Archive for July, 2009

Top 10 Home Inspection Defects to Watch For

By livingwellinsanmateo · July 30th, 2009

Q: What kind of physical defects should we be looking for when inspecting a San Mateo County home? A: What a great question. As REALTORS we take for granted that home buyers see what we do. This list will vary in different parts of the country, but we’ll focus on San Mateo County. As you [...]

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Why are There So Many Listings on Realtor.com?

By Rebecca Williamson · July 24th, 2009

Realtor.com is notorious for boasting how many listings they have on their site and driving consumers to use their site as their only home search site. Consumers see all the homes they have for sale, as compared to other home search sites and think Realtor.com must know of some properties that the other sites don’t. [...]

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First Time Home Buyer Seminar

By Rebecca Williamson · July 20th, 2009

Monthly we present a seminar series, Home Buying Tuesdays, to help educate San Mateo County home buyers so they can make an informed purchase decision about buying a home. Our next seminar is geared toward first time home buyers. Why First Time Home Buyers? First time home buyers have a tremendous opportunity to buy San [...]

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Stated Income Home Loans up to $3,000,000 Are Back!

By Raymond Stoklosa · July 16th, 2009

Update: Stated Loan Program Has Been Put on Hold Until Next Year If you would like to be notified when the stated home loan program is reinstated, please input your name and email into the form below and we’ll notify you as soon as we know more. Your Name(required) Email(valid email required) cforms contact [...]

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Real Estate Myth Busted: The Median Price is $765,000. I Can’t Afford to Buy

By Rebecca Williamson · July 13th, 2009

When you read the newspaper or watch TV, you hear reporters quoting the median home price in San Mateo County. Often, when this number is large, like it is in San Mateo County, people think they can’t afford to buy a home. The fact is the median price is simply the middle sales price of [...]

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