Real Estate

Trying to buy a home from a trustworthy agent. Please help

john seal at purkey real estate

jones or tayler county txas. this is near abilene texas

Go to the county office, the county secretary or clerk should be able to help you. They usually have a lot of properties left over after the tax auctions. I’m about to start purchasing some of these homes myself from different counties. I hope this helps you

Looking for information to file a complaint against a realtor in Indiana. I believe this realtor has violated the code of ethics. Please help or advise in any way you can. Thanks in advance.

This is the way to file a complaint against any one who deals in contracts or business… Call the State Attorney Generals Office and request a complaint form from the Comsumer Protection Dept. They will send you a form to fill out and return in the snail mail, included with the form will be the instructions on how to fill the form out. Be clear and concise with your information and have evidence available when they request it. If you are not completely satisfied with this answer there are some other route that you can take such as filing a complaint with the State Board of Realtors just to mention a few. Good luck with your endeavor.

I do not want to tell him.."I feel you were pushy and I want another realtor." (We are disagreeing a lot and i am tired of it).
Will he just "let it be?"or will he call me??
Realtors please!! Thanks!

If the listing contract has expired then you can shop around for another realtor. Otherwise call the realtor’s broker and explain things to the broker.

How good it would be to buy a residential property in Ahmedabad in term of investment?

Hi,
If you mean expensive (=costly) cities, two cities of Gujarat figure in the top ten list. Ahmedabad and Surat both are included in the list.

Everyone has heard this…

"Earn license in just 2 months!!!"

I have learned that anything worth having takes a lot of work and that doesn’t seem like a lot compared to taking the college courses which could be over a year in some cases. So are these schools legit? What is the difference between traditional colleges that take longer and the "fast" way?
If possible, what would be best for me? I barely graduated high school, have done some college, support myself, with a great but full time job. Now I feel it’s time to get into being an entrepreneur and I want to work fast (I want to start very young). Money is no object, I will figure out a way to make it work if it is a good investment in the long run…

Well, if you are looking to being an entrepreneur getting a real estate license is not the way. It is really easy to get the license, but you have to work for a broker, you just don’t go out on your own and start selling houses.

The schools are mostly legit, they prepare you for the test. In CA you only have to get 60% of the answers right to pass. You can pass by simply guessing.

If you are serious about being an entrepreneur you should think about getting a regular 4 year degree in business. You can’t learn the skills you will need to start and run your own business in a 1 year class.

I’ve been doing quite a lot of apartment searching, both on my own and through a realtor. A few days ago, I come across a website of a management company with a number of apartments that look nice, so I fill out an inquiry directly to the company to hear more about them.

Afterward, I meet up with a realtor to see a few apartments she’s representing. Before we go see anything, my fiancee and I of course have to sign the standard form stating that the realty is "introducing us to properties, owners, and management companies" and that if we rent with one of them, we’re obligated to pay the realty a fee of one month’s rent.

So she shows us a few places, one of which is owned by the management company I had mentioned finding earlier on my own. Ironically enough, none of the keys to the unit work, so we don’t get past the lobby.

Today I hear back from the company who will show us some places tomorrow. If I sign a lease with the company rep tomorrow, will I have to pay a fee?

Read your copy of the agreement that you signed. That will tell you a lot — then find out from your agent if the management company where you are going to rent will pay her commission. The answer will probably be a yes and everyone will be happy. If they don’t cooperate with Brokers then you will need to comply with the agreement that you signed.

do realestate have anything to doo with make…4 example..the person thats selling the house do they have to deal with math?

no, you don’t really need to know that much math. you will have to MEMORIZE things such as how many feet are in a mile, but only for the real estate exam.

marketing real estate SHOULD involve you really and truly wanting to help PEOPLE. some of that will require you to learn a few little math tricks, but you just buy a calculator and have the mortgage broker that you like, who is reputable and caring also, give you a little card that will give you applicable rates, so it’s easy to figure out the principal and interest charges on a mortgage per month. it is so easy!

as for comparables: the computer does all the work. you have to get to know the BUSINESS of selling real estate, which has everything to do with people skills and high ethics. your business will be easy if you attain a good reputation immediately. your clients will send you clients (ask them to), and so on. then you do not always have to search for new business.

the real estate field is only this: service, service, service for people, people, people, who want location, location, location. that is all it is. the better you understand that, the better you will be in the business. if you need to understand math for some client’s question, you tell him you don’t know the answer right then and there, but will be happy to call him immediately after you talk to your manager. the broker manager where you work will show you how to calculate whatever figure he wants. then you call him, that same day, with what you promised you’d get for him. that is called SERVICE.

ethics come into play because the most important thing for you to do as an agent is to act as an AGENT (look that word up in a few dictionaries). that means that you always put the interests of your client ahead of your own. you protect your client, who is sometimes a seller and sometimes a buyer, and occasionally (this one can be tough) a dual agent for both parties. you get help from your managing broker in such a situation and handle it carefully. remember: it is the client that counts. you will count soon enough, when you close the deal, but before then, all that counts is your service to your client.

i wish you all the luck i can! this is a very stressful business. you never know from one year to the next how you will continue to live. some years are lean, some are fatty. save money from those that are fatty!

i just got my real estate license and i live in redding california the housing market id really bad and im struggling to make it so i am thinking of trying motgage work and wondering if it is comission only just like what i get paid now i dont like it it is so stressfull if any one knows please tell me thank you verry much

Now is the worst time to go into real estate. Companies that were doing 200 loans a month are struggling to do 50. The wholesale lenders that mortgage brokers send their loans, they are closing their doors left and right. Two closed this week alone and it’s only Wednesday when I posted this response. Realtors can’t sell anything and nobody can qualify to buy.

Save yourself misery and get a real job!

unpermited add on’s and coversions. i just found this out. i have about a 500 neg cash flow on it and im guessing its gonna cost big money to get the changes legal and permitted. im thinking of giving up the property to the mortgage company. what are my options?
the county is aware of it.

Is the county telling you to fix it? Before you consider giving it up, get some estimates on bringing your home up to code. It may seem like alot of changes/modifications, but an estimate will give you a clear picture of whether it’s worth keeping your home or not. Generally it’s not all that much to get an addition/modification permitted if the addition was done properly.The market won’t stay this way forever, and homes generally increase in value over time, so you may find out that your best bet would be to hang in there, get those estimates, see if the county will give you time (if they’re harassing you about it), and see if a lender or your lender might work with getting you the money you may need to make the needed corrections. Otherwise, if the county is not pushing the issue, make the corrections as you can afford to. A house up to code is worth more than a house that isn’t. If you have equity in your home and can afford to refi, then it might be a good idea to do so and keep your home. To do a deed in lieu of foreclosure is what I’m thinking you’re thinking, where you hand the keys to your lender and walk away from the home, but that is a decision the lender would make, and at this time many lenders are trying to have their clients stay in their homes rather than take them back. Lenders generally don’t want the hassle and expense of trying to resell the home. A foreclosure would mess you up big time with your credit. It would take at least 2 years before you could try again to get a home. Hope this helps, good luck