by Jon Boyd | Jan 31, 2016 | Creative, Electrical, Home Ownership, Tech
I was visiting a friend’s home this weekend and he showed me what the dish service people did for his mounting. He lives in an area where roof mounting isn’t practical, and wall mounting won’t work because of the type of construction of his home. So the... by Jon Boyd | Jan 31, 2016 | Appraisals, Buyer Agency, Home Buying, Home Inspection, Home Ownership
Being an expert involved with the National Association of Exclusive Buyer Agents (naeba.org) has given me some interesting national exposure. A month or so ago I spoke Jay MacDonald of Bankrate.com about the exaggerations we see in the listing information. As the Ann... by Jon Boyd | Jan 31, 2016 | Buyer Agency, Home Buying, Home Ownership, Mortgages
It is funny how much we depend on technology in the Ann Arbor real estate business these days. About an hour ago I started having problems with our MLXchange system. (That is the database of property used by the Ann Arbor Area Board of REALTORS.) Today the MLXchange... by Jon Boyd | Jan 31, 2016 | Buyer Agency, Home Buying, Moving
I just read an interesting post a real estate blog called Active Rain, on the private “Member Only” side. It was about a real estate agent bringing in an offer from a buyer and trying to get the listing agent to respond in a professional way. This is certainly a... by Jon Boyd | Jan 31, 2016 | Buyer Agency, Home Buying
I received another call yesterday from a frustrated home buyer. This young man had been working with a real estate agent from one of the big five firms here and he really felt he wasn’t getting his questions answered. He wasn’t even sure he knew what questions he... 