGH, N.C. Linda Craft and Team REALTORS® announced today that Linda Craft has achieved the Certified Distressed Property Expert (CDPE) designation from the Distressed Property Institute. Craft is the first and only REALTOR® in Raleigh to receive the designation, joining only 1000 agents worldwide that have earned the certification. “Historically, a percentage of the real […]
Raleigh Homeowners Struggling With Their Real Estate Investment
My phone rings a lot with people who need to sell and have unbearable heartaches in their lives. Divorce, job loss, death, retirement loss, rising cost of living paralyzing cash flow and when you couple that with 2 years of a declining real estate market it has made me more than a REALTOR, I am […]
Saving Raleigh Homeowners From Foreclosure
One my best real estate days is when I can save a family from loosing their Raleigh home to foreclosure. Don’t get me wrong I love the natural high of negotiating a sale for one of my sellers or finding the right home for a buyer but, the family facing foreclosure is in crisis and […]
Raleigh Real Estate is Full of Great Deals
As of December 2008 the Raleigh real estate market has an average of 11 months absorption rate for homes in all price ranges. This means it is the absolute best time to buy because there are so many good homes to choose from. Right now Raleigh homes have very motivated sellers including: REO, short sales, […]