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Can A Seller REALLY Enforce That The Buyer Not Resell For A Specific Period Of Time? A lot of the bank and government owned listings specify owner occupied only for the first couple weeks or for the first month. They require the buyer to sign a document that the house will be their primary residence [...]

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Michigan Foreclosures- New Buyer Fee to Consider It is customary in Michigan real estate transactions for the seller to pay the transfer tax- both state and county- to the tune of .86 of a per cent of the sale price. Bank owned homes backed by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have been exempt from this [...]

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Are Southeast MI Foreclosure Sales (Bank Owned Homes) REALLY The Best Deals? Sometimes they are. Some bank owned homes are in pristine condition. Sometimes. Most of the time they are rough. Often times they are not mortgageable. Often times once you pay cash (money that is not making money elsewhere) and then you put cash into [...]

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Buying a Forelcosure Home in Southeast Michigan Like with my short sale posts, I still haven’t organized my categories or tags for my foreclosure articles. So in the meantime I figured I’d cheat a bit and paste the links all in one post.   Why an Oakland County Michigan Foreclosure Listing May Not be The [...]

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Lake Orion Michigan 3rd Quarter Home Sales- Cold Hard Facts Refute Media Reports Regarding Foreclosures. Which is a fairly nice way of stating that, again, the main stream media is full of shit and spreading alarmist and untruthful information regarding the state of housing sales. I kept hearing all day how foreclosures in Michigan are [...]

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Is This a Trend? Clarkston Michigan Sales are Up AGAIN! Let’s hope it is. The past couple days I wrote similar posts for Lake Orion and Oxford. And today I’m happy to write that sales are up, AGAIN, in Clarkston Michigan. The median sales price was up for the first half of the year, up [...]

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It’s no big secret that Michigan residents in general have been going through some rough economic times. I say in general, because not everybody is hurting. But with unemployment/underemployment at 20% or more many Michiganders have felt a financial pinch. Some of that financial pinch shows in many of the houses that have sold in [...]

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Why an Oakland County Michigan Foreclosure Listing May Not be the Best “Deal” I often get inquiries from potential buyers who want to look at foreclosure listings. No short sales. No “regular” listing. Just foreclosures. Sometimes foreclosure listings in Oakland and Lapeer County Michigan are GREAT deals. Often times foreclosure listings are grossly under-priced. And [...]

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The Foreclosure Process in Southeast Michigan Many of the numbers the media likes to spout about homes going into foreclosure are a bit exaggerated. When you read about the number of homes in foreclosure the stats often quoted are the notices of foreclosure that have been served- not the new bank owned listings. There are [...]

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Oakland County Michigan Home Buyer- Find a Foreclosure Listing You Want? Jump on It! Dear Home Buyer, While it is true that we are currently in a buyers market here in Oakland County Michigan if you define a “buyer’s market” as follows: low prices, low interest rate. One thing that is strange about this market [...]

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