Yes, remote work offers many advantages, but a little known condition known as “felinekeyboarditis” has become rampant! Symptoms typically arise when you’ve been at the keyboard for an extended period and a certain someone feels somewhat neglected, or when it’s a little cool inside and it’...
How many times have you been told “Well, it’s a good news bad news thing we’ve got here…”? Just two months ago the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) Fair Housing Market Index set a record with a score of 90 after being stuck at or around 75 before the pandemic struck. In January...
At some point nearly everyone had that piece of gym apparatus that became a clothes drying rack, a storage shelf, or somehow morphed in to a piece of modern art. And then came covid. Even with the vaccine rollout and treatment options getting better as we learn more about that literally every day, i...
Every once in a while we like to give ourselves a pat on the back, not vey often, but in this case we feel like we’ve earned it. Long before the phenomenon we all now know as “covid” we wrote about another potential phenomenon. Yep, you guessed it…build-to-rent. The concept is the same as ap...
What’s this? A common sense approach to a critical, and often cumbersome part of a real estate transaction, the appraisal. Ahead of their “coming out party” on Wall Street, United Wholesale Mortgage (UWM) is now rolling out their “Appraisal Promise” program which, in short, states that if ...
Well as 2021 begins, the same problems that plagued 2020 are still present in the real estate market; more demand than supply and low rates keeping prices high. Now a once formerly “hard to imagine” scenario is regularly discussed…once a Seller has accepted an offer, can a higher offer then be...
Here at PropertyGuerilla.com, one of our goals besides offering a direct conduit for communication between all interested real estate parties is to also be a conduit of information, and offer clarity whenever possible. There’s no doubt the terms in the supporting article are super important, espec...
Well, here we are in 2021 and it seems that this age old question keeps resurfacing about going it alone when buying a home or property. We’ve addressed this before and the conclusion is the same…it depends on the person; Buyer, Investor, or whomever and their ability to deal with the complexity...
Like every story, there are two sides to every one including the one surrounding real estate in 2020. Early predictions for the fate of real estate when the pandemic became “real” in early March were dire, yet the exact opposite happened due to some swift Government action resulting in historica...
We’ve said it before and we’ll say it again, buying and selling real estate is complicated, cumbersome, and is not as as they make it look on television! In many States, particularly in the south, southwest, and western areas of the United States it is commonplace for Buyers and Sellers NOT to u...
Congratulations! Your home is under contract! Incredibly and historically low interest rates and near all time low inventory levels usually mean…higher prices! Guess what? 2020 is no different because those two factors have lead to price increases across the board. Great news for sellers, great ne...
Right now, and for the past several months, the housing market has been a beacon on the overall economy. As a result of historic low interest rates which have been spurred by economic recovery efforts put forth by The Fed (Federal Reserve Board) due to the covid pandemic, this has had a not so surpr...
Politicians have talked for years about the racial wealth gap and how to help overcome it with varying measures of both success and failure. Home equity accounts for nearly one quarter of net worth which as of 2019 for white families stood at 8 times that of black families and 5 times than Hispanic ...
According to the National Association of Realtors® 2020 Profile of Buyers and Sellers, only 6% of Buyers purchased a home without using the services of a Realtor®. Thought it would be more? Surprise! When we created PropertyGuerilla.com it was done not to eliminate Realtors® (in fact we strongly ...
As the Nations continues to struggle with the pandemic, mortgage interest rates continue to make historic lows and everything in real estate seems peachy. Did you know that the GSE’s known as Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (FNMA, FMCC) are STILL in conservatorship since placed there September of 2008?...
Usually, when we read stories about the age-old war of “rent vs. own” we read it and much of it makes sense and brings up good arguments for both. Remember we said “usually”. In this case, the Financial Planner cited only her story of her individual experience and has declared that renting i...
For the 5th consecutive year, the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) has raised the conforming loan limits of Fannie Mae (FNMA) and Freddie Mac (FMCC) by 7.5% over last years limit to $548, 250. Great news for home buyers as well as sellers in a very competitive market driven by historically low ...
If there were ever a sign that it is the year 2020, this may just well be it. The Department of Justice (DOJ) has filed an anti-trust lawsuit invoking, among other allegations, the “Sherman Act” against the National Association of Realtors® (NAR). This likely comes as no surprise as similar cla...
With real estate markets still simmering just about everywhere, several fair housing groups have filed a lawsuit against Redfin® the discount brokerage started in 2006 and now serving over 90 major metro markets. The gist of the lawsuit states that the real estate giant is guilty of and continues t...
First we’d like to start by saying…never mind (but you know what it was going to be). Real estate giant Zillow® took the online real estate industry by storm and essentially replaced Realtor.com as the “go to” place for Realtors®, Agents, and consumers to preview real estate. Everything wa...