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... 
by Jon Boyd | Jan 31, 2016 | Buyer Agency, Creative, Home Buying, Tech
Hey Real Estate Professionals – How about we all start to use some intelligent, useful, time-saving file names for all the scanned documents we are passing back and forth these days? Here is the problem: Every day I receive documents from lenders, title companies and... by Jon Boyd | Jan 31, 2016 | Appraisals, Buyer Agency, Home Buying, Home Inspection, Home Ownership, Mortgages, Seasonal, Tech, Ventilation, Windows
It is funny what you learn and when you learn it in the real estate business. As an exclusive buyer agent, I’ve been in thousands of homes with new or updated windows. In fact, window discussions are very common for us because it does have a significant impact on the... by Jon Boyd | Jan 30, 2016 | Buyer Agency, Home Buying, Home Ownership, Moving
As time goes by a lot of good information can get lost on the internet. This is a press release from NAEBA in August of 2004 that covers the intentional effort of many state REALTOR associations (Including ours here in Michigan) to confuse and mislead buyers about... 